Strong's #8104: shamar (pronounced shaw-mar')
a primitive root; properly, to hedge about (as with thorns), i.e. guard; generally, to protect, attend to, etc.:--beward, be circumspect, take heed (to self), keep(-er, self), mark, look narrowly, observe, preserve, regard, reserve, save (self), sure, (that lay) wait (for), watch(-man).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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shâmar
1) to keep, guard, observe, give heed
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to keep, have charge of
1a2) to keep, guard, keep watch and ward, protect, save life
1a2a) watch, watchman (participle)
1a3) to watch for, wait for
1a4) to watch, observe
1a5) to keep, retain, treasure up (in memory)
1a6) to keep (within bounds), restrain
1a7) to observe, celebrate, keep (sabbath or covenant or commands), perform (vow)
1a8) to keep, preserve, protect
1a9) to keep, reserve
1b) (Niphal)
1b1) to be on one' s guard, take heed, take care, beware
1b2) to keep oneself, refrain, abstain
1b3) to be kept, be guarded
1c) (Piel) to keep, pay heed
1d) (Hithpael) to keep oneself from
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Usage:
This word is used 468 times:
1 Kings 8:24: "Who hast kept with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst"
1 Kings 8:25: "LORD God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father"
1 Kings 8:25: "of Israel; so that thy children take heed to their way, that they walk"
1 Kings 8:58: "him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his judgments, which"
1 Kings 8:61: "our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day."
1 Kings 9:4: "according to all that I have commanded thee, and wilt keep my statutes and my judgments:"
1 Kings 9:6: "from following me, ye or your children, and will not keep my commandments and my statutes"
1 Kings 11:10: "go after other gods: but he kept not that which"
1 Kings 11:11: "is done of thee, and thou hast not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have commanded"
1 Kings 11:34: "for David my servant's sake, whom I chose, because he kept"
1 Kings 11:38: "and do that is right in my sight, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as David"
1 Kings 13:21: "as thou hast disobeyed the mouth of the LORD, and hast not kept the commandment which"
1 Kings 14:8: "been as my servant David, who kept my commandments, and who followed"
1 Kings 14:27: "the hands of the chief of the guard, which kept the door of the king's house."
1 Kings 20:39: "a man unto me, and said, Keep this man: if"
2 Kings 6:9: "the king of Israel, saying, Beware that thou pass not such a place;"
2 Kings 6:10: "of God told him and warned him of, and saved himself there, not once nor"
2 Kings 9:14: "Joram. (Now Joram had kept Ramoth-gilead, he and all Israel,"
2 Kings 10:31: "But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the LORD God of Israel"
2 Kings 11:5: "of you that enter in on the sabbath shall even be keepers of the watch of the king's house;"
2 Kings 11:6: "at the gate behind the guard: so shall ye keep the watch of the house, that it be not broken down."
2 Kings 11:7: "of all you that go forth on the sabbath, even they shall keep the watch of the house of the LORD"
2 Kings 12:9: "into the house of the LORD: and the priests that kept the door put therein"
2 Kings 17:13: "saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes,"
2 Kings 17:19: "Also Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD their God,"
2 Kings 17:37: "and the commandment, which he wrote for you, ye shall observe to do forevermore; and ye shall not"
2 Kings 18:6: "and departed not from following him, but kept his commandments, which the LORD"
2 Kings 21:8: "their fathers; only if they will observe to do according to all that I have commanded"
2 Kings 22:4: "into the house of the LORD, which the keepers of the door have gathered of"
2 Kings 22:14: "of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem"
2 Kings 23:3: "to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all"
2 Kings 23:4: "priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple"
2 Kings 25:18: "the second priest, and the three keepers of the door:"
1 Chronicles 9:19: "were over the work of the service, keepers of the gates of the tabernacle: and their fathers, being over"
1 Chronicles 9:19: "being over the host of the LORD, were keepers of the entry."
1 Chronicles 10:13: "the word of the LORD, which he kept not, and also for asking counsel of one that had a familiar spirit,"
1 Chronicles 12:29: "thousand: for hitherto the greatest part of them had kept the ward of the house of Saul."
1 Chronicles 22:12: "and give thee charge concerning Israel, that thou mayest keep the law of the LORD thy God."
1 Chronicles 22:13: "Then shalt thou prosper, if thou takest heed to fulfill the statutes and judgments"
1 Chronicles 23:32: " And that they should keep the charge of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the charge of the holy place, and the charge"
1 Chronicles 28:8: "of the LORD, and in the audience of our God, keep and seek for all the commandments of the LORD"
1 Chronicles 29:18: "Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this forever in the imagination of the thoughts"
1 Chronicles 29:19: "my son a perfect heart, to keep thy commandments, thy testimonies, and thy statutes, and to do"
2 Chronicles 5:11: "that were present were sanctified, and did not then wait by course:"
2 Chronicles 6:14: "like thee in the heaven, nor in the earth; which keepest covenant, and showest mercy unto thy servants, that walk"
2 Chronicles 6:15: "Thou which hast kept with thy servant David my father that which thou hast promised"
2 Chronicles 6:16: "therefore, O LORD God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father"
2 Chronicles 6:16: "the throne of Israel; yet so that thy children take heed to their way to walk"
2 Chronicles 7:17: "according to all that I have commanded thee, and shalt observe my statutes and my judgments;"
2 Chronicles 12:10: "the hands of the chief of the guard, that kept the entrance of the king's house."
