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נָצַר

to guard

also: watch, watch over, keep fuller range ↓

H5341 Strong's Hebrew
nâtsar Transliteration
/naw-tsar'/ Pronunciation
Usage in the Hebrew Bible 63 appearances

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Grammar key — what these labels mean

Part of speech

Verb
An action or state-of-being word.

Noun type

Common
A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.

Stem

Qal
The basic, simple active stem — the plain form of the verb (“he wrote”).

Form

Participle Active
A verbal adjective expressing ongoing or characteristic action (“writing / one who writes”).
Imperfect
An incomplete, ongoing, or future action (“he will / would write”).
Imperative
A direct command (“write!”).
Perfect
A completed action or state — Hebrew marks aspect (completeness) more than strict tense (“he wrote”).
Cohortative
A first-person volitional form expressing wish or resolve (“let me / let us write”).
Participle Passive
A verbal adjective expressing action received (“written”).
Infinitive Construct
A bound verbal noun, frequently with prepositions (“to write / in writing”).
Infinitive Absolute
An unbound verbal noun, often intensifying or standing in for a finite verb.
Jussive
A third- or second-person volitional form expressing wish or command (“let him write”).

State

Absolute
The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Construct
A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).

Person

3rd Person
The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
2nd Person
The one addressed (“you”).
1st Person
The speaker (“I / we”).

Gender

Masculine
Grammatically masculine.
Common
Either gender — not distinguished for this form.
Feminine
Grammatically feminine.

Number

Singular
One.
Plural
More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).

Grammatical forms 24 distinct

  • Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural 8 times (13%)
  • Verb, Qal, Participle Active, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 7 times (11%)
  • Verb, Qal, Imperative, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular 6 times (10%)
  • Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular 6 times (10%)
  • Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 1st Person, Common, Singular 5 times (8%)
  • Verb, Qal, Participle Active, Masculine, Plural, Absolute 4 times (6%)
  • Verb, Qal, Perfect, 1st Person, Common, Singular 3 times (5%)
  • Verb, Qal, Cohortative, 1st Person, Common, Singular 3 times (5%)

+16 more forms (21 occurrences)

Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 63 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.

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Exodus 1 verse

Deuteronomy 2 verses

2 Kings 2 verses

Job 2 verses

Psalms 24 verses

Proverbs 19 verses

Isaiah 8 verses

Jeremiah 2 verses

Ezekiel 1 verse

Nahum 1 verse

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