עָצָרʻâtsâr

restrain, retain

Pronunciation: aw-tsar' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6113

Meanings

Qal

1. restrain (Genesis 16:2; Genesis 20:18; Isaiah 66:9)

2. retain (2 Chronicles 13:20; 2 Chronicles 22:9; Daniel 10:8)

Niph`al: be restrained, stayed, be shut up, be under restraint or detention (Numbers 17:15; 2 Samuel 24:27; 1 Chronicles 21:22)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 46 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 16:2 So Sarai said to Abram, “The Lord has prevented me from having children. Go and sleep with my servant. Perhaps I can have children through her.” And Abram agreed with Sarai’s proposal.
  • Genesis 20:18 For the Lord had caused all the women to be infertile because of what happened with Abraham’s wife, Sarah.
  • Numbers 16:48 He stood between the dead and the living, and the plague stopped.
  • Numbers 16:50 Then because the plague had stopped, Aaron returned to Moses at the entrance of the Tabernacle.
  • Numbers 25:8 and rushed after the man into his tent. Phinehas thrust the spear all the way through the man’s body and into the woman’s stomach. So the plague against the Israelites was stopped,
  • Deuteronomy 11:17 If you do, the Lord’s anger will burn against you. He will shut up the sky and hold back the rain, and the ground will fail to produce its harvests. Then you will quickly die in that good land the Lord is giving you.
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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).