tigara

v.

1. remain, survive. Remain, survive. To continue to exist or be left after others have gone, died, or been removed; to be a remnant.

Example: Nĩ matigari magacokerera Mũrungu ũrĩa ũrĩ hinya, o arĩa magatigara a Jakubu. (A remnant will return, A remnant will return : in Hebrew, shear-jashub , an allusion to the name of Isaiah’s son, Shear-jashub; cf. 7:3. the remnant of Jacob,); Nao andũ anyu arĩa magatigara mahwererekere mathirĩre o kũu bũrũri wa thũ cianyu nĩ ũndũ wa ũũru wao, o na ningĩ tondũ wa ũũru wa maithe mao, mahwererekere mathire. (Those of you who survive will waste away in the lands of their enemies, for their own and their ancestors’ guilt. Ez 4:17; 24:23; 33:10.)