Lexicon :: Strong's H2820 - ḥāśaḵ

When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, “Blessed be the LORD, who has pleaded the cause of my reproach [suffered] at the hand of Nabal and has kept His servant from [retaliating with] evil. For the Lord has returned the wickedness of Nabal on his own head.” Then David sent word to Abigail, proposing to take her as his wife.

Then Joab blew the trumpet [to signal the end of the combat], and the men returned from pursuing Israel, for Joab held them back.

when Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, “My master has spared this Naaman the Aramean (Syrian), by not accepting from him what he brought. As the LORD lives, I will run after him and get something from him.”

“Therefore I will not restrain my mouth;

I will speak in the anguish of my spirit,

I will complain in the bitterness of my soul [O Lord].

“[But instead] I could strengthen and encourage you with [the words of] my mouth,

And the consolation and solace of my lips would soothe your suffering and lessen your anguish.

“That evil men are [now] reserved for the day of disaster and destruction,

They will be led away on the day of [God’s] wrath?

“They hate me, they stand aloof from me,

And do not refrain from spitting in my face.

He holds back his soul from the pit [of destruction],

And his life from passing over into Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead).

Which I have reserved for the time of trouble,

For the day of battle and war?

Also keep back Your servant from presumptuous (deliberate, willful) sins;

Let them not rule and have control over me.

Then I will be blameless (complete),

And I shall be acquitted of great transgression.

He leveled a path for His anger [to give it free run];

He did not spare their souls from death,

But turned over their lives to the plague.

When there are many words, transgression and offense are unavoidable,

But he who controls his lips and keeps thoughtful silence is wise.

There is the one who [generously] scatters [abroad], and yet increases all the more;

And there is the one who withholds what is justly due, but it results only in want and poverty.

He who withholds the rod [of discipline] hates his son,

But he who loves him disciplines and trains him diligently and appropriately [with wisdom and love].

He who has knowledge restrains and is careful with his words,

And a man of understanding and wisdom has a cool spirit (self-control, an even temper).

He craves all the day long [and does no work],

But the righteous [willingly] gives and does not withhold [what he has].

Rescue those who are being taken away to death,

And those who stagger to the slaughter, Oh hold them back [from their doom]!

Which used to strike the peoples in anger with incessant blows,

Which subdued and ruled the nations in wrath with unrelenting persecution.

“Enlarge the site of your tent [to make room for more children];

Stretch out the curtains of your dwellings, do not spare them;

Lengthen your tent ropes

And make your pegs (stakes) firm [in the ground].

“Cry aloud, do not hold back;

Lift up your voice like a trumpet,

And declare to My people their transgression

And to the house of Jacob their sins.

Thus says the LORD to this people [Judah], “In the manner and to the degree [already pointed out] they have loved to wander; they have not restrained their feet. Therefore the LORD does not accept them; He will now remember [in detail] their wickedness and punish them for their sins.”