# H6113 עָצָר

עָצָר (ʻâtsâr), Strong’s H6113: to inclose; by analogy, to hold back; also to maintain, rule, assemble KJV: [idiom] be able, close up, detain, fast, keep (self close, still), prevail, recover……

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*ʻâtsâr* — to inclose; by analogy, to hold back; also to maintain, rule, assemble

KJV: [idiom] be able, close up, detain, fast, keep (self close, still), prevail, recover…

Occurs 46 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- עָצַר 46 vb. restrain, retain
- Qal
- 1 restrain
- 2 (late) retain
- Niph. be restrained, stayed
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## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 16:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/16?v=2) — Sarai said to Abram, “See now, the LORD has restrained me from bearing. Please go in to my servant. It may be that I…
- [Genesis 20:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/20?v=18) — For the LORD had closed up tight all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham’s wife.
- [Numbers 17:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/17?v=13) — He stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.
- [Numbers 17:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/17?v=15) — Aaron returned to Moses to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and the plague was stopped.
- [Numbers 25:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/25?v=8) — He went after the man of Israel into the pavilion, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman…
- [Deuteronomy 11:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/11?v=17) — and the LORD’s anger be kindled against you, and he shut up the sky so that there is no rain, and the land doesn’t…
- [Deuteronomy 32:36](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/32?v=36) — For the LORD will judge his people, and have compassion on his servants, when he sees that their power is gone, that…
- [Judges 13:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/13?v=15) — Manoah said to the LORD’s angel, “Please stay with us, that we may make a young goat ready for you.”
- [Judges 13:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/13?v=16) — The LORD’s angel said to Manoah, “Though you detain me, I won’t eat your bread. If you will prepare a burnt offering…
- [1 Samuel 9:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/9?v=17) — When Samuel saw Saul, the LORD said to him, “Behold, the man of whom I spoke to you! He will have authority over my…