Limitless Word
חָשַׂךְchâsak/khaw-sak'/
HebrewH282027 occurrences (KJV)

to restrain or (reflex.) refrain; by implication, to refuse, spare, preserve; to observe

KJV renders it: assuage, [idiom] darken, forbear, hinder, hold back, keep (back), punish, refrain, reserve, spare, withhold.

Where it appears

  • Gen 20:6God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know that in the integrity of your heart you have done this, and I also withheld you from sinning against me. Therefore I didn’t allow you to touch her.
  • Gen 22:12He said, “Don’t lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.”
  • Gen 22:16and said, “I have sworn by myself, says Yahweh, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son,
  • Gen 39:9No one is greater in this house than I am, and he has not kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?”
  • 1 Sam 25:39When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, “Blessed is Yahweh, who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and has kept back his servant from evil. Yahweh has returned the evildoing of Nabal on his own head.” David sent and spoke concerning Abigail, to take her to himself as wife.
  • 2 Sam 18:16Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel; for Joab held the people back.
  • 2 Kgs 5:20But Gehazi the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, “Behold, my master has spared this Naaman the Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought. As Yahweh lives, I will run after him, and take something from him.”
  • Ezra 9:13“After all that has come on us for our evil deeds, and for our great guilt, since you, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and have given us such a remnant,
  • Job 7:11“Therefore I will not keep silent. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
  • Job 16:5but I would strengthen you with my mouth. The solace of my lips would relieve you.
  • Job 16:6“Though I speak, my grief is not subsided. Though I forbear, what am I eased?
  • Job 21:30that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity, That they are led out to the day of wrath?
  • Job 30:10They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, and don’t hesitate to spit in my face.
  • Job 33:18He keeps back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.
  • Job 38:23which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?
  • Ps 19:13Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins. Let them not have dominion over me. Then I will be upright. I will be blameless and innocent of great transgression.
  • Ps 78:50He made a path for his anger. He didn’t spare their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence,
  • Prov 10:19In the multitude of words there is no lack of disobedience, but he who restrains his lips does wisely.
  • Prov 11:24There is one who scatters, and increases yet more. There is one who withholds more than is appropriate, but gains poverty.
  • Prov 13:24One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.
  • Prov 17:27He who spares his words has knowledge. He who is even tempered is a man of understanding.
  • Prov 21:26There are those who covet greedily all day long; but the righteous give and don’t withhold.
  • Prov 24:11Rescue those who are being led away to death! Indeed, hold back those who are staggering to the slaughter!
  • Isa 14:6who struck the peoples in wrath with a continual stroke, who ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that no one restrained.
  • Isa 54:2“Enlarge the place of your tent, and let them stretch out the curtains of your habitations; don’t spare: lengthen your cords, and strengthen your stakes.
  • Isa 58:1“Cry aloud, don’t spare. Lift up your voice like a trumpet. Declare to my people their disobedience, and to the house of Jacob their sins.
  • Jer 14:10Yahweh says to this people, “Even so they have loved to wander. They have not restrained their feet. Therefore Yahweh does not accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity, and punish them for their sins.”

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.