To withhold
חָשַׂךְStrong’s H2820chasakh (cha-sakh)
Appears in 28 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chasakh is the Hebrew word usually translated “have withheld”, “has restrained” and “restrains”. It appears in 28 verses of the Old Testament.
“And God said unto him in a dream, Yea, I know that thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart; for I also withheld thee from sinning against me: therefore suffered I thee not to touch her.”
Meaning
- To withhold, restrain, hold back, keep in check, refrain(Qal) · (Niphal) to assuage, be spared
How it's translated
- you have withheld 3
- he has restrained 2
- restrains 2
- you refrain 2
- and i have restrained 1
- he has withheld 1
- he restrained 1
- i will restrain 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 7
- Proverbs 6
- Genesis 4
- Isaiah 3
- Psalms 2
- 1 Samuel 1
11 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 22:12And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.
- Genesis 22:16And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the LORD, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son:
- Genesis 39:9There is none greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou art his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?
- 1 Samuel 25:39And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed be the LORD, that hath pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and hath kept his servant from evil: for the LORD hath returned the wickedness of Nabal upon his own head. And David sent and communed with Abigail, to take her to him to wife.
- 2 Samuel 18:16And Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel: for Joab held back the people.
- 2 Kings 5:20But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold, my master hath spared Naaman this Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought: but, as the LORD liveth, I will run after him, and take somewhat of him.
Hebrew dictionary
חָשַׂךְ chasakh · to withhold
1) to withhold, restrain, hold back, keep in check, refrain 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to withhold, keep back, keep for oneself, keep from, hold in check, refrain, spare, reserve 1a2) to restrain, check 1b) (Niphal) to assuage, be spared
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “withhold” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WITHHOLD, verb transitive
preterit tense and participle passive withheld. [with and hold.]
- TO hold back; to restrain; to keep from action.
- To retain; to keep back; not to grant; as, to withhold assent to a proposition.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.