עָצַר atsar

Hebrew word for “to restrain” · Strong’s H6113 · used 46 times in 45 verses

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Meaning

1) to restrain, retain, close up, shut, withhold, refrain, stay, detain;

How it is translated

Glosses given for atsar in context, with how often each is used:

• shut up 10
• restrained 5
• retained 3
• will shut up 2
• may be restrained 2
• when are shut up 2
• will retain 2
• retain 2
• has restrained 1
• certainly 1
• had shut up 1
• had been restrained 1

Where it is used

Also in 4 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Numbers 16 (2), Judges 13 (2), 1 Samuel 21 (2), 2 Samuel 24 (2), Daniel 10 (2), Genesis 16 (1), Genesis 20 (1), Numbers 25 (1), Deuteronomy 11 (1), Deuteronomy 32 (1)

Forms

• עצור 8
• ותעצר 6
• עצר 4
• יעצר 4
• נעצרה 2
• ועצר 2
• נעצר 2
• בהעצר 2
• ועצור 2
• תעצר 2

Words used with it

Words that share verses with atsar more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• מַגֵּפָה maggephah “plague” 7
• כֹּחַ koach “strength” 8
• מָטַר matar “rain” 4
• שָׁתַן shatan “to urinate” 3
• עָזַב azav “to leave” 5
• בָּנָה banah “to build” 5
• שָׁמַיִם shamayim “heaven” 5
• אֲנִי ani “I” 6
• אִם im “if” 6
• קִיר qir “wall” 3
• הֵן hen “look!” 4
• עָזַר azar “to help” 3

Key verses

The verses using atsar that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Deuteronomy 32:36 — For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left.
• 1 Kings 8:35 — When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their…
• 1 Kings 14:10 — Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and…
• 1 Kings 21:21 — Behold, I will bring evil upon thee, and will take away thy posterity, and will cut off from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up…
• 1 Chronicles 29:14 — But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? for all things come of thee, and of thine own have we given…
• 2 Chronicles 2:6 — But who is able to build him an house, seeing the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain him? who am I then, that I should build him an house, save only…
• 2 Chronicles 6:26 — When the heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; yet if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn…
• 2 Chronicles 14:11 — And Asa cried unto the LORD his God, and said, LORD, it is nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no power: help us, O LORD our…
• Nehemiah 6:10 — Afterward I came unto the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabeel, who was shut up; and he said, Let us meet together in the house of God,…
• Jeremiah 20:9 — Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was…
• Daniel 10:8 — Therefore I was left alone, and saw this great vision, and there remained no strength in me: for my comeliness was turned in me into corruption, and I retained…
• Daniel 10:16 — And, behold, one like the similitude of the sons of men touched my lips: then I opened my mouth, and spake, and said unto him that stood before me, O my lord,…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.