# עָצָר (atsar)

Israeli respelling: a-tsar. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H6113. 45 Old Testament occurrences.

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

King James renderings: [idiom] be able, close up, detain, fast, keep (self close, still), prevail, recover, refrain, [idiom] reign, restrain, retain, shut (up), slack, stay, stop, withhold (self).

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/atsar-h6113

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 16:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/16/2) — And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, the LORD hath restrained me from bearing: I pray thee, go in unto my maid; it may be that I may obta…
- [Genesis 20:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/20/18) — For the LORD had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham’s wife.
- [Numbers 16:48](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/16/48) — And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.
- [Numbers 16:50](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/16/50) — And Aaron returned unto Moses unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and the plague was stayed.
- [Numbers 25:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/25/8) — And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her belly. So…
- [Deuteronomy 11:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/11/17) — And then the LORD’s wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit;…
- [Deuteronomy 32:36](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/32/36) — For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up…
- [Judges 13:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/13/15) — And Manoah said unto the angel of the LORD, I pray thee, let us detain thee, until we shall have made ready a kid for thee.
- [Judges 13:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/13/16) — And the angel of the LORD said unto Manoah, Though thou detain me, I will not eat of thy bread: and if thou wilt offer a burnt offering, th…
- [1 Samuel 9:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/9/17) — And when Samuel saw Saul, the LORD said unto him, Behold the man whom I spake to thee of! this same shall reign over my people.
- [1 Samuel 21:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/21/5) — And David answered the priest, and said unto him, Of a truth women have been kept from us about these three days, since I came out, and the…
- [1 Samuel 21:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/21/7) — Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before the LORD; and his name was Doeg, an Edomite, the chiefest of…
- [2 Samuel 24:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/24/21) — And Araunah said, Wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant? And David said, To buy the threshingfloor of thee, to build an altar u…
- [2 Samuel 24:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/24/25) — And David built there an altar unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So the LORD was intreated for the land, and…
- [1 Kings 8:35](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/8/35) — When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name,…
- [1 Kings 14:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/14/10) — Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall, and him…
- [1 Kings 18:44](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/18/44) — And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man’s hand. And he said,…
- [1 Kings 21:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/21/21) — Behold, I will bring evil upon thee, and will take away thy posterity, and will cut off from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall, and hi…
- [2 Kings 4:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/4/24) — Then she saddled an ass, and said to her servant, Drive, and go forward; slack not thy riding for me, except I bid thee.
- [2 Kings 9:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/9/8) — For the whole house of Ahab shall perish: and I will cut off from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left…
- [2 Kings 14:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/14/26) — For the LORD saw the affliction of Israel, that it was very bitter: for there was not any shut up, nor any left, nor any helper for Israel.
- [2 Kings 17:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/17/4) — And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea: for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and brought no present to the king of A…
- [1 Chronicles 12:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/12/1) — Now these are they that came to David to Ziklag, while he yet kept himself close because of Saul the son of Kish: and they were among the m…
- [1 Chronicles 21:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/21/22) — Then David said to Ornan, Grant me the place of this threshingfloor, that I may build an altar therein unto the LORD: thou shalt grant it m…
- [1 Chronicles 29:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/29/14) — But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? for all things come of thee, and of thin…
- [2 Chronicles 2:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/2/6) — But who is able to build him an house, seeing the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain him? who am I then, that I should build him a…
- [2 Chronicles 6:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/6/26) — When the heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; yet if they pray toward this place, and confess th…
- [2 Chronicles 7:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/7/13) — If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;
- [2 Chronicles 13:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/13/20) — Neither did Jeroboam recover strength again in the days of Abijah: and the LORD struck him, and he died.
- [2 Chronicles 14:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/14/11) — And Asa cried unto the LORD his God, and said, LORD, it is nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no power: h…
- [2 Chronicles 20:37](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/20/37) — Then Eliezer the son of Dodavah of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, Because thou hast joined thyself with Ahaziah, the LORD…
- [2 Chronicles 22:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/22/9) — And he sought Ahaziah: and they caught him, (for he was hid in Samaria,) and brought him to Jehu: and when they had slain him, they buried…
- [Nehemiah 6:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/6/10) — Afterward I came unto the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabeel, who was shut up; and he said, Let us meet together in…
- [Job 4:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/4/2) — If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking?
- [Job 12:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/12/15) — Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up: also he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.
- [Job 29:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/29/9) — The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.
- [Psalms 106:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/106/30) — Then stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment: and so the plague was stayed.
- [Isaiah 66:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/66/9) — Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? saith the LORD: shall I cause to bring forth, and shut the womb? saith thy God.
- [Jeremiah 20:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/20/9) — Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my…
- [Jeremiah 33:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/33/1) — Moreover the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah the second time, while he was yet shut up in the court of the prison, saying,
- [Jeremiah 36:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/36/5) — And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I am shut up; I cannot go into the house of the LORD:
- [Jeremiah 39:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/39/15) — Now the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah, while he was shut up in the court of the prison, saying,
- [Daniel 10:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/10/8) — Therefore I was left alone, and saw this great vision, and there remained no strength in me: for my comeliness was turned in me into corrup…
- [Daniel 10:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/10/16) — And, behold, one like the similitude of the sons of men touched my lips: then I opened my mouth, and spake, and said unto him that stood be…
- [Daniel 11:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/11/6) — And in the end of years they shall join themselves together; for the king’s daughter of the south shall come to the king of the north to ma…