Strong H680אָצַל

to reserve

Transliteration
'âtsal
Pronunciation
aw-tsal'
Morphology
Hebrew Verb

Definition

A primitive root; properly to join; used only as a denominative from H681; to separate; hence to {select} {refuse} contract : - {keep} {reserve} {straiten} take.

Detailed definition

1) to lay aside, reserve, withdraw, withhold
1a) (Qal) to reserve, set apart, withhold
1b) (Niphal) to be withdrawn
1c) (Hiphil) to withdraw

In the Bible

Strong H680 appears in 5 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • take2
  • keep1
  • reserve1
  • straiten1

First verses

  1. Genesis 27:36
    And he said, Is not he rightly named Jacob? for he hath supplanted me these two times: he took away my birthright; and, behold, now he hath taken away my blessing. And he said, Hast thou not reserved a blessing for me?
  2. Numbers 11:17
    And I will come down and talk with thee there: and I will take of the spirit which is upon thee, and will put it upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with thee, that thou bear it not thyself alone.
  3. Numbers 11:25
    And the Lord came down in a cloud, and spake unto him, and took of the spirit that was upon him, and gave it unto the seventy elders: and it came to pass, that, when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied, and did not cease.
  4. Ecclesiastes 2:10
    And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour.
  5. Ezekiel 42:6
    For they were in three stories, but had not pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore the building was straitened more than the lowest and the middlemost from the ground.
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