Hebrew verb · H680
אָצַל
atsalaw-tsal'
to reserve
5 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʼâtsal
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H680is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 5spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H680
to separate; hence, to select, refuse, contract
The King James renders it: keep, reserve, straiten, take.
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
atsal is rendered "to reserve". It stands 5 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Two of the uses stand in Numbers, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 27:36So Esau declared, “Is he not rightly named Jacob? For he has cheated me twice. He took my birthright, and now he has taken my blessing.” Then he asked, “Haven’t you saved a blessing for me?”
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
So Esau declared, “Is he not rightly named Jacob? For he has cheated me twice. He took my birthright, and now he has taken my blessing.” Then he asked, “Haven’t you saved a blessing for me?”
Genesis 27:36אָצַ֥לְתָּ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's five uses are in Numbers.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and he shared1
- and I will share1
- have you reserved1
- I withheld1
- it was shortened1
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| אָצַר | atsar | to store | Uses5 |
All 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 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
- אָצַ֥לְתָּ1
- אָצַ֖לְתִּי1
- וְאָצַלְתִּ֗י1
- וַיָּ֗אצֶל1
- נֶאֱצַ֗ל1
The grammar of each form
- Hc/Vqq1cs1Hc/Vqq1cs
- Hc/Vqw3ms1Hc/Vqw3ms
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVNp3ms
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular1HVqp1cs
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singular1HVqp2ms
Genesis
one use
So Esau declared, “Is he not rightly named Jacob? For he has cheated me twice. He took my birthright, and now he has taken my blessing.” Then he asked, “Haven’t you saved a blessing for me?”
- אָצַ֥לְתָּʾatzaltaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: have you reserved
Numbers
two uses
And I will come down and speak with you there, and I will take some of the Spirit that is on you and put that Spirit on them. They will help you bear the burden of the people, so that you do not have to bear it by yourself.
- וְאָצַלְתִּ֗יveatzaltiHc/Vqq1cstagged: and I will share
Then the LORD came down in the cloud and spoke to him, and He took some of the Spirit that was on Moses and placed that Spirit on the seventy elders. As the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied—but they never did so again.
- וַיָּ֗אצֶלvaiyatzelHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he shared
Ecclesiastes
one use
Anything my eyes desired, I did not deny myself. I refused my heart no pleasure. For my heart took delight in all my work, and this was the reward for all my labor.
- אָצַ֖לְתִּיʾatzaltiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I withheld
Ezekiel
one use
For they were arranged in three stories, and unlike the courts, they had no pillars. So the upper chambers were set back further than the lower and middle floors.
- נֶאֱצַ֗לneetzalverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it was shortened
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.