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:
2 Peter 2:9: "out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment"
2 Peter 2:17: "the mist of darkness is reserved forever."
2 Peter 3:7: "word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment"
1 John 2:3: "that we know him, if we keep his commandments."
1 John 2:4: "I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is"
1 John 2:5: "But whoso keepeth his word, in him"
1 John 3:22: "we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and"
1 John 3:24: "And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and"
1 John 5:2: "we love God, and keep his commandments."
1 John 5:3: "love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his"
1 John 5:18: "he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth"
Jude 1:1: "God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called."
Jude 1:6: "And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left"
Jude 1:6: "left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness"
Jude 1:13: "wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever."
Jude 1:21: " Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy"
Revelation 1:3: "words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for"
Revelation 2:26: "And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end,"
Revelation 3:3: "and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore"
Revelation 3:8: "a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not"
Revelation 3:10: "Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep"
Revelation 3:10: "of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour"
Revelation 12:17: "remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and"
Revelation 14:12: "of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and"
Revelation 16:15: "Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk"
Revelation 22:7: "I come quickly: blessed is he that keepeth the saying of the prophecy"
Revelation 22:9: "the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book:"
