# H680 אָצַל

אָצַל (ʼâtsal), Strong’s H680: to separate; hence, to select, refuse, contract KJV: keep, reserve, straiten, take.. Occurs 5 times.

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*ʼâtsal* — to separate; hence, to select, refuse, contract

KJV: keep, reserve, straiten, take.

Derived from [אֵצֶל ʼêtsel](https://besorah.bible/word/H681) (a side)

Occurs 5 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [אָצַל] vb. denom. lay aside, reserve, withdraw, withhold
- Qal reserve; (withdraw), set apart; withhold
- Niph. be withdrawn, i.e. shortened or narrowed.
- Hiph. = Qal

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 27:36](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/27?v=36) — He said, “Isn’t he rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright. See, now…
- [Numbers 11:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/11?v=17) — I will come down and talk with you there. I will take of the Spirit which is on you, and will put it on them; and they…
- [Numbers 11:25](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/11?v=25) — The LORD came down in the cloud, and spoke to him, and took of the Spirit that was on him, and put it on the seventy…
- [Ezekiel 42:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezekiel/42?v=6) — For they were in three stories, and they didn’t have pillars as the pillars of the courts. Therefore the uppermost was…
- [Ecclesiastes 2:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ecclesiastes/2?v=10) — Whatever my eyes desired, I didn’t keep from them. I didn’t withhold my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced…