Strong's Lexicon

H680

H680 — אָצַל

Hebrew / Aramaic entry for Bible study and original-language reference.

HebrewatsalverbOccurrences: 5TWOT: 153

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:	H680
Word:	אָצַל
Part of Speech:	verb
Etymology:	a primitive root, properly, to join; used only as a denominative from H681
Language:	Hebrew
Occurrences:	5
Transliteration:	atsal
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:	aw-tsal'
Meaning:	1. to separate 2. (hence) to select, refuse, contract
KJV Renderings:	keep, reserve, straiten, take.

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced

BDB695

[אָצַל] verb denominative lay aside, reserve, withdraw, withhold —

Qal Perfect אָצַלְתָּ Gen 27:36 אָצַלְתִּי Eccl 2:10 וְאָֽצַלְתִּ֫י consecutive Num 11:17 — reserve, לִי בְרָכָה Gen 27:36 ( withdraw), set apart מִןהָֿרוּחַ Num 11:17 withhold מֵהֶם Eccl 2:10.

Niph`al Perfect נֶאֱצַל Ezek 42:6 be withdrawn, i.e. shortened or narrowed.

Hiph`il Imperfect וַיָּאצֶל Num 11:25 (Kö^{1. 390}) = Qal Num 11:17.

Other Resources

Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, and Bruce K. Waltke

Englishman's Hebrew Concordance

אצל (ah-tzal’)

Numbers 11:17

KJV: And I will come down and talk with thee there: and I will take of the spirit which is upon thee, and will put it upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with thee, that thou bear it not thyself alone.

EHCC: and I will take of the spirit

Ecclesiastes 2:10

KJV: And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour.

EHCC: / kept not from them,

Ezekiel 42:6

KJV: For they were in three stories, but had not pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore the building was straitened more than the lowest and the middlemost from the ground.

EHCC: was straitened more than the

Numbers 11:25

KJV: And the Lord came down in a cloud, and spake unto him, and took of the spirit that was upon him, and gave it unto the seventy elders: and it came to pass, that, when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied, and did not cease.

EHCC: and took of the spirit that (was) upon him,