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:
Isaiah 1:8: "in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city."
Isaiah 26:3: " Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth"
Isaiah 27:3: "I the LORD do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt"
Isaiah 27:3: "it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day."
Isaiah 42:6: "thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light"
Isaiah 48:6: "it? I have showed thee new things from this time, even hidden things, and thou didst not know"
Isaiah 49:6: "the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light"
Isaiah 49:8: "thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, to establish"
Isaiah 65:4: "Which remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments, which eat swine's flesh, and broth"
Jeremiah 4:16: "publish against Jerusalem, that watchers come from a far country,"
Jeremiah 31:6: "For there shall be a day, that the watchmen upon the mount Ephraim shall cry, Arise"
Ezekiel 6:12: "shall fall by the sword; and he that remaineth and is besieged shall die by the famine: thus will I accomplish my fury"
Nahum 2:1: "is come up before thy face: keep the munition, watch the way, make thy loins strong,"
