za.mar refers to tending a vineyard by pruning, whether required, forbidden, or withheld from desolated land.

The attested use concerns pruning a vineyard or its vines: it is prescribed during six years of cultivation, prohibited in the seventh-year sabbath, and absent when a vineyard is made waste.

1. Pruning in vineyard cultivation · dominant

   In Leviticus 25:3, the Qal imperfect form occurs with sowing the soil and gathering the vineyard's produce; the APB renders the clause "six years you shall prune your vineyard." Leviticus 25:4 uses the same Qal imperfect form in the prohibition for the seventh year, rendered "you shall not sow your soil and you shall not prune your vineyard."

   Leviticus 25:3Leviticus 25:4
2. Pruning withheld from desolated land · rare

   In Isaiah 5:6, the Niphal imperfect form describes land set as waste, followed by the clause the APB renders "it will not be pruned and it will not be hoed."

   Isaiah 5:6

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the term with "prune" in all three verses: as an act to be done, an act prohibited, and an act that will not occur. These renderings confirm the clauses' overall presentation rather than establish finer distinctions.