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THE HOLY BIBLE KING JAMES VERSION — with Greek & Hebrew Lexicons and Commentary
Strong’s Hebrew

H5341 — natsar

The entry below is Strong’s own definition (1890, public domain), and every verse where the word occurs.

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נָצַר

natsar — pronounced naw-tsar

a primitive root; to guard, in a good sense (to protect, maintain, obey, etc.) or a bad one (to conceal, etc.):-- besieged, hidden thing, keep(-er, -ing), monument, observe, preserve(-r), subtil, watcher(-man).

62 occurrences in the KJV.

Exodus 34:7

Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.

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 eye.

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 they have observed thy word, and kept thy covenant.

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 their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.

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

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 myself?

Job 27:18

He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth that the keeper maketh.

Psalms 12:7

Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.

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

Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee.

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

Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah.

Psalms 34:13

Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.

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

He shall abide before God for ever: O prepare mercy and truth, which may preserve him.

Psalms 64:1

Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from fear of the enemy.

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

That they might observe his statutes, and keep his laws. Praise ye the LORD.

Psalms 119:2

Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart.

Psalms 119:22

Remove from me reproach and contempt; for I have kept thy testimonies.

Psalms 119:33

Teach me, O LORD, the way of thy statutes; and I shall keep it unto the end.

Psalms 119:34

Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.

Psalms 119:56

This I had, because I kept thy precepts.

Psalms 119:69

The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart.

Psalms 119:100

I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts.

Psalms 119:115

Depart from me, ye evildoers: for I will keep the commandments of my God.

Psalms 119:129

Thy testimonies are wonderful: therefore doth my soul keep them.

Psalms 119:145

I cried with my whole heart; hear me, O LORD: I will keep thy statutes.

Psalms 140:1

Deliver me, O LORD, from the evil man: preserve me from the violent man;

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

Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.

Proverbs 2:8

He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints.

Proverbs 2:11

Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:

Proverbs 3:1

My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:

Proverbs 3:21

My son, let not them depart from thine eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion:

Proverbs 4:6

Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee.

Proverbs 4:13

Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life.

Proverbs 4:23

Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

Proverbs 5:2

That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.

Proverbs 6:20

My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

Proverbs 7:10

And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.

Proverbs 13:3

He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.

Proverbs 13:6

Righteousness keepeth him that is upright in the way: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.

Proverbs 16:17

The highway of the upright is to depart from evil: he that keepeth his way preserveth his soul.

Proverbs 20:28

Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne is upholden by mercy.

Proverbs 22:12

The eyes of the LORD preserve knowledge, and he overthroweth the words of the transgressor.

Proverbs 23:26

My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.

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? and shall not he render to every man according to his works?

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

Whoso keepeth the law is a wise son: but he that is a companion of riotous men shameth his father.

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 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 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

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 a light of the Gentiles;

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 not know them.

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: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.

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 give thee for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages;

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

Make ye mention to the nations; behold, publish against Jerusalem, that watchers come from a far country, and give out their voice against the cities of Judah.

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

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 die by the famine: thus will I accomplish my fury upon them.

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.

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