# נָצַר (natsar) Israeli respelling: na-tsar. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew. Strong’s H5341. 62 Old Testament occurrences. to guard, in a good sense (to protect, maintain, obey, etc.) or a bad one (to conceal, etc.) King James renderings: besieged, hidden thing, keep(-er, -ing), monument, observe, preserve(-r), subtil, watcher(-man). Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/natsar-h5341 ## Occurrences - [Exodus 34:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/34/7) — Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquit… - [Deuteronomy 32:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/32/10) — He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his ey… - [Deuteronomy 33:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/33/9) — Who said unto his father and to his mother, I have not seen him; neither did he acknowledge his brethren, nor knew his own children: for th… - [2 Kings 17:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/17/9) — And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the LORD their God, and they built them high places in all… - [2 Kings 18:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/18/8) — He smote the Philistines, even unto Gaza, and the borders thereof, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city. - [Job 7:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/7/20) — I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to my… - [Job 27:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/27/18) — He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth that the keeper maketh. - [Psalms 12:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/12/7) — Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever. - [Psalms 25:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/25/10) — All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies. - [Psalms 25:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/25/21) — Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee. - [Psalms 31:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/31/23) — O love the LORD, all ye his saints: for the LORD preserveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer. - [Psalms 32:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/32/7) — Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah. - [Psalms 34:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/34/13) — Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile. - [Psalms 40:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/40/11) — Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me. - [Psalms 61:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/61/7) — He shall abide before God for ever: O prepare mercy and truth, which may preserve him. - [Psalms 64:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/64/1) — Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from fear of the enemy. - [Psalms 78:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/78/7) — That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments: - [Psalms 105:45](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/105/45) — That they might observe his statutes, and keep his laws. Praise ye the LORD. - [Psalms 119:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/2) — Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart. - [Psalms 119:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/22) — Remove from me reproach and contempt; for I have kept thy testimonies. - [Psalms 119:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/33) — Teach me, O LORD, the way of thy statutes; and I shall keep it unto the end. - [Psalms 119:34](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/34) — Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart. - [Psalms 119:56](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/56) — This I had, because I kept thy precepts. - [Psalms 119:69](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/69) — The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart. - [Psalms 119:100](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/100) — I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts. - [Psalms 119:115](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/115) — Depart from me, ye evildoers: for I will keep the commandments of my God. - [Psalms 119:129](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/129) — Thy testimonies are wonderful: therefore doth my soul keep them. - [Psalms 119:145](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/145) — I cried with my whole heart; hear me, O LORD: I will keep thy statutes. - [Psalms 140:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/140/1) — Deliver me, O LORD, from the evil man: preserve me from the violent man; - [Psalms 140:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/140/4) — Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the violent man; who have purposed to overthrow my goings. - [Psalms 141:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/141/3) — Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips. - [Proverbs 2:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/2/8) — He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints. - [Proverbs 2:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/2/11) — Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee: - [Proverbs 3:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/3/1) — My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments: - [Proverbs 3:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/3/21) — My son, let not them depart from thine eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion: - [Proverbs 4:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/4/6) — Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee. - [Proverbs 4:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/4/13) — Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life. - [Proverbs 4:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/4/23) — Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life. - [Proverbs 5:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/5/2) — That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge. - [Proverbs 6:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/6/20) — My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother: - [Proverbs 7:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/7/10) — And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart. - [Proverbs 13:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/13/3) — He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction. - [Proverbs 13:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/13/6) — Righteousness keepeth him that is upright in the way: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner. - [Proverbs 16:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/16/17) — The highway of the upright is to depart from evil: he that keepeth his way preserveth his soul. - [Proverbs 20:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/20/28) — Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne is upholden by mercy. - [Proverbs 22:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/22/12) — The eyes of the LORD preserve knowledge, and he overthroweth the words of the transgressor. - [Proverbs 23:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/23/26) — My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways. - [Proverbs 24:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/24/12) — If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it… - [Proverbs 27:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/27/18) — Whoso keepeth the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof: so he that waiteth on his master shall be honoured. - [Proverbs 28:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/28/7) — Whoso keepeth the law is a wise son: but he that is a companion of riotous men shameth his father. - [Isaiah 1:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/1/8) — And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city. - [Isaiah 26:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/26/3) — Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee. - [Isaiah 27:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/27/3) — I the LORD do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day. - [Isaiah 42:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/42/6) — I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for… - [Isaiah 48:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/48/6) — Thou hast heard, see all this; and will not ye declare it? I have shewed thee new things from this time, even hidden things, and thou didst… - [Isaiah 49:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/49/6) — And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel:… - [Isaiah 49:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/49/8) — Thus saith the LORD, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I will preserve thee, and g… - [Isaiah 65:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/65/4) — Which remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments, which eat swine’s flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels; - [Jeremiah 4:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/4/16) — Make ye mention to the nations; behold, publish against Jerusalem, that watchers come from a far country, and give out their voice against… - [Jeremiah 31:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/31/6) — For there shall be a day, that the watchmen upon the mount Ephraim shall cry, Arise ye, and let us go up to Zion unto the LORD our God. - [Ezekiel 6:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/6/12) — He that is far off shall die of the pestilence; and he that is near shall fall by the sword; and he that remaineth and is besieged shall di… - [Nahum 2:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nahum/2/1) — He that dasheth in pieces is come up before thy face: keep the munition, watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy power mightily.