Strong's #5083: tereo (pronounced tay-reh'-o)
from teros (a watch; perhaps akin to 2334); to guard (from loss or injury, properly, by keeping the eye upon; and thus differing from 5442, which is properly to prevent escaping; and from 2892, which implies a fortress or full military lines of apparatus), i.e. to note (a prophecy; figuratively, to fulfil a command); by implication, to detain (in custody; figuratively, to maintain); by extension, to withhold (for personal ends; figuratively, to keep unmarried); by extension, to withhold (for personal ends; figuratively, to keep unmarried):--hold fast, keep(- er), (pre-, re-)serve, watch.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon:
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tēreō
1) to attend to carefully, take care of
1a) to guard
1b) metaphorically to keep, one in the state in which he is
1c) to observe
1d) to reserve: to undergo something
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: from teros (a watch, perhaps akin to G2334)
Citing in TDNT: 8:140, 1174
Usage:
This word is used 77 times:
Matthew 19:17: "enter into life, keep the commandments."
Matthew 23:3: "whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do;"
Matthew 23:3: "whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but"
Matthew 27:36: "And sitting down they watched him there;"
Matthew 27:54: "they that were with him, watching Jesus, saw the earthquake,"
Matthew 28:4: "fear of him the keepers did shake, and became as"
Matthew 28:20: "Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and,"
Mark 7:9: "commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition."
John 2:10: "then that which is worse: but thou hast kept the good wine until"
John 8:51: "unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall never"
John 8:52: "sayest, If a man keep my saying, he shall never"
John 8:55: "I know him, and keep his saying."
John 9:16: "of God, because he keepeth not the sabbath day. Others"
John 12:7: "the day of my burying hath she kept this."
John 14:15: "If ye love me, keep my commandments."
John 14:21: "my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth"
John 14:23: "a man love me, he will keep my words: and my"
John 14:24: "He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and"
John 15:10: "If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love;"
John 15:10: "love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and"
John 15:20: "persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours"
John 15:20: "they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also."
John 17:6: "them me; and they have kept thy word."
John 17:6: "them me; and they have kept thy word."
John 17:11: "thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those"
John 17:12: "the world, I kept them in thy name:"
John 17:15: "world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil."
Acts 12:5: "Peter therefore was kept in prison: but prayer"
Acts 12:6: "and the keepers before the door"
Acts 12:6: "and the keepers before the door"
Acts 15:5: "them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses."
Acts 15:24: "saying, Ye must be circumcised, and keep the law: to whom we gave no such commandment:"
Acts 16:23: "charging the jailer to keep them safely:"
Acts 21:25: "have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep"
Acts 24:23: "And he commanded a centurion to keep Paul, and to let him have liberty,"
Acts 25:4: "Festus answered, that Paul should be kept at Caesarea, and that he himself"
Acts 25:21: "when Paul had appealed to be reserved unto the hearing of Augustus,"
Acts 25:21: "of Augustus, I commanded him to be kept till I might send him"
1 Corinthians 7:37: "in his heart that he will keep his virgin, doeth well."
2 Corinthians 11:9: "and in all things I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and"
2 Corinthians 11:9: "from being burdensome unto you, and so will I keep"
Ephesians 4:3: "Endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the"
1 Thessalonians 5:23: "soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming"
1 Timothy 5:22: "be partaker of other men's sins: keep thyself pure."
1 Timothy 6:14: "That thou keep this commandment without spot, unrebukable, until the appearing"
2 Timothy 4:7: "fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:"
James 1:27: "in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the"
James 2:10: "For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend"
1 Peter 1:4: "undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,"
2 Peter 2:4: "and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;"
