Word

אָצַל

ʼâtsal · H680 · Hebrew · 5 occurrences

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Meanings

to take part of, to reserve, to set apart

To remove part of an object to be used for another purpose

Examples
Genesis 27:36 Then Esau said, “Is he not rightly named Jacob, for he has betrayed me these two times? He took away my birthright, and behold, now he has taken away my blessing.” And he said, “Have you not reserved a blessing for me?”
Numbers 11:17 “Then I will come down and speak with you there, and I will take away some of the Spirit who is upon you, and put Him upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, so that you will not bear it by yourself.
Numbers 11:25 Then the LORD came down in the cloud and spoke to him; and He took away some of the Spirit who was upon him and placed Him upon the seventy elders. And when the Spirit rested upon them, they prophesied. Yet they did not do it again.
not to hide from one's eyes > to want to see

Literally: to not take away something from one's eyes; hence: to deliberately look at something

Examples
Ecclesiastes 2:10 All that my eyes desired, I did not refuse them. I did not restrain my heart from any pleasure, for my heart was pleased because of all my labor; and this was my reward for all my labor.
to be made smaller

Meaning unsure, possibly: to take away part of something; hence: to make something smaller in size than something else

Examples
Ezekiel 42:6 For they were in three stories and had no pillars like the pillars of the courtyards; for that reason the upper chambers were set back from the ground upward, more than the lower and middle ones.

How it’s used In 4 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

5 occurrences in 3 groups

Not stated: I 2
Not stated: he, she or it 2
Not stated: you (one person) 1

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

2 occurrences in 2 groups

בְּרָכָהblessing, praise, gift 1
כֹּלall, every, whole 1

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

5 occurrences in 4 groups

מִןfrom+ רוּחַspirit, wind 2
מִןfrom+ אֶרֶץland, earth, ground 1
מִןfrom+ הֶםthem 1
לto/for+ נִיme 1

With adverbsAdverbs

2 occurrences in 1 groups

לֹאnot 2

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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Semantic domains 3 entries

Non-Whole002003001021: אָצַל describes taking a portion away from a whole, as some of the Spirit upon Moses being taken and placed on the seventy elders.
See002004001005: The word can carry a sense of setting something apart to be seen or reserved for later, an attentive holding back.
Little002001001038: It can also describe reserving a small remaining portion, as Esau asking whether even a small blessing had been kept back for him.

Word family 4 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

אָצַלʼâtsal · H680אֵצֶל ʼêtsel · H681 · beside, next to, by · 61×אַצִּיל ʼatstsîyl · H679 · joint of arm, wrist, elbow · 3×אָצִיל ʼâtsîyl · H678 · farthest corner, leader · 2×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H680. atsal [אָצַל] verb denominative lay aside, reserve, withdraw, withhold — Qal…

H680. atsal
[אָצַל] verb denominative lay aside, reserve, withdraw, withhold —
Qal Perfect אָצַלְתָּ Gen 27:36; אָצַלְתִּי Ecc 2:10; וְאָֽצַלְתִּ֫י consecutive Num 11:17; — reserve, בְרָכָה לִי Gen 27:36; (withdraw), set apart מִןהָֿרוּחַ Num 11:17; withhold מֵהֶם Ecc 2:10.
Niph`al Perfect נֶאֱצַל Eze 42:6 be withdrawn, i.e. shortened or narrowed.
Hiph`il Imperfect וַיָּאצֶל Num 11:25 (Kö1. 390) = Qal Num 11:17.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 3 entries

Little1 occurrence Non-Whole3 occurrences See1 occurrence

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

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