Strong's #5201: natar (pronounced naw-tar')

a primitive root; to guard; figuratively, to cherish (anger):--bear grudge, keep(-er), reserve.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

nâṭar

1) to keep, keep guard, reserve, maintain

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to keep, maintain

1a2) to keep, guard

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 9 times:

 

Leviticus 19:18: "Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love"
Psalms 103:9: "always chide: neither will he keep his anger forever."
Song of Solomon 1:6: "hath looked upon me: my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards;"
Song of Solomon 1:6: "of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept."
Song of Solomon 8:11: "he let out the vineyard unto keepers; every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand"
Song of Solomon 8:12: "is before me: thou, O Solomon, must have a thousand, and those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred."
Jeremiah 3:5: " Will he reserve his anger forever? will he keep it to the end? Behold, thou hast spoken and done evil things"
Jeremiah 3:12: "saith the LORD, and I will not keep anger forever."
Nahum 1:2: "the LORD will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth wrath for his enemies."