נָטַרnâṭar

keep, (less common || of נָצַר)

Pronunciation: naw-tar' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5201

Meanings

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 9 times in the Bible.

  • Leviticus 19:18 “Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against a fellow Israelite, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord.
  • Psalms 103:9 He will not constantly accuse us, nor remain angry forever.
  • Song of Solomon 1:6 Don’t stare at me because I am dark— the sun has darkened my skin. My brothers were angry with me; they forced me to care for their vineyards, so I couldn’t care for myself—my own vineyard.
  • Song of Solomon 8:11 Solomon has a vineyard at Baal-hamon, which he leases out to tenant farmers. Each of them pays a thousand pieces of silver for harvesting its fruit.
  • Song of Solomon 8:12 But my vineyard is mine to give, and Solomon need not pay a thousand pieces of silver. But I will give two hundred pieces to those who care for its vines.
  • Jeremiah 3:5 Surely you won’t be angry forever! Surely you can forget about it!’ So you talk, but you keep on doing all the evil you can.”
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).