עָצַר

a.tsar · to restrain

Hebrew · Strong's H6113 · Verb · Sounds like: aw-tsar' · 47 occurrences

Word meanings

Strong's dictionary

a primitive root; to inclose; by analogy, to hold back; also to maintain, rule, assemble; [idiom] be able, close up, detain, fast, keep (self close, still), prevail, recover, refrain, [idiom] reign, restrain, retain, shut (up), slack, stay, stop, withhold (self).

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)

Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
עָצַר 46 vb. restrain, retain
Qal
1. restrain
2. (late) retain
Niph. be restrained, stayed
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Every occurrence

  1. Numbers 16:48 וַתֵּעָצַ֖ר va.te.'a.Tzar · An action: receiving the action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.

  2. Numbers 16:50 נֶעֱצָֽרָה׃ פ ne.'e.Tza.rah · An action: receiving the action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    And Aaron returned unto Moses unto the door of the tent of meeting: and the plague was stayed.

  3. Numbers 25:8 וַתֵּֽעָצַר֙ va.te.'a.Tzar · An action: receiving the action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    and he went after the man of Israel into the pavilion, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her body. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.

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