- Original: עצר - Transliteration: `atsar - Phonetic: aw-tsar' - Definition: 1. to restrain, retain, close up, shut, withhold, refrain, stay, detain a. (Qal) 1. to restrain, halt, stop 2. to retain b. (Niphal) to be restrained, be stayed, be under restraint - Origin: a primitive root - TWOT entry: 1675 - Part(s) of speech: Verb - Strong's: A primitive root; to inclose; by analogy to hold back; also to maintain rule assemble: - X be able close up detain fast keep (self close still) prevail recover refrain X reign restrain retain shut (up) slack stay stop withhold (self). Total KJV Occurrences: 46 • able, 3 1 Chronicles 29:14; 2 Chronicles 2:6; 2 Chronicles 20:37 • close, 1 1 Chronicles 12:1 • detain, 2 Judges 13:15; Judges 13:16 • detained, 1 1 Samuel 21:7 • kept, 1 1 Samuel 21:5 • prevail, 1 2 Chronicles 14:11 • recover, 1 2 Chronicles 13:20 • refrained, 1 Job 29:9 • reign, 1 1 Samuel 9:17 • restrained, 1 Genesis 16:2 • retain, 1 Daniel 11:6 • retained, 2 Daniel 10:8; Daniel 10:16 • shut, 1 Isaiah 66:9 • slack, 1 2 Kings 4:24 • stayed, 7 Numbers 16:48; Numbers 16:50; Numbers 25:8; 2 Samuel 24:21; 2 Samuel 24:25; 1 Chronicles 21:22; Psalm 106:30 • still, 1 2 Chronicles 22:9 • stop, 1 1 Kings 18:44 • up, 17 Genesis 20:18(2); Deuteronomy 11:17; Deuteronomy 32:36; 1 Kings 8:35; 1 Kings 14:10; 1 Kings 21:21; 2 Kings 9:8; 2 Kings 14:26; 2 Kings 17:4; 2 Chronicles 6:26; 2 Chronicles 7:13; Nehemiah 6:10; Jeremiah 20:9; Jeremiah 33:1; Jeremiah 36:5; Jeremiah 39:15 • withhold, 1 Job 4:2 • withholdeth, 1 Job 12:15