Strong's #2820: chasak (pronounced khaw-sak')

a primitive root; to restrain or (reflex.) refrain; by implication, to refuse, spare, preserve; also (by interch. with 2821) to observe:--assuage, X darken, forbear, hinder, hold back, keep (back), punish, refrain, reserve, spare, withhold.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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châśak

1) to withhold, restrain, hold back, keep in check, refrain

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to withhold, keep back, keep for oneself, keep from, hold in check, refrain, spare, reserve

1a2) to restrain, check

1b) (Niphal) to assuage, be spared

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 28 times:

 

Genesis 20:6: "of thy heart; for I also withheld thee from sinning against me: therefore"
Genesis 22:12: "God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only"
Genesis 22:16: "this thing, and hast not withheld thy son,"
Genesis 39:9: "house than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but"
1 Samuel 25:39: "of my reproach from the hand and hath kept his servant from evil:"
2 Samuel 18:16: "after Israel: for Joab held back the people."
2 Kings 5:20: "said, Behold, my master hath spared Naaman this Syrian,"
Ezra 9:13: "seeing that thou our God hast punished us less than our iniquities"
Job 7:11: "Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit;"
Job 16:5: "my mouth, and the moving of my lips should assuage"
Job 16:6: "I speak, my grief is not assuaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?"
Job 21:30: "That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath."
Job 30:10: "They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face."
Job 33:18: " He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword."
Job 38:23: "Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?"
Psalms 19:13: " Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then"
Psalms 78:50: "He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death,"
Proverbs 10:19: "there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips is wise."
Proverbs 11:24: "that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty."
Proverbs 13:24: " He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him quickly."
Proverbs 17:27: "He that hath knowledge spareth his words: and a man of understanding is of an excellent spirit."
Proverbs 21:26: "the day long: but the righteous giveth and spareth not."
Proverbs 24:11: "If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain;"
Isaiah 14:6: "he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth."
Isaiah 54:2: "and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen"
Isaiah 58:1: "Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and show"
Jeremiah 14:10: "have they loved to wander, they have not refrained their feet, therefore the LORD doth not accept"
Ezekiel 30:18: "At Tehaphnehes also the day shall be darkened, when I shall break there the yokes of Egypt:"