Hebrew Word Study · Strong’s H5341
נָצַר
na.tsar · “to watch”
Used 63 times across 10 books
Definition
1) to guard, watch, watch over, keep
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to watch, guard, keep
1a2) to preserve, guard from dangers
1a3) to keep, observe, guard with fidelity
1a4) to guard, keep secret
1a5) to be kept close, be blockaded
1a6) watchman (participle)
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to watch, guard, keep
1a2) to preserve, guard from dangers
1a3) to keep, observe, guard with fidelity
1a4) to guard, keep secret
1a5) to be kept close, be blockaded
1a6) watchman (participle)
Where it appears
Exodus1
Deuteronomy2
2 Kings2
Job2
Psalms24
Proverbs19
Isaiah9
Jeremiah2
Ezekiel1
Nahum1
In the text
Exodus 34:7Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.Deuteronomy 32:10He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.Deuteronomy 33:9Who said unto his father and to his mother, I have not seen him; neither did he acknowledge his brethren, nor knew his own children: for they have observed thy word, and kept thy covenant.2 Kings 17:9And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the Lord their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.2 Kings 18:8He smote the Philistines, even unto Gaza, and the borders thereof, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.Job 7:20I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?Job 27:18He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth that the keeper maketh.Psalms 12:8The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted.Psalms 25:10All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.Psalms 25:21Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee.
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