עָצָר ʻâtsâr — to inclose
Translated in the KJV as × be able, close up, detain, fast, keep (self close, still), prevail, recover, refrain, × reign, restrain, retain.
a primitive root; to inclose; by analogy, to hold back; also to maintain, rule, assemble.
ʻâtsâr in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Participle (passive) 12Imperfect (yiqtol) 8Perfect (qatal) 7Sequential perfect (weqatal) 2Jussive 2Infinitive construct 2Infinitive absolute 1Cohortative 1Wayyiqtol 1
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 obtain children by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai.
For the Lord had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham’s wife.
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; and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the Lord giveth you.
Niph'al
Wayyiqtol 4Infinitive construct 2Perfect (qatal) 1Participle (active) 1Imperfect (yiqtol) 1Jussive 1
Whosoever cometh any thing near unto the tabernacle of the Lord shall die: shall we be consumed with dying?
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 the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›