נָצַר nâtsar

Meaning

to guard, in a good sense (to protect, maintain, obey, etc.) or a bad one (to conceal, etc.)

In the King James Version: besieged, hidden thing, keep(-er, -ing), monument, observe, preserve(-r), subtil, watcher(-man).

Derivation: a primitive root;

Where it is used

• Exodus 34:7 maintaining loving devotion to a thousand generations, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin. Yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished; He will visit the iniquity of the fathers on their children and grandchildren to the third and fourth generations.”
• Deuteronomy 32:10 He found him in a desert land, in a barren, howling wilderness; He surrounded him, He instructed him, He guarded him as the apple of His eye.
• Deuteronomy 33:9 He said of his father and mother, ‘I do not consider them.’ He disregarded his brothers and did not know his own sons, for he kept Your word and maintained Your covenant.
• 2 Kings 17:9 The Israelites secretly did things against the LORD their God that were not right. From watchtower to fortified city, they built high places in all their cities.
• 2 Kings 18:8 He defeated the Philistines as far as Gaza and its borders, from watchtower to fortified city.
• Job 7:20 If I have sinned, what have I done to You, O watcher of mankind? Why have You made me Your target, so that I am a burden to You?
• Job 27:18 The house he built is like a moth’s cocoon, like a hut set up by a watchman.
• Psalms 12:7 You, O LORD, will keep us; You will forever guard us from this generation.
• Psalms 25:10 All the LORD’s ways are loving and faithful to those who keep His covenant and His decrees.
• Psalms 25:21 May integrity and uprightness preserve me, because I wait for You.
• Psalms 31:23 Love the LORD, all His saints. The LORD preserves the faithful, but fully repays the arrogant.
• Psalms 32:7 You are my hiding place. You protect me from trouble; You surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah
• Psalms 34:13 Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from deceitful speech.
• Psalms 40:11 O LORD, do not withhold Your mercy from me; Your loving devotion and faithfulness will always guard me.
• Psalms 61:7 May he sit enthroned in God’s presence forever; appoint Your loving devotion and Your faithfulness to guard him.
• Psalms 64:1 For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. Hear, O God, my voice of complaint; preserve my life from dread of the enemy.
• Psalms 78:7 that they should put their confidence in God, not forgetting His works, but keeping His commandments.
• Psalms 105:45 that they might keep His statutes and obey His laws. Hallelujah!
• Psalms 119:2 Blessed are those who keep His testimonies and seek Him with all their heart.
• Psalms 119:22 Remove my scorn and contempt, for I have kept Your testimonies.
• Psalms 119:33 Teach me, O LORD, the way of Your statutes, and I will keep them to the end.
• Psalms 119:34 Give me understanding that I may obey Your law, and follow it with all my heart.
• Psalms 119:56 This is my practice, for I obey Your precepts.
• Psalms 119:69 Though the arrogant have smeared me with lies, I keep Your precepts with all my heart.
• Psalms 119:100 I discern more than the elders, for I obey Your precepts.
• Psalms 119:115 Depart from me, you evildoers, that I may obey the commandments of my God.
• Psalms 119:129 Wonderful are Your testimonies; therefore I obey them.
• Psalms 119:145 I call with all my heart; answer me, O LORD! I will obey Your statutes.
• Psalms 140:1 For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. Rescue me, O LORD, from evil men. Protect me from men of violence,
• Psalms 140:4 Guard me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked. Keep me safe from men of violence who scheme to make me stumble.
• Psalms 141:3 Set a guard, O LORD, over my mouth; keep watch at the door of my lips.
• Proverbs 2:8 to guard the paths of justice and protect the way of His saints.
• Proverbs 2:11 Discretion will watch over you, and understanding will guard you,
• Proverbs 3:1 My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments;
• Proverbs 3:21 My son, do not lose sight of this: Preserve sound judgment and discernment.
• Proverbs 4:6 Do not forsake wisdom, and she will preserve you; love her, and she will guard you.
• Proverbs 4:13 Hold on to instruction; do not let go. Guard it, for it is your life.
• Proverbs 4:23 Guard your heart with all diligence, for from it flow springs of life.
• Proverbs 5:2 that you may maintain discretion and your lips may preserve knowledge.
• Proverbs 6:20 My son, keep your father’s commandment, and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.
• Proverbs 7:10 Then a woman came out to meet him, with the attire of a harlot and cunning of heart.
• Proverbs 13:3 He who guards his mouth protects his life, but the one who opens his lips invites his own ruin.
• Proverbs 13:6 Righteousness guards the man of integrity, but wickedness undermines the sinner.
• Proverbs 16:17 The highway of the upright leads away from evil; he who guards his way protects his life.
• Proverbs 20:28 Loving devotion and faithfulness preserve a king; by these he maintains his throne.
• Proverbs 22:12 The LORD’s eyes keep watch over knowledge, but He frustrates the words of the faithless.
• Proverbs 23:26 My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes delight in my ways.
• Proverbs 24:12 If you say, “Behold, we did not know about this,” does not He who weighs hearts consider it? Does not the One who guards your life know? Will He not repay a man according to his deeds?
• Proverbs 27:18 Whoever tends a fig tree will eat its fruit, and he who looks after his master will be honored.
• Proverbs 28:7 A discerning son keeps the law, but a companion of gluttons disgraces his father.
• Isaiah 1:8 And the Daughter of Zion is abandoned like a shelter in a vineyard, like a shack in a cucumber field, like a city besieged.
• Isaiah 26:3 You will keep in perfect peace the steadfast of mind, because he trusts in You.
• Isaiah 27:3 I, the LORD, am its keeper; I water it continually. I guard it night and day so no one can disturb it;
• Isaiah 42:6 “I, the LORD, have called you for a righteous purpose, and I will take hold of your hand. I will keep you and appoint you to be a covenant for the people and a light to the nations,
• Isaiah 48:6 You have heard these things; look at them all. Will you not acknowledge them? From now on I will tell you of new things, hidden things unknown to you.
• Isaiah 49:6 He says: “It is not enough for You to be My Servant, to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the protected ones of Israel. I will also make You a light for the nations, to bring My salvation to the ends of the earth.”
• Isaiah 49:8 This is what the LORD says: “In the time of favor I will answer You, and in the day of salvation I will help You; I will keep You and appoint You to be a covenant for the people, to restore the land, to apportion its desolate inheritances,
• Isaiah 65:4 sitting among the graves, spending nights in secret places, eating the meat of pigs and polluted broth from their bowls.
• Jeremiah 4:16 Warn the nations now! Proclaim to Jerusalem: “A besieging army comes from a distant land; they raise their voices against the cities of Judah.
• Jeremiah 31:6 For there will be a day when watchmen will call out on the hills of Ephraim, ‘Arise, let us go up to Zion, to the LORD our God!’”