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)
Every occurrence
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Malachi 2:7 יִשְׁמְרוּ־ yish.me.ru- · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by them
For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of Jehovah of hosts.
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Malachi 2:9 שֹׁמְרִ֣ים sho.me.Rim · An -ing word: simple action
Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have had respect of persons in the law.
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Malachi 2:15 וְנִשְׁמַרְתֶּם֙ ve.nish.mar.Tem · An action: receiving the action, and then it will happen, done by all of you
And did he not make one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? And wherefore one? He sought a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
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Malachi 2:16 וְנִשְׁמַרְתֶּ֥ם ve.nish.mar.Tem · An action: receiving the action, and then it will happen, done by all of you
For I hate putting away, saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, and him that covereth his garment with violence, saith Jehovah of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.
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Malachi 3:7 שְׁמַרְתֶּ֔ם she.mar.Tem · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by all of you
From the days of your fathers ye have turned aside from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith Jehovah of hosts. But ye say, Wherein shall we return?
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Malachi 3:14 שָׁמַ֙רְנוּ֙ sha.Mar.nu · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by us
Ye have said, It is vain to serve God; and what profit is it that we have kept his charge, and that we have walked mournfully before Jehovah of hosts?
American Standard Version (1901). Public domain.