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:
Song of Solomon 3:3: " The watchmen that go about the city found me: to whom I said, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth?"
Song of Solomon 5:7: " The watchmen that went about the city found me, they smote me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls"
Song of Solomon 5:7: "found me, they smote me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my veil"
Isaiah 7:4: "And say unto him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither be fainthearted"
Isaiah 21:11: "He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night?"
Isaiah 21:11: "me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?"
Isaiah 21:12: " The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will inquire,"
Isaiah 26:2: "ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in."
Isaiah 42:20: "Seeing many things, but thou observest not; opening the ears, but he heareth not."
Isaiah 56:1: "Thus saith the LORD, Keep ye judgment, and do justice: for"
Isaiah 56:2: "and the son of man that layeth hold on it; that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and keepeth"
Isaiah 56:2: "on it; that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and keepeth his hand from doing"
Isaiah 56:4: "the LORD unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that"
Isaiah 56:6: "to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold"
Isaiah 62:6: "I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace"
Jeremiah 3:5: "Will he reserve his anger forever? will he keep it to the end? Behold, thou hast spoken and done evil things"
Jeremiah 4:17: " As keepers of a field, are they against her round about; because she hath been rebellious"
Jeremiah 5:24: "both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest."
Jeremiah 8:7: "and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people"
Jeremiah 9:4: " Take ye heed every one of his neighbor, and trust ye not in any"
Jeremiah 16:11: "and have served them, and have worshiped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my law;"
Jeremiah 17:21: "Thus saith the LORD; Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden"
Jeremiah 20:10: "Report, say they, and we will report it. All my familiars watched for my halting, saying, Peradventure"
Jeremiah 31:10: "and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd doth his flock."
Jeremiah 35:4: "the chamber of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper of the door:"
Jeremiah 35:18: "ye have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all"
Jeremiah 51:12: "make the watch strong, set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes: for the LORD"
Jeremiah 52:24: "the second priest, and the three keepers of the door:"
Ezekiel 11:20: "That they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them: and they shall be"
Ezekiel 17:14: "base, that it might not lift itself up, but that by keeping of his covenant it might stand."
Ezekiel 18:9: "Hath walked in my statutes, and hath kept my judgments, to deal truly; he is just,"
Ezekiel 18:19: "hath done that which is lawful and right, and hath kept all my statutes, and hath done"
Ezekiel 18:21: "from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes,"
Ezekiel 20:18: "in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols:"
Ezekiel 20:19: "your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do"
Ezekiel 20:21: "not in my statutes, neither kept my judgments to do them, which if a man"
Ezekiel 36:27: "you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do"
Ezekiel 37:24: "shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do"
Ezekiel 40:45: "is toward the south, is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the house."
Ezekiel 40:46: "is toward the north is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the altar: these are the sons"
Ezekiel 43:11: "thereof, and all the laws thereof: and write it in their sight, that they may keep the whole form"
Ezekiel 44:8: "And ye have not kept the charge of mine holy things: but ye have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary"
Ezekiel 44:8: "the charge of mine holy things: but ye have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary"
Ezekiel 44:14: "But I will make them keepers of the charge of the house, for all the service thereof, and for all that"
Ezekiel 44:15: "the sons of Zadok, that kept the charge of my sanctuary when the children"
Ezekiel 44:16: "to my table, to minister unto me, and they shall keep my charge."
Ezekiel 44:24: "in judgment; and they shall judge it according to my judgments: and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all mine assemblies;"
Ezekiel 48:11: "of the sons of Zadok; which have kept my charge, which went not astray"
Daniel 9:4: "the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep"
Daniel 9:4: "the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments;"
