נְטַר
nᵉṭar · H5202 · Aramaic · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to keep in mind, to remember
Literally: to keep (something) in (one's) heart; hence: action by which humans keep processing information in their minds
ExamplesDaniel 7:28 “At this point the revelation ended. As for me, Daniel, my thoughts were greatly alarming me and my face became pale, but I kept the matter to myself.”
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- Not stated: I 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- מִלָּהcommandment 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with+ לֵבheart 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Contrasting words 1 word
- עָזַב ʻâzab · H5800 · to leave, to leave behind, to desert
- עָזַב means 'to forsake, abandon, leave' and represents the lexical opposite of נְטַר 'keep' — where נְטַר involves retaining or guarding something, עָזַב involves letting it go or abandoning it.
In the other Testament 2 words
- τηρέω tēréō · G5083 · to cause to continue, to retain, to keep
- τηρέω is the standard Greek verb for 'keep, guard, watch over' and serves as the natural translation equivalent for Hebrew נְטַר in its sense of keeping or guarding.
- φυλάσσω phylássō · G5442 · to guard closely, to obey, to keep commandments
- φυλάσσω means 'to guard, watch, keep' and is another common Greek translation equivalent for Hebrew verbs of keeping and guarding, including נְטַר.
Semantic domains 3 entries
- Safe002003003019
- This Safe code is inherited from the shared lemma-cluster grouping's “to watch over; to guard; to protect” sense; this word's own occurrence describes Daniel keeping a troubling matter to himself, never guarding or protecting a person or place.
- Know002004002007
- Daniel 7:28 recounts that “my thoughts were greatly alarming me and my face became pale, but I kept the matter to myself.”
- Angry002001002002
- This Angry code is inherited from the shared lemma-cluster grouping's “to hold a grudge” sense; this word's own occurrence describes Daniel keeping alarming thoughts to himself, never harboring a grudge against another.
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5202. netar [נְטַר] verb keep (ᵑ7 Syriac; see Biblical Hebrew I. נצר, and (rarely)…
[נְטַר] verb keep (ᵑ7 Syriac; see Biblical Hebrew I. נצר, and (rarely) נָטַר); —
Pe`al Perfect1singular נִמְרֵת בְּלִבִּי מִלְּתָא Dan 7:28.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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