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 127:1: "it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain."
Psalms 130:3: "If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?"
Psalms 130:6: "My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning."
Psalms 130:6: "waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning."
Psalms 132:12: "If thy children will keep my covenant and my testimony that I shall teach them, their children"
Psalms 140:4: " Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the violent man;"
Psalms 141:9: " Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity."
Psalms 145:20: "The LORD preserveth all them that love him: but all the wicked will he destroy."
Psalms 146:6: "the sea, and all that therein is: which keepeth truth forever:"
Psalms 146:9: "The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way"
Proverbs 2:8: "He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints."
Proverbs 2:11: "Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep"
Proverbs 2:20: "thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous."
Proverbs 3:26: "the LORD shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken."
Proverbs 4:4: "unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live."
Proverbs 4:6: "Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep"
Proverbs 4:21: "Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart."
Proverbs 5:2: " That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge."
Proverbs 6:22: "it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk"
Proverbs 6:24: " To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman."
Proverbs 7:1: "My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with"
Proverbs 7:2: " Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye."
Proverbs 7:5: " That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words."
Proverbs 8:32: "therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways."
Proverbs 8:34: "daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors."
Proverbs 10:17: "He is in the way of life that keepeth instruction: but he that refuseth reproof erreth."
Proverbs 13:3: "He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction."
Proverbs 13:18: "and shame shall be to him that refuseth instruction: but he that regardeth reproof shall be honored."
Proverbs 14:3: "of pride: but the lips of the wise shall preserve"
Proverbs 15:5: "despiseth his father's instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent."
Proverbs 16:17: "from evil: he that keepeth his way preserveth his soul."
Proverbs 19:8: "wisdom loveth his own soul: he that keepeth understanding shall find good."
Proverbs 19:16: " He that keepeth the commandment keepeth his own soul; but he that despiseth his ways shall die."
Proverbs 19:16: "He that keepeth the commandment keepeth his own soul; but he that despiseth his ways shall die."
Proverbs 21:23: " Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles."
Proverbs 21:23: "Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles."
Proverbs 22:5: "and snares are in the way of the froward: he that doth keep his soul shall be far from"
Proverbs 22:18: "For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in"
Proverbs 27:18: "the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof: so he that waiteth on his master shall be honored."
Proverbs 28:4: "the law praise the wicked: but such as keep the law contend"
Proverbs 29:18: "vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy"
Ecclesiastes 3:6: "and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;"
Ecclesiastes 5:1: " Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready"
Ecclesiastes 5:8: "he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than"
Ecclesiastes 5:13: "under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt."
Ecclesiastes 8:2: "I counsel thee to keep the king's commandment, and that in regard of the oath of God."
Ecclesiastes 8:5: " Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man's heart"
Ecclesiastes 11:4: " He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap."
Ecclesiastes 12:3: "In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves,"
Ecclesiastes 12:13: "Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole"
