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:
2 Chronicles 13:11: "of gold with the lamps thereof, to burn every evening: for we keep"
2 Chronicles 19:7: "of the LORD be upon you; take heed and do it: for there is no iniquity"
2 Chronicles 23:6: "they are holy: but all the people shall keep the watch of the LORD."
2 Chronicles 33:8: "which I have appointed for your fathers; so that they will take heed to do"
2 Chronicles 34:9: "of God, which the Levites that kept the doors had gathered of the hand"
2 Chronicles 34:21: "upon us, because our fathers have not kept the word of the LORD,"
2 Chronicles 34:22: "of Tikvath, the son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem"
2 Chronicles 34:31: "to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes,"
Ezra 8:29: "Watch ye, and keep them, until ye weigh them before the chief of the priests and the Levites,"
Nehemiah 1:5: "the great and terrible God, that keepeth covenant and mercy for them that love him and observe"
Nehemiah 1:5: "covenant and mercy for them that love him and observe his commandments:"
Nehemiah 1:7: "We have dealt very corruptly against thee, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the judgments,"
Nehemiah 1:9: "But if ye turn unto me, and keep my commandments, and do them; though there were of you cast out"
Nehemiah 2:8: "And a letter unto Asaph the keeper of the king's forest, that he may give"
Nehemiah 3:29: "also Shemaiah the son of Shechaniah, the keeper of the east gate."
Nehemiah 9:32: "the mighty, and the terrible God, who keepest covenant and mercy, let not"
Nehemiah 10:29: "Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments"
Nehemiah 11:19: "Akkub, Talmon, and their brethren that kept the gates, were a hundred seventy and two."
Nehemiah 12:25: "Talmon, Akkub, were porters keeping the ward at the thresholds of the gates."
Nehemiah 12:45: "And both the singers and the porters kept the ward of their God, and the ward of the purification, according to the commandment"
Nehemiah 13:22: "they should cleanse themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the sabbath"
Esther 2:3: "the custody of Hege the king's chamberlain, keeper of the women; and let their things for purification be given"
Esther 2:8: "to the custody of Hegai, keeper of the women."
Esther 2:14: "of Shaashgaz, the king's chamberlain, which kept the concubines: she came in unto the king"
Esther 2:15: "what Hegai the king's chamberlain, the keeper of the women, appointed."
Esther 2:21: "chamberlains, Bigthan and Teresh, of those which kept the door, were wroth, and sought"
Esther 6:2: "two of the king's chamberlains, the keepers of the door, who sought"
Job 2:6: "Behold, he is in thine hand; but save his life."
Job 10:12: "Thou hast granted me life and favor, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit."
Job 10:14: "If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity."
Job 13:27: "Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon"
Job 14:16: "thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?"
Job 22:15: " Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?"
Job 23:11: "hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined."
Job 24:15: "The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see"
Job 29:2: "past, as in the days when God preserved"
Job 33:11: "He putteth my feet in the stocks, he marketh all my paths."
Job 36:21: " Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this"
Job 39:1: "when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve?"
Psalms 12:7: "Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation forever."
Psalms 16:1: "Michtam of David. Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust."
Psalms 17:4: "by the word of thy lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer."
Psalms 17:8: " Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings,"
Psalms 18:21: "For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God."
Psalms 18:23: "I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity."
Psalms 19:11: "Moreover by them is thy servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward."
Psalms 25:20: " O keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed; for I put my trust"
Psalms 31:6: "I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the LORD."
Psalms 34:20: " He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken."
Psalms 37:28: "not his saints; they are preserved forever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off."
