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# נָטַר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5201

**keep** — used 9 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

keep [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5201/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נָטַר: vb. keep [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5201/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. keep (less common ‖ of נָצַר) (NH id.; 𝔗 נְטַר, Syriac ܢܛܰܪ id.; Nab. in n.pr. Lzb323 (cf. also infr.), Arabic نَطَرَ id. (obj. garden, etc.));— Pf. 1 s. נָטָ֑רְתִּי Ct 1:6; Impf. 3 ms. יִטּוֹר ψ 103:9, יִנְטוֹר Je 3:5; read וַיִּטֹּר also Am 1:11 (for MT יִטְרֹף) Ol ψ 103:9 We Now GASm Dr; 2 ms. תִּטֹּר Lv 19:18; 1 s. אֶטּוֹר Je 3:12; Pt. act. נוֹטֵר Na 1:2; f. נֹטֵרָה Ct 1:6; mpl. נֹטְרִים Ct 8:11, 12;— keep, maintain (sc. wrath), of י׳, Je 3:5, 12 Na 1:2 (c. לְ for), ψ 103:9; of Edom Am 1:11 (reading וַיִּטֹּר לָעַד אַפּוֹ and he kept his anger perpetually, v. supr.), Lv 19:18 (c. את with). keep, guard a vineyard Ct 1:6(×2) (in fig.), abs. 8:11, obj. פִּרְיוֹ v 12.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: I have kept (1); I will keep (1); \[one who\] keeps (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 103:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.103.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.103.9/#tree)

לֹֽא־לָנֶ֥צַח יָרִ֑יב וְלֹ֖א לְעוֹלָ֣ם יִטּֽוֹר׃

*Word for word:* not to perpetuity he.will.conduct.a.case and not forever of.perpetuity he.will.keep

*JPS 1917:* He will not always contend; neither will He keep His anger for ever.

[Jeremiah 3:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.3.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.3.5/#tree)

הֲיִנְטֹ֣ר לְעוֹלָ֔ם אִם־יִשְׁמֹ֖ר לָנֶ֑צַח הִנֵּ֥ה דִבַּ֛רְתְּוַתַּעֲשִׂ֥י הָרָע֖וֹת וַתּוּכָֽל׃פ

*Word for word:* will he.keep? forever of.perpetuity or? will.he.keep to perpetuity here! you.spoke and you.did (the).wicked things and you.were.able

*JPS 1917:* Will He bear grudge for ever? Will He keep it to the end?' Behold, thou hast spoken, but hast done evil things, and hast had thy way.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5201.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5201/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).