Hebrew verb · H5201
נָטַר
natarnaw-tar'
to keep
9 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: nâṭar
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5201is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 39Old Testament books
- 9spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5201
to guard; figuratively, to cherish (anger)
The King James renders it: bear grudge, keep(-er), reserve.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
natar is rendered "to keep". It stands 9 times in the Hebrew text, across five books.
- Four of the uses stand in Song of Solomon, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Leviticus 19:18Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against any of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD.
- The Greek text spells it nine different ways.
The first use
Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against any of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD.
Leviticus 19:18תִטֹּר֙
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Four of the word's nine uses are in Song of Solomon.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- ¿ will he maintain1
- and maintaining1
- he will keep1
- I have kept1
- I will maintain1
- keeps1
- to keep1
- to the keep1
- you will keep1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 9, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
9 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- אֶטּ֖וֹר1
- הֲיִנְטֹ֣ר1
- וְנוֹטֵ֥ר1
- יִטּֽוֹר׃1
- לְנֹטְרִ֥ים1
- לַנֹּטְרִ֑ים1
- נֹטֵרָ֣ה1
- נָטָֽרְתִּי׃1
- תִטֹּר֙1
The grammar of each form
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular1HC/Vqrmsa
- preposition + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural1HR/Vqrmpa
- preposition with the article + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural1HRd/Vqrmpa
- question particle + verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HTi/Vqi3ms
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular1HVqi1cs
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular1HVqi2ms
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVqi3ms
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular1HVqp1cs
- verb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singular1HVqrfsa
Leviticus
one use
Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against any of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD.
- תִטֹּר֙titorverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will keep
Psalms
one use
He will not always accuse us, nor harbor His anger forever.
- יִטּֽוֹר׃yitorverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will keep
Song of Solomon
four uses
Do not stare because I am dark, for the sun has gazed upon me. My mother’s sons were angry with me; they made me a keeper of the vineyards, but my own vineyard I have neglected.
- נֹטֵרָ֣הnoterahverb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singulartagged: keeps
- נָטָֽרְתִּי׃nataretiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have kept
Solomon had a vineyard in Baal-hamon. He leased it to the tenants. For its fruit, each was to bring a thousand shekels of silver.
- לַנֹּטְרִ֑יםlanoterimpreposition with the article + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: to the keep
But my own vineyard is mine to give; the thousand shekels are for you, O Solomon, and two hundred are for those who tend its fruit.
- לְנֹטְרִ֥יםlenoterimpreposition + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: to keep
Jeremiah
two uses
Will He be angry forever? Will He be indignant to the end?’ This you have spoken, but you keep doing all the evil you can.”
- הֲיִנְטֹ֣רhayintorquestion particle + verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: ¿ will he maintain
Go, proclaim this message toward the north: ‘Return, O faithless Israel,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will no longer look on you with anger, for I am merciful,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will not be angry forever.
- אֶטּ֖וֹרʾetorverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will maintain
Nahum
one use
The LORD is a jealous and avenging God; the LORD is avenging and full of wrath. The LORD takes vengeance on His foes and reserves wrath for His enemies.
- וְנוֹטֵ֥רvenoterconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: and maintaining
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.