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
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Jonah 2:8 מְשַׁמְּרִ֖ים me.sha.me.Rim · An -ing word: strong action
They that regard lying vanities Forsake their own mercy.
American Standard Version (1901). Public domain.