שָׁמַר

Word meanings

Senses and individuals

• to keep: obey H8104G 202
• to keep: guard H8104H · a Meaning of 161
• to keep: careful H8104J · a Meaning of 77
• to keep: look at H8104I · a Meaning of 29

Strong's dictionary

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).

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)

Every occurrence

1. 2 Kings 6:9 הִשָּׁ֕מֶר hi.Sha.mer · A command to you: receiving the action

   And the man of God sent unto the king of Israel, saying, Beware that thou pass not such a place; for thither the Syrians are coming down.

2. 2 Kings 6:10 וְנִשְׁמַ֣ר ve.nish.Mar · An action: receiving the action, and then it will happen, done by him, her or it

   And the king of Israel sent to the place which the man of God told him and warned him of; and he saved himself there, not once nor twice.

3. 2 Kings 9:14 שֹׁמֵ֜ר sho.Mer · An -ing word: simple action

   So Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi conspired against Joram. (Now Joram was keeping Ramoth-gilead, he and all Israel, because of Hazael king of Syria;

4. 2 Kings 10:31 שָׁמַ֛ר sha.Mar · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

   But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of Jehovah, the God of Israel, with all his heart: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam, wherewith he made Israel to sin.

5. 2 Kings 11:5 וְשֹׁ֣מְרֵ֔י ve.Sho.me.Rei · An -ing word: simple action

   And he commanded them, saying, This is the thing that ye shall do: a third part of you, that come in on the sabbath, shall be keepers of the watch of the king's house;

6. 2 Kings 11:6 וּשְׁמַרְתֶּ֛ם u.she.mar.Tem · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by all of you

   And a third part shall be at the gate Sur; and a third part at the gate behind the guard: so shall ye keep the watch of the house, and be a barrier.

7. 2 Kings 11:7 וְשָֽׁמְר֛וּ ve.sha.me.Ru · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by them

   And the two companies of you, even all that go forth on the sabbath, shall keep the watch of the house of Jehovah about the king.

8. 2 Kings 12:9 שֹׁמְרֵ֣י sho.me.Rei · An -ing word: simple action

   But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid of it, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one cometh into the house of Jehovah: and the priests that kept the threshold put therein all the money that was brought into the house of Jehovah.

9. 2 Kings 17:13 וְשִׁמְרוּ֙ ve.shim.Ru · A command to all of you: simple action

   Yet Jehovah testified unto Israel, and unto Judah, by every prophet, and every seer, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.

10. 2 Kings 17:19 שָׁמַ֔ר sha.Mar · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    Also Judah kept not the commandments of Jehovah their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.

11. 2 Kings 17:37 תִּשְׁמְר֥וּן tish.me.Run · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by all of you

    and the statutes and the ordinances, and the law and the commandment, which he wrote for you, ye shall observe to do for evermore; and ye shall not fear other gods:

12. 2 Kings 18:6 וַיִּשְׁמֹר֙ vai.yish.Mor · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    For he clave to Jehovah; he departed not from following him, but kept his commandments, which Jehovah commanded Moses.

13. 2 Kings 21:8 יִשְׁמְר֣וּ yish.me.Ru · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by them

    neither will I cause the feet of Israel to wander any more out of the land which I gave their fathers, if only they will observe to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them.

14. 2 Kings 22:4 שֹׁמְרֵ֥י sho.me.Rei · An -ing word: simple action

    Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may sum the money which is brought into the house of Jehovah, which the keepers of the threshold have gathered of the people:

15. 2 Kings 22:14 שֹׁמֵ֣ר sho.Mer · An -ing word: simple action

    So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asaiah, went unto Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the second quarter); and they communed with her.

16. 2 Kings 23:3 וְלִשְׁמֹ֨ר ve.lish.Mor · The “to do” form of an action: simple action

    And the king stood by the pillar, and made a covenant before Jehovah, to walk after Jehovah, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and all his soul, to confirm the words of this covenant that were written in this book: and all the people stood to the covenant.

17. 2 Kings 23:4 שֹׁמְרֵ֣י sho.me.Rei · An -ing word: simple action

    And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the threshold, to bring forth out of the temple of Jehovah all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the Asherah, and for all the host of heaven, and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Beth-el.

18. 2 Kings 25:18 שֹׁמְרֵ֥י sho.me.Rei · An -ing word: simple action

    And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the threshold:

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