Strong's #6113: `atsar (pronounced aw-tsar')

a primitive root; to inclose; by analogy, to hold back; also to maintain, rule, assemble:--X be able, close up, detain, fast, keep (self close, still), prevail, recover, refrain, X reign, restrain, retain, shut (up), slack, stay, stop, withhold (self).

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

‛âtsar

1) to restrain, retain, close up, shut, withhold, refrain, stay, detain

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to restrain, halt, stop

1a2) to retain

1b) (Niphal) to be restrained, be stayed, be under restraint

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 46 times:

 

Genesis 16:2: "Behold now, the LORD hath restrained me from bearing: I pray thee, go in"
Genesis 20:18: "For the LORD had fast closed up all the wombs of the house"
Genesis 20:18: "For the LORD had fast closed up all the wombs of the house"
Numbers 16:48: "the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed."
Numbers 16:50: "of the tabernacle of the congregation: and the plague was stayed."
Numbers 25:8: "through her belly. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel."
Deuteronomy 11:17: "And then the LORD's wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no"
Deuteronomy 32:36: "their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left."
Judges 13:15: "the angel of the LORD, I pray thee, let us detain thee, until we shall have made ready a kid for"
Judges 13:16: "unto Manoah, Though thou detain me, I will not eat of thy bread: and if"
1 Samuel 9:17: "I spoke to thee of! this same shall reign over my people."
1 Samuel 21:5: "and said unto him, Of a truth women have been kept from us about these three days, since I came out,"
1 Samuel 21:7: "of Saul was there that day, detained before the LORD; and his name"
2 Samuel 24:21: "thee, to build an altar unto the LORD, that the plague may be stayed from the people."
2 Samuel 24:25: "was entreated for the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel."
1 Kings 8:35: "When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; if they pray"
1 Kings 14:10: "from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel, and will take away the remnant"
1 Kings 18:44: "Ahab, Prepare thy chariot, and get thee down, that the rain stop thee not."
1 Kings 21:21: "from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel,"
2 Kings 4:24: "her servant, Drive, and go forward; slack not thy riding for me, except"
2 Kings 9:8: "from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel:"
2 Kings 14:26: "that it was very bitter: for there was not any shut up, nor any left, nor any helper"
2 Kings 17:4: "by year: therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison."
1 Chronicles 12:1: "David to Ziklag, while he yet kept himself close because of Saul the son"
1 Chronicles 21:22: "it me for the full price: that the plague may be stayed from the people."
1 Chronicles 29:14: "and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? for"
2 Chronicles 2:6: "But who is able to build him a house, seeing the heaven and heaven"
2 Chronicles 6:26: "When the heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; yet if they pray"
2 Chronicles 7:13: "If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command"
2 Chronicles 13:20: "Neither did Jeroboam recover strength again in the days of Abijah: and the LORD"
2 Chronicles 14:11: "art our God; let not man prevail against"
2 Chronicles 20:37: "thy works. And the ships were broken, that they were not able to go to"
2 Chronicles 22:9: "of Ahaziah had no power to keep still the kingdom."
Nehemiah 6:10: "the son of Mehetabeel, who was shut up; and he said, Let us meet together in the house"
Job 4:2: "with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking?"
Job 12:15: "Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up: also he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth."
Job 29:9: "The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth."
Psalms 106:30: "Phinehas, and executed judgment: and so the plague was stayed."
Isaiah 66:9: "the LORD: shall I cause to bring forth, and shut the womb? saith thy God."
Jeremiah 20:9: "in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could"
Jeremiah 33:1: "the second time, while he was yet shut up in the court of the prison, saying,"
Jeremiah 36:5: "Baruch, saying, I am shut up; I cannot go into the house"
Jeremiah 39:15: "unto Jeremiah, while he was shut up in the court of the prison, saying,"
Daniel 10:8: "was turned in me into corruption, and I retained no strength."
Daniel 10:16: "by the vision my sorrows are turned upon me, and I have retained no strength."
Daniel 11:6: "to make an agreement: but she shall not retain the power of the arm; neither shall he stand,"