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:
Psalms 37:34: "Wait on the LORD, and keep his way, and he shall exalt thee to inherit the land:"
Psalms 37:37: " Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace."
Psalms 39:1: "A Psalm of David. I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue:"
Psalms 39:1: "to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while"
Psalms 41:2: "The LORD will preserve him, and keep him alive; and he shall be blessed upon the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will"
Psalms 56:6: "They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul."
Psalms 59:1: "of David; when Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him. Deliver"
Psalms 59:9: "Because of his strength will I wait upon thee: for God is my defense."
Psalms 71:10: "For mine enemies speak against me; and they that lay wait for my soul take counsel together,"
Psalms 78:10: " They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;"
Psalms 78:56: "the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:"
Psalms 86:2: " Preserve my soul; for I am holy: O thou my God, save"
Psalms 89:28: "My mercy will I keep for him forevermore, and my covenant shall stand fast"
Psalms 89:31: "If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments;"
Psalms 91:11: "For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways."
Psalms 97:10: "the LORD, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand"
Psalms 99:7: "unto them in the cloudy pillar: they kept his testimonies, and the ordinance that he gave"
Psalms 103:18: " To such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his commandments to do"
Psalms 105:45: "That they might observe his statutes, and keep his laws. Praise ye the LORD."
Psalms 106:3: "Blessed are they that keep judgment, and he that doeth righteousness at all times."
Psalms 107:43: "Whoso is wise, and will observe these things, even they shall understand the lovingkindness of the LORD."
Psalms 116:6: "The LORD preserveth the simple: I was brought low, and he helped"
Psalms 119:4: "Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently."
Psalms 119:5: "O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!"
Psalms 119:8: " I will keep thy statutes: O forsake me not utterly."
Psalms 119:9: "cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word."
Psalms 119:17: "with thy servant, that I may live, and keep thy word."
Psalms 119:34: "Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart."
Psalms 119:44: " So shall I keep thy law continually forever and ever."
Psalms 119:55: "thy name, O LORD, in the night, and have kept thy law."
Psalms 119:57: "Thou art my portion, O LORD: I have said that I would keep thy words."
Psalms 119:60: "I made haste, and delayed not to keep thy commandments."
Psalms 119:63: "of all them that fear thee, and of them that keep thy precepts."
Psalms 119:67: "was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word."
Psalms 119:88: "Quicken me after thy lovingkindness; so shall I keep the testimony of thy mouth."
Psalms 119:101: "from every evil way, that I might keep thy word."
Psalms 119:106: "I have sworn, and I will perform it, that I will keep thy righteous judgments."
Psalms 119:134: "Deliver me from the oppression of man: so will I keep thy precepts."
Psalms 119:136: "run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law."
Psalms 119:146: "I cried unto thee; save me, and I shall keep thy testimonies."
Psalms 119:158: "the transgressors, and was grieved; because they kept not thy word."
Psalms 119:167: "My soul hath kept thy testimonies; and I love them exceedingly."
Psalms 119:168: " I have kept thy precepts and thy testimonies: for all my ways are before"
Psalms 121:3: "suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber."
Psalms 121:4: "Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep."
Psalms 121:5: "The LORD is thy keeper: the LORD is thy shade upon thy right hand."
Psalms 121:7: "The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul."
Psalms 121:7: "shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul."
Psalms 121:8: "The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even forevermore."
Psalms 127:1: "in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman"
