H5341: נָצַר
nâtsar · pronounced naw-tsar' · “to watch”
Definition
to guard, in a good sense (to protect, maintain, obey, etc.) or a bad one (to conceal, etc.)
KJV translates it as: besieged, hidden thing, keep(-er, -ing), monument, observe, preserve(-r), subtil, watcher(-man).
Word origin: a primitive root;
Extended definition
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)
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H5341 is translated
- me ×5
- you ×4
- it ×3
- watchmen ×3
- keep ×3
- guard ×3
- one who guards ×3
- him ×2
- they will observe ×2
- i observe ×2
- let me observe ×2
- i have observed ×2
Bible verses with H5341 (nâtsar)
Nâtsar appears in 62 verses; the first 25 are shown below.
- Exodus 34:7
Keeping 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 32:10
He 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 33:9
Who 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 17:9
And 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 18:8
He smote the Philistines, even unto Gaza, and the borders thereof, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
- Job 7:20
I 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 27:18
He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth that the keeper maketh.
- Psalms 12:7
Thou shalt keep them, O Lord, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.
- Psalms 25:10
All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
- Psalms 25:21
Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee.
- Psalms 31:23
O love the Lord, all ye his saints: for the Lord preserveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.
- Psalms 32:7
Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah.
- Psalms 34:13
Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
- Psalms 40:11
Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O Lord: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.
- Psalms 61:7
He shall abide before God for ever: O prepare mercy and truth, which may preserve him.
- Psalms 64:1
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from fear of the enemy.
- Psalms 78:7
That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:
- Psalms 105:45
That they might observe his statutes, and keep his laws. Praise ye the Lord.
- Psalms 119:2
Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart.
- Psalms 119:22
Remove from me reproach and contempt; for I have kept thy testimonies.
- Psalms 119:33
ה HE. Teach me, O Lord, the way of thy statutes; and I shall keep it unto the end.
- Psalms 119:34
Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.
- Psalms 119:56
This I had, because I kept thy precepts.
- Psalms 119:69
The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart.
- Psalms 119:100
I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts.
All 62 references
- Psalms 119:115
- Psalms 119:129
- Psalms 119:145
- Psalms 140:1
- Psalms 140:4
- Psalms 141:3
- Proverbs 2:8
- Proverbs 2:11
- Proverbs 3:1
- Proverbs 3:21
- Proverbs 4:6
- Proverbs 4:13
- Proverbs 4:23
- Proverbs 5:2
- Proverbs 6:20
- Proverbs 7:10
- Proverbs 13:3
- Proverbs 13:6
- Proverbs 16:17
- Proverbs 20:28
- Proverbs 22:12
- Proverbs 23:26
- Proverbs 24:12
- Proverbs 27:18
- Proverbs 28:7
- Isaiah 1:8
- Isaiah 26:3
- Isaiah 27:3
- Isaiah 42:6
- Isaiah 48:6
- Isaiah 49:6
- Isaiah 49:8
- Isaiah 65:4
- Jeremiah 4:16
- Jeremiah 31:6
- Ezekiel 6:12
- Nahum 2:1