אָצַלʼâtsal

lay aside, reserve, withdraw, withhold

Pronunciation: aw-tsal' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H680

Meanings

Qal: reserve, set apart (Genesis 27:36; Ecclesiastes 2:10; Numbers 11:17)

Niph`al: be withdrawn (Ezekiel 42:6)

Hiph`il: = Qal (Numbers 11:25; Numbers 11:17)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 5 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 27:36 Esau exclaimed, “No wonder his name is Jacob, for now he has cheated me twice. First he took my rights as the firstborn, and now he has stolen my blessing. Oh, haven’t you saved even one blessing for me?”
  • Numbers 11:17 I will come down and talk to you there. I will take some of the Spirit that is upon you, and I will put the Spirit upon them also. They will bear the burden of the people along with you, so you will not have to carry it alone.
  • Numbers 11:25 And the Lord came down in the cloud and spoke to Moses. Then he gave the seventy elders the same Spirit that was upon Moses. And when the Spirit rested upon them, they prophesied. But this never happened again.
  • Ecclesiastes 2:10 Anything I wanted, I would take. I denied myself no pleasure. I even found great pleasure in hard work, a reward for all my labors.
  • Ezekiel 42:6 Since there were three levels and they did not have supporting columns as in the courtyards, each of the upper levels was set back from the level beneath it.

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).