Strong's Hebrew · H5341
H5341 nâtsar
נָצַר
naw-tsar'
to watch
Looking for Greek G5341 phelónēs? It has the same number in Strong's Greek lexicon but is a different word, not a translation of H5341. Strong's numbering starts again for each language.
nâtsar appears 61 times in Scripture, including Exodus 34:7 and Deuteronomy 32:10. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.
Definition
to guard, in a good sense (to protect, maintain, obey, etc.) or a bad one (to conceal, etc.)
In the King James Version
besieged, hidden thing, keep(-er, -ing), monument, observe, preserve(-r), subtil, watcher(-man).
Derivation
a primitive root;
Appears 61 times in Scripture
“sitting among the graves, spending nights in secret places, eating the meat of pigs and polluted broth from their bowls.”
“He found him in a desert land, in a barren, howling wilderness; He surrounded him, He instructed him, He guarded him as the apple of His eye.”
“For there will be a day when watchmen will call out on the hills of Ephraim, ‘Arise, let us go up to Zion, to the LORD our God!’””
“He who guards his mouth protects his life, but the one who opens his lips invites his own ruin.”
“The Israelites secretly did things against the LORD their God that were not right. From watchtower to fortified city, they built high places in all their cities.”
“He said of his father and mother, ‘I do not consider them.’ He disregarded his brothers and did not know his own sons, for he kept Your word and maintained Your covenant.”
““I, the LORD, have called you for a righteous purpose, and I will take hold of your hand. I will keep you and appoint you to be a covenant for the people and a light to the nations,”
“Righteousness guards the man of integrity, but wickedness undermines the sinner.”
“maintaining loving devotion to a thousand generations, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin. Yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished; He will visit the iniquity of the fathers on their children and grandchildren to the third and fourth generations.””
“that they should put their confidence in God, not forgetting His works, but keeping His commandments.”
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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).
