עָצָר
ʻâtsâr · aw-tsar'
to inclose; by analogy, to hold back; also to maintain, rule, assemble
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to inclose; by analogy, to hold back; also to maintain, rule, assemble
- to inclose
- by analogy, to hold back
- also, to maintain, rule, assemble
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: [idiom] be able, close up, detain, fast, keep (self close, still), prevail, recover, refrain, [idiom] reign, restrain, retain, shut (up), slack, stay, stop, withhold (self).
Letters
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
- צTsade90
Picture: a person lying on their side (or a fish hook)
- Concrete
- hook · trail · side · a man bowed
- Extended
- to hunt · to pursue · need · righteousness as a straight path
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to see and know › to pursue the straight path › the head, the highest
To see and know that works to pursue the straight path of the head, the highest.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of עָצָר above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
47 occurrences · 47 OT · 0 NT · 39 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- was stayed5 · 15%
- and him that is shut up3 · 9%
- shut up2 · 6%
- may be stayed2 · 6%
- is shut up2 · 6%
- hath restrained me1 · 3%
- had fast1 · 3%
- closed up1 · 3%
- against you, and he shut up1 · 3%
- i pray thee, let us detain1 · 3%
- though thou detain1 · 3%
- to thee of! this same shall reign1 · 3%
- have been kept1 · 3%
- detained1 · 3%
- stop1 · 3%
- slack1 · 3%
- any shut up1 · 3%
- shut him up1 · 3%
- while he yet kept himself close1 · 3%
- that we should be1 · 3%
- but who is able1 · 3%
- i shut up1 · 3%
- recover1 · 3%
- prevail1 · 3%
- that they were not able1 · 3%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.