שָׁמַר

sha.mar · to keep: obey

Hebrew · Strong's H8104 · Verb · Sounds like: shaw-mar' · 469 occurrences

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)

Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
שָׁמַר 465 vb. keep, watch, preserve
Qal 425
1.
a. keep, have charge of
b. keep, guard, captives
c. hence, watch for, wait for
d. watch, observe
2.
a. keep, retain, of storing up (food)
b. keep within bounds, restrain
3.
a. observe, celebrate
b. keep sabbath
c. of other obligations
d. observe = follow dictates of (prudence, justice, kindness, wisdom)
4. sts. י׳ subj.
5. keep, reserve, weeks of harvest
Niph. 36
1. be on one's guard
2. keep oneself, refrain, abstain
3. be kept, guarded
Pi. those paying regard to false vanities
Hithp. I kept myself from

Every occurrence

  1. Job 2:6 שְׁמֹֽר׃ she.Mor · A command to you: simple action

    And Jehovah said unto Satan, Behold, he is in thy hand; only spare his life.

  2. Job 10:12 שָֽׁמְרָ֥ה sha.me.Rah · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    Thou hast granted me life and lovingkindness; And thy visitation hath preserved my spirit.

  3. Job 10:14 וּשְׁמַרְתָּ֑נִי u.she.mar.Ta.ni · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by you

    If I sin, then thou markest me, And thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.

  4. Job 13:27 וְתִשְׁמ֥וֹר ve.tish.Mor · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by you

    Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, And markest all my paths; Thou settest a bound to the soles of my feet:

  5. Job 14:16 תִ֝שְׁמ֗וֹר tish.Mor · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by you

    But now thou numberest my steps: Dost thou not watch over my sin?

  6. Job 22:15 תִּשְׁמֹ֑ר tish.Mor · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by you

    Wilt thou keep the old way Which wicked men have trodden?

  7. Job 23:11 שָׁמַ֣רְתִּי sha.Mar.ti · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by me

    My foot hath held fast to his steps; His way have I kept, and turned not aside.

  8. Job 24:15 שָׁ֤מְרָֽה Sha.me.rah · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, Saying, No eye shall see me: And he disguiseth his face.

  9. Job 29:2 יִשְׁמְרֵֽנִי׃ yish.me.Re.ni · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    Oh that I were as in the months of old, As in the days when God watched over me;

  10. Job 33:11 יִ֝שְׁמֹ֗ר yish.Mor · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    He putteth my feet in the stocks, He marketh all my paths.

  11. Job 36:21 הִ֭שָּׁמֶר Hi.sha.mer · A command to you: receiving the action

    Take heed, regard not iniquity: For this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.

  12. Job 39:1 תִּשְׁמֹֽר׃ tish.Mor · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by you

    Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? Or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve?

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