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Lexicon :: Strong's H6113 - ʿāṣar

Aa
עָצַר
Transliteration
ʿāṣar
Pronunciation
aw-tsar'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 1675

Strong’s Definitions

עָצָר ʻâtsâr, aw-tsar'; a primitive root; to inclose; by analogy, to hold back; also to maintain, rule, assemble:—× be able, close up, detain, fast, keep (self close, still), prevail, recover, refrain, × reign, restrain, retain, shut (up), slack, stay, stop, withhold (self).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 46x

The KJV translates Strong's H6113 in the following manner: shut up (15x), stayed (7x), retain (3x), detain (3x), able (2x), withhold (2x), keep (2x), prevail (1x), recover (1x), refrained (1x), reign (1x), miscellaneous (8x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 46x
The KJV translates Strong's H6113 in the following manner: shut up (15x), stayed (7x), retain (3x), detain (3x), able (2x), withhold (2x), keep (2x), prevail (1x), recover (1x), refrained (1x), reign (1x), miscellaneous (8x).

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

    1. (Qal)

      1. to restrain, halt, stop

      2. to retain

    2. (Niphal) to be restrained, be stayed, be under restraint

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
עָצָר ʻâtsâr, aw-tsar'; a primitive root; to inclose; by analogy, to hold back; also to maintain, rule, assemble:—× be able, close up, detain, fast, keep (self close, still), prevail, recover, refrain, × reign, restrain, retain, shut (up), slack, stay, stop, withhold (self).
STRONGS H6113: Abbreviations
עָצַר 46 verb restrain, retain (Late Hebrew id.; compare probably Assyrian eṣêru, retain, restrain, DlHWB 122 JägerBAS i. 483 Zehnpfib. 500; Ethiopic bdb078307 press, Arabic bdb078308; Targum עֲצַר Syriac bdb078309 id.); **compare Assyrian uṣurtu, taboo SACJA, 1904, 754. —
Qal Perfect 3rd person masculine singular ע׳ Genesis 20:18 +, suffix עֲצָרַנִי Genesis 16:2; 1st person singular יָצַרְתִּי Daniel 10:8, 16; etc.; Imperfect 3rd person masculine singular יַעְצֹר 1 Samuel 9:17 +, יַעְצָרֿ 2 Chronicles 2:5; suffix יַעֲצָרְכָה 1 Kings 18:44, etc.; Infinitive absolute עָצֹר Genesis 20:18, construct לַעִצֹר 2 Chronicles 22:9, וַעְצֹר Job 4:2 (Ges§ 28 b); Passive participle עָצוּר Jeremiah 33:1 +, etc.; —
1. restrain, with accusative of person Genesis 16:2 (J; + מִן, i.e. prevent), עָצֹר עָצַר בְּעֵד כָּלרֶֿחֶם Genesis 20:18 (E), compare absolute Isaiah 66:9 (opposed to מוֺלִיד); followed by infinitive 2 Kings 4:24; with accusative of person alone 1 Kings 18:44 hinder, stop; with accusative of sky (hindering rain) Deuteronomy 11:17; 2 Chronicles 7:13; passive participle absolute shut up, or hindered (for reasons not given) Jeremiah 36:5; Nehemiah 6:10 (? by a vow, or by ceremonial uncleanness, compare RsSem i. 436 f., 2nd ed. 455 f.); = shut up (with ב, in prison) 2 Kings 17:4, passive participle Jeremiah 33:1; Jeremiah 39:15, figurative Jeremiah 20:9; on עָצוּר וְעָזוּב (5 times) see I. עזב; עֲצֻרָה לָנוּ 1 Samuel 21:6 women have been kept away with reference to us (compare RSl.c.); עָצוּר מִפְּנֵי 1 Chronicles 12:1 kept away from before Saul; = detain, with accusative Judges 13:15, 16; in Job with בְּ, בְּמִלִּין ע׳ Job 4:2, compare Job 29:9, so בַּמַּיִם Job 12:5; בְּעַמִּי ע׳ 1 Samuel 9:17 is rule over, etc. (si vera lectio); insert also (with other words) 1 Samuel 10:1 Greek Version of the LXX We Dr and others.
2. (late) retain, with accusative כֹּחַ 2 Chronicles 13:20; 22:9; Daniel 10:8, 16; Daniel 11:6; + infinitive = be able to 1 Chronicles 29:14; 2 Chronicles 2:5; omit כֹּחַ 2 Chronicles 14:10 (+ עִמְּךָ), 2 Chronicles 20:37 (+ infinitive).
† Niph. be restrained, stayed, of plague: Perfect 3rd person feminine singular נֶעֱצָ֑רָה Numbers 17:15 [Numbers 16:50]; Imperfect 3rd person feminine singular תֵּעָצַר 2 Samuel 24:21 = 1 Chronicles 21:22, וַתֵּעָצַר Numbers 17:13; Numbers 25:8 (P) 2 Samuel 24:25; Psalm 106:30; be shut up (of sky), Infinitive construct בְּהֵעָצֵר 1 Kings 8:35 2 Chronicles 6:26; be under restraint or detention Participle נֶעְצָר 1 Samuel 21:8 + לִפְחנֵי י׳ (? i.e. kept by a vow, compare HPS and Nehemiah 6:10 above).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

16:2; 16:2; 20:18; 20:18; 20:18

Numbers

16:50; 17:13; 25:8

Deuteronomy

11:17

Judges

13:15; 13:16

1 Samuel

9:17; 9:17; 10:1; 21:6; 21:8

2 Samuel

24:21; 24:25

1 Kings

8:35; 18:44; 18:44

2 Kings

4:24; 17:4

1 Chronicles

12:1; 21:22; 29:14

2 Chronicles

2:5; 2:5; 6:26; 7:13; 13:20; 14:10; 20:37; 22:9; 22:9

Nehemiah

6:10; 6:10

Job

4:2; 4:2; 12:5; 29:9

Psalms

106:30

Isaiah

66:9

Jeremiah

20:9; 33:1; 33:1; 36:5; 39:15

Daniel

10:8; 10:8; 10:16; 10:16; 11:6

H6113

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Strong's Number H6113 matches the Hebrew עָצַר (ʿāṣar),
which occurs 46 times in 45 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:2 - And Sarai said to Abram, See, the Lord has not let me have children; go in to my servant, for I may get a family through her. And Abram did as Sarai said.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:18 - For the Lord had kept all the women of the house of Abimelech from having children, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:48

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:48 - And he took his place between the dead and the living: and the disease was stopped.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:50

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:50 - Then Aaron went back to Moses to the door of the Tent of meeting: and the disease came to a stop.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:8 - And went after the man of Israel into the tent, driving the spear through the two of them, through the man of Israel and through the stomach of the woman. So the disease was stopped among the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:17 - For if you do so, the wrath of the Lord will be burning against you, and the heaven will be shut up so that there is no rain and the land will give no fruit; and in a very little time you will be cut off from the good land which the Lord is giving you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:36

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:36 - For the Lord will be judge of his people, he will have pity for his servants; when he sees that their power is gone, there is no one, shut up or free.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:15 - And Manoah said to the angel of the Lord, Now let us keep you while we make ready a young goat for you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:16 - And the angel of the Lord said to Manoah, Though you keep me I will not take of your food; but if you will make a burned offering, let it be offered to the Lord. For it had not come into Manoah's mind that he was the angel of the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:17 - And when Samuel saw Saul, the Lord said to him, This is the man of whom I gave you word! he it is who is to have authority over my people.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:5 - And David in answer said to the priest, Certainly women have been kept from us; and as has been done before when I have gone out the arms of the young men were made holy, even though it was a common journey; how much more today will their arms be made holy.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:7 - Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, kept back before the Lord; his name was Doeg, an Edomite, the strongest of Saul's runners.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:21 - And Araunah said, Why has my lord the king come to his servant? And David said, To give you a price for your grain-floor, so that I may put up an altar to the Lord, and the disease may be stopped among the people.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:25 - And there David put up an altar to the Lord, making burned offerings and peace-offerings. So the Lord gave ear to his prayer for the land, and the disease came to an end in Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:35

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:35 - When heaven is shut up and there is no rain, because of their sin against you; if they make prayers with their faces turned to this place, honouring your name and turning away from their sin when you send trouble on them:

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:10 - So I will send evil on the line of Jeroboam, cutting off from his family every male child, those who are shut up and those who go free in Israel; the family of Jeroboam will be brushed away like a man brushing away waste till it is all gone.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:44

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:44 - And the seventh time he said, I see a cloud coming up out of the sea, as small as a man's hand. Then he said, Go up and say to Ahab, Get your carriage ready and go down or the rain will keep you back.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:21 - See, I will send evil on you and put an end to you completely, cutting off from Ahab every male child, him who is shut up and him who goes free in Israel;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:24 - Then she made the ass ready and said to her servant, Keep driving on; do not make a stop without orders from me.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:8 - For the family of Ahab will come to an end; every male of Ahab's family will be cut off, he who is shut up and he who goes free in Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:26 - For the Lord saw how bitter was the trouble of Israel, and that everyone was cut off, he who was shut up and he who went free, and that Israel had no helper.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:4 - But Hoshea's broken faith became clear to the king of Assyria because he had sent representatives to So, king of Egypt, and did not send his offering to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year: so the king of Assyria had him shut up in prison and put in chains.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:1 - Now these are the men who came to David at Ziklag, while he was still shut up, because of Saul, the son of Kish; they were among the strong men, his helpers in war.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:22 - Then David said to Ornan, Give me the place where this grain-floor is, so that I may put up an altar here to the Lord: let me have it for its full price; so that this disease may be stopped among the people.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:14 - But who am I and what is my people, that we have power to give so freely in this way? for all things come from you, and what we have given you is yours.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:6 - But who may have strength enough to make a house for him, seeing that the heaven and the heaven of heavens are not wide enough to be his resting-place? who am I then to make a house for him? But I am building it only for the burning of perfume before him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:26 - When heaven is shut up and there is no rain, because of their sin against you: if they make prayers with their faces turned to this place, honouring your name and turning away from their sin when you send trouble on them:

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:13 - If, at my word, heaven is shut up, so that there is no rain, or if I send locusts on the land for its destruction, or if I send disease on my people;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:20 - And Jeroboam did not get back his power again in the life-time of Abijah; and the Lord sent death on him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:11 - And Asa made prayer to the Lord his God and said, Lord, you only are able to give help against the strong to him who has no strength; come to our help, O Lord our God, for our hope is in you, and in your name we have come out against this great army. O Lord, you are our God; let not man's power be greater than yours.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:37

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:37 - Then the word of Eliezer the prophet, the son of Dodavahu of Mareshah, came against Jehoshaphat, saying, Because you have let yourself be joined with Ahaziah, the Lord has sent destruction on your works. And the ships were broken and were not able to go to Tarshish.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 22:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 22:9 - And he went in search of Ahaziah; and when they came where he was, (for he was in a secret place in Samaria,) they took him to Jehu and put him to death; then they put his body to rest in the earth, for they said, He is the son of Jehoshaphat, whose heart was true to the Lord. So the family of Ahaziah had no power to keep the kingdom.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:10 - And I went to the house of Shemaiah, the son of Delaiah, the son of Mehetabel, who was shut up; and he said, Let us have a meeting in the house of God, inside the Temple, and let the doors be shut: for they will come to put you to death; truly, in the night they will come to put you to death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:2 - If one says a word, will it be a weariness to you? but who is able to keep from saying what is in his mind?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:15 - Truly, he keeps back the waters and they are dry; he sends them out and the earth is overturned.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:9 - The rulers kept quiet, and put their hands on their mouths;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:30

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:30 - Then Phinehas got up, and made prayer for them; and the disease went no farther.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:9 - Will I by whom the birth was started, not make it complete? says the Lord. Will I who make children come to birth, let them be kept back? says your God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:9 - And if I say, I will not keep him in mind, I will not say another word in his name; then it is in my heart like a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am tired of keeping myself in, I am not able to do it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:1 - Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the second time, while he was still shut up in the place of the armed watchmen, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:5 - And Jeremiah gave orders to Baruch, saying, I am shut up, and am not able to go into the house of the Lord:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 39:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 39:15 - Now the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah while he was shut up in the place of the armed watchmen, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 10:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 10:8 - So I was by myself, and I saw this great vision, and all my strength went from me; and the colour went from my face.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 10:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 10:16 - Then one whose form was like the sons of men put his finger on my lips; and opening my mouth, I said to him who was before me, O my lord, because of the vision my pains have come on me, and I have no more strength.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:6 - And at the end of years they will be joined together; and the daughter of the king of the south will come to the king of the north to make an agreement: but she will not keep the strength of her arm; and his offspring will not keep their place; but she will be uprooted, with those who were the cause of her coming, and her son, and he who took her in those times.
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