Strong's Hebrew · H5341
נָצַר
nâtsar · naw-tsar'
Definitionto guard, in a good sense (to protect, maintain, obey, etc.) or a bad one (to conceal, etc.)
Derivationa primitive root;
KJV usagebesieged, hidden thing, keep(-er, -ing), monument, observe, preserve(-r), subtil, watcher(-man).
Occurrences63 in the KJV · 62 verses
נָצַר in Scripture
Exodus 34:7
Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty ; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children' s children, unto the third and to the fourth generation .
Deuteronomy 32:10
He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
Deuteronomy 33:9
Who said unto his father and to his mother, I have not seen him; neither did he acknowledge his brethren, nor knew his own children: for they have observed thy word, and kept thy covenant.
2 Kings 17:9
And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the LORD their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
2 Kings 18:8
He smote the Philistines, even unto 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 against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?
Job 27:18
He buildeth 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
All the paths 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 thee.
Psalms 31:23
O love the LORD, all ye his saints: for the LORD preserveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.
Psalms 32:7
Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah.
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