ʾāṣal (אָצַל) — Hebrew word meaning “lay aside”

אָצַל

ʾāṣal

lay aside

Strong's H680VerbHebrewTWOT 153

אָצַל (ʾāṣal) is a Hebrew verb meaning lay aside. It appears 5 times in 4 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H680).

Also rendered

to reserve

Same Hebrew root (TWOT 153)

Range of meaning (TWOT 153)lay aside, reserve, withdraw, withhold; set apart; be withdrawn, shortened, narrowed; join, separate, select, refuse, contract; keep, straiten, take

Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's

אָצַל verb, denominative: lay aside, reserve, withdraw, withhold

Qalreserve; (withdraw), set apart; withhold
Niphalbe withdrawn, i.e. shortened or narrowed.

Strong's H680 אָצַל: properly, to join; used only as a denominative from H681; to separate; hence, to select, refuse, contract
KJV:keep, reserve, straiten, take.

Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.

See it in Scripture

Genesis 27:36 Numbers 11:17 Ecclesiastes 2:10

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