- Original: חשׂך - Transliteration: Chasak - Phonetic: khaw-sak' - Definition: 1. to withhold, restrain, hold back, keep in check, refrain a. (Qal) 1. to withhold, keep back, keep for oneself, keep from, hold in check, refrain, spare, reserve 2. to restrain, check b. (Niphal) to assuage, be spared - Origin: a primitive root - TWOT entry: 765 - Part(s) of speech: Verb - Strong's: A prim root; to restrain or (reflexively) refrain; by implication to refuse spare preserve; also (by interchange with H2821 ) to observe: - assuage X darken forbear hinder hold back keep (back) punish refrain reserve spare withhold. Total KJV Occurrences: 28 • assuage, 1 Job 16:5 • assuaged, 1 Job 16:6 • back, 4 Genesis 39:9; 2 Samuel 18:16; Job 33:18; Psalm 19:13 • darkened, 1 Ezekiel 30:18 • forbear, 1 Proverbs 24:11 • hindereth, 1 Isaiah 14:6 • kept, 1 1 Samuel 25:39 • punished, 1 Ezra 9:13 • refrain, 1 Job 7:11 • refrained, 1 Jeremiah 14:10 • refraineth, 1 Proverbs 10:19 • reserved, 2 Job 21:30; Job 38:23 • spare, 3 Job 30:10; Isaiah 54:2; Isaiah 58:1 • spared, 2 2 Kings 5:20; Psalm 78:50 • spareth, 3 Proverbs 13:24; Proverbs 17:27; Proverbs 21:26 • withheld, 3 Genesis 20:6; Genesis 22:12; Genesis 22:16 • withholdeth, 1 Proverbs 11:24