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. Jeremiah 3:5 יִשְׁמֹ֖ר yish.Mor · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

   Will he retain his anger for ever? will he keep it to the end? Behold, thou hast spoken and hast done evil things, and hast had thy way.

2. Jeremiah 4:17 כְּשֹׁמְרֵ֣י ke.sho.me.Rei · An -ing word: simple action

   As keepers of a field are they against her round about, because she hath been rebellious against me, saith Jehovah.

3. Jeremiah 5:24 יִשְׁמָר־ yish.mor- · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

   Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear Jehovah our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in its season; that preserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.

4. Jeremiah 8:7 שָׁמְר֖וּ sha.me.Ru · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by them

   Yea, the stork in the heavens knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle-dove and the swallow and the crane observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the law of Jehovah.

5. Jeremiah 9:4 הִשָּׁמֵ֔רוּ hi.sha.Me.ru · A command to all of you: receiving the action

   Take ye heed every one of his neighbor, and trust ye not in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go about with slanders.

6. Jeremiah 16:11 שָׁמָֽרוּ׃ sha.Ma.ru · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by them

   Then shalt thou say unto them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, saith Jehovah, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshipped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my law;

7. Jeremiah 17:21 הִשָּׁמְר֖וּ hi.sha.me.Ru · A command to all of you: receiving the action

   Thus saith Jehovah, Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden on the sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem;

8. Jeremiah 20:10 שֹׁמְרֵ֖י sho.me.Rei · An -ing word: simple action

   For I have heard the defaming of many, terror on every side. Denounce, and we will denounce him, say all my familiar friends, they that watch for my fall; peradventure he will be persuaded, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.

9. Jeremiah 31:10 וּשְׁמָר֖וֹ u.she.ma.Ro · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by him, her or it

   Hear the word of Jehovah, O ye nations, and declare it in the isles afar off; and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd doth his flock.

10. Jeremiah 35:4 שֹׁמֵ֥ר sho.Mer · An -ing word: simple action

    and I brought them into the house of Jehovah, into the chamber of the sons of Hanan the son of Igdaliah, the man of God, which was by the chamber of the princes, which was above the chamber of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper of the threshold.

11. Jeremiah 35:18 וַֽתִּשְׁמְרוּ֙ va.tish.me.Ru · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by all of you

    And Jeremiah said unto the house of the Rechabites, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Because ye have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done according unto all that he commanded you;

12. Jeremiah 51:12 שֹֽׁמְרִ֔ים sho.me.Rim · An -ing word: simple action

    Set up a standard against the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set the watchmen, prepare the ambushes; for Jehovah hath both purposed and done that which he spake concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.

13. Jeremiah 52:24 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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