# H2820 חָשַׂךְ

חָשַׂךְ (châsak), Strong’s H2820: to restrain or (reflex.) refrain; by implication, to refuse, spare, preserve; to observe KJV: assuage, [idiom] darken, forbear, hinder, hold back, keep (back)…

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*châsak* — to restrain or (reflex.) refrain; by implication, to refuse, spare, preserve; to observe

KJV: assuage, [idiom] darken, forbear, hinder, hold back, keep (back), punish, refrain…

Occurs 27 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- חָשַׂךְ vb. withhold, refrain
- Qal
- a withhold, keep back, keep for oneself
- b keep one from evil, calamity
- c hold in check
- d refrain
- e spare
- f reserve for
- 2 (abs.) restrain, check (pain) i.e. assuage
- Niph. at the day of calamity the wicked is spared

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 20:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/20?v=6) — God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know that in the integrity of your heart you have done this, and I also withheld…
- [Genesis 22:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/22?v=12) — He said, “Don’t lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not…
- [Genesis 22:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/22?v=16) — and said, “‘I have sworn by myself,’ says the LORD, ‘because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son…
- [Genesis 39:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/39?v=9) — No one is greater in this house than I am, and he has not kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife…
- [1 Samuel 25:39](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/25?v=39) — When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, “Blessed is the LORD, who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the…
- [2 Samuel 18:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/18?v=16) — Joab blew the shofar, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel; for Joab held the people back.
- [2 Kings 5:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/5?v=20) — But Gehazi the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, “Behold, my master has spared this Naaman the Syrian, in not…
- [Isaiah 14:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/14?v=6) — who struck the peoples in wrath with a continual stroke, who ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that no one…
- [Isaiah 54:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/54?v=2) — “Enlarge the place of your tent, and let them stretch out the curtains of your habitations; don’t spare; lengthen your…
- [Isaiah 58:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/58?v=1) — “Cry aloud! Don’t spare! Lift up your voice like a shofar! Declare to my people their disobedience, and to the house of…