Strong's #5341: natsar (pronounced naw-tsar')
a primitive root; to guard, in a good sense (to protect, maintain, obey, etc.) or a bad one (to conceal, etc.):-- besieged, hidden thing, keep(-er, -ing), monument, observe, preserve(-r), subtil, watcher(-man).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
nâtsar
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)
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Usage:
This word is used 63 times:
Exodus 34:7: " Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear"
Deuteronomy 32:10: "wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye."
Deuteronomy 33:9: "for they have observed thy word, and kept thy covenant."
2 Kings 17:9: "in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city."
2 Kings 18:8: "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"
Job 27:18: "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 forever."
Psalms 25:10: "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"
Psalms 31:23: "all ye his saints: for the LORD preserveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth"
Psalms 32:7: "Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance."
Psalms 34:13: " Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile."
Psalms 40:11: "let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve"
Psalms 61:7: "O prepare mercy and truth, which may preserve"
Psalms 64:1: "my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from fear of the enemy."
Psalms 78:7: "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: "from me reproach and contempt; for I have kept thy testimonies."
Psalms 119:33: "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: "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."
Psalms 119:115: "Depart from me, ye evildoers: for I will keep the commandments of my God."
Psalms 119:129: "are wonderful: therefore doth my soul keep"
Psalms 119:145: "heart; hear me, O LORD: I will keep thy statutes."
Psalms 140:1: "me, O LORD, from the evil man: preserve me from the violent man;"
Psalms 140:4: "me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the violent man;"
Psalms 141:3: "a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips."
Proverbs 2:8: " He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints."
Proverbs 2:11: "Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep"
Proverbs 3:1: "not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:"
Proverbs 3:21: "let not them depart from thine eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion:"
Proverbs 4:6: "her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep"
Proverbs 4:13: "of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life."
Proverbs 4:23: " Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues"
Proverbs 5:2: "That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge."
Proverbs 6:20: "My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:"
Proverbs 7:10: "him a woman with the attire of a harlot, and subtle of heart."
Proverbs 13:3: " He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction."
Proverbs 13:6: "Righteousness keepeth him that is upright in the way: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner."
Proverbs 16:17: "of the upright is to depart from evil: he that keepeth his way preserveth his soul."
Proverbs 20:28: "Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne is upheld by mercy."
Proverbs 22:12: "The eyes of the LORD preserve knowledge, and he overthroweth the words of the transgressor."
Proverbs 23:26: "give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways."
Proverbs 24:12: "he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render"
Proverbs 27:18: " Whoso keepeth the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof: so he that waiteth on his master shall be honored."
Proverbs 28:7: " Whoso keepeth the law is a wise son: but he that is a companion of riotous men shameth his father."
