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:
Leviticus 20:22: " Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: that the land,"
Leviticus 22:9: " They shall therefore keep mine ordinance, lest they bear sin for it, and die"
Leviticus 22:31: " Therefore shall ye keep my commandments, and do them: I am the LORD."
Leviticus 25:18: "Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them; and ye shall dwell in"
Leviticus 26:2: " Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD."
Leviticus 26:3: "If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do"
Numbers 1:53: "of the children of Israel: and the Levites shall keep the charge of the tabernacle of testimony."
Numbers 3:7: " And they shall keep his charge, and the charge of the whole congregation before the tabernacle"
Numbers 3:8: " And they shall keep all the instruments of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the charge of the children"
Numbers 3:10: "And thou shalt appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall wait on their priest's office: and the stranger that cometh nigh"
Numbers 3:28: "were eight thousand and six hundred, keeping the charge of the sanctuary."
Numbers 3:32: "over the chief of the Levites, and have the oversight of them that keep the charge of the sanctuary."
Numbers 3:38: "shall be Moses, and Aaron and his sons, keeping the charge of the sanctuary for the charge of the children"
Numbers 6:24: "The LORD bless thee, and keep"
Numbers 8:26: "their brethren in the tabernacle of the congregation, to keep the charge, and shall do no service."
Numbers 9:19: "days, then the children of Israel kept the charge of the LORD, and journeyed"
Numbers 9:23: "the commandment of the LORD they journeyed: they kept the charge of the LORD, at"
Numbers 18:3: " And they shall keep thy charge, and the charge of all the tabernacle: only they shall not come nigh"
Numbers 18:4: "And they shall be joined unto thee, and keep the charge of the tabernacle of the congregation, for all"
Numbers 18:5: " And ye shall keep the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the altar: that there be no"
Numbers 18:7: "Therefore thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your priest's office for every thing"
Numbers 23:12: "And he answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which the LORD"
Numbers 28:2: "for my sacrifices made by fire, for a sweet savor unto me, shall ye observe to offer unto me in their due season."
Numbers 31:30: "of all manner of beasts, and give them unto the Levites, which keep the charge of the tabernacle"
Numbers 31:47: "and of beast, and gave them unto the Levites, which kept the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD;"
Deuteronomy 2:4: "in Seir; and they shall be afraid of you: take ye good heed unto yourselves therefore:"
Deuteronomy 4:2: "you, neither shall ye diminish aught from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God"
Deuteronomy 4:6: " Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations,"
Deuteronomy 4:9: "Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget"
Deuteronomy 4:9: "Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget"
Deuteronomy 4:15: " Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of similitude"
Deuteronomy 4:23: " Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which"
Deuteronomy 4:40: " Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes, and his commandments, which I command thee this day,"
Deuteronomy 5:1: "speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and keep, and do"
Deuteronomy 5:10: "mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments."
Deuteronomy 5:12: " Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the LORD thy God"
Deuteronomy 5:29: "there were such a heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments"
Deuteronomy 5:32: " Ye shall observe to do therefore as the LORD your God hath commanded you: ye shall not turn aside"
Deuteronomy 6:2: "the LORD thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments,"
Deuteronomy 6:3: "Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase"
Deuteronomy 6:12: " Then beware lest thou forget the LORD, which brought thee forth out of the land"
Deuteronomy 6:17: " Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes,"
Deuteronomy 6:17: " Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes,"
Deuteronomy 6:25: "And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these"
Deuteronomy 7:8: "But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath"
Deuteronomy 7:9: "is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep"
Deuteronomy 7:9: "covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;"
Deuteronomy 7:11: " Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command"
Deuteronomy 7:12: "to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that the LORD thy God shall keep"
Deuteronomy 7:12: "and do them, that the LORD thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy which"
