נָטַר nâṭar — to guard
Translated in the KJV as bear grudge, keep, reserve.
a primitive root; to guard; figuratively, to cherish (anger).
nâṭar in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Imperfect (yiqtol) 4Participle (active) 4Perfect (qatal) 1
Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the Lord.
He will not always chide: neither will he keep his anger for ever.
Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me: my mother’s children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept.
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 ›