Strong's H2820
חָשַׂךְ
- Transliteration
- châsak
- Pronunciation
- khaw-sak'
- Definition
- to restrain or (reflex.) refrain; by implication, to refuse, spare, preserve; to observe
- KJV usage
- assuage, [idiom] darken, forbear, hinder, hold back, keep (back), punish, refrain, reserve, spare, withhold.
- Derivation
- a primitive root; also interchangeable with H2821 (חָשַׁךְ)
From Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890), Hebrew dictionary. Data: Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA.