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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Nehemiah 1:5 שֹׁמֵ֤ר sho.Mer · An -ing word: simple action
and said, I beseech thee, O Jehovah, the God of heaven, the great and terrible God, that keepeth covenant and lovingkindness with them that love him and keep his commandments:
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Nehemiah 1:5 וּלְשֹׁמְרֵ֥י u.le.sho.me.Rei · An -ing word: simple action
and said, I beseech thee, O Jehovah, the God of heaven, the great and terrible God, that keepeth covenant and lovingkindness with them that love him and keep his commandments:
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Nehemiah 1:7 שָׁמַ֣רְנוּ sha.Mar.nu · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by us
we have dealt very corruptly against thee, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the ordinances, which thou commandedst thy servant Moses.
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Nehemiah 1:9 וּשְׁמַרְתֶּם֙ u.she.mar.Tem · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by all of you
but if ye return unto me, and keep my commandments and do them, though your outcasts were in the uttermost part of the heavens, yet will I gather them from thence, and will bring them unto the place that I have chosen, to cause my name to dwell there.
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Nehemiah 2:8 שֹׁמֵ֨ר sho.Mer · An -ing word: simple action
and a letter unto Asaph the keeper of the king's forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the castle which appertaineth to the house, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall enter into. And the king granted me, according to the good hand of my God upon me.
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Nehemiah 3:29 שֹׁמֵ֖ר sho.Mer · An -ing word: simple action
After them repaired Zadok the son of Immer over against his own house. And after him repaired Shemaiah the son of Shecaniah, the keeper of the east gate.
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Nehemiah 9:32 שׁוֹמֵ֣ר sho.Mer · An -ing word: simple action
Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the terrible God, who keepest covenant and lovingkindness, let not all the travail seem little before thee, that hath come upon us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all thy people, since the time of the kings of Assyria unto this day.
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Nehemiah 10:29 וְלִשְׁמ֣וֹר ve.lish.Mor · The “to do” form of an action: simple action
They clave to their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God's law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of Jehovah our Lord, and his ordinances and his statutes;
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Nehemiah 11:19 הַשֹּׁמְרִ֣ים ha.sho.me.Rim · An -ing word: simple action
Moreover the porters, Akkub, Talmon, and their brethren, that kept watch at the gates, were a hundred seventy and two.
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Nehemiah 12:25 שֹׁמְרִ֤ים sho.me.Rim · An -ing word: simple action
Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were porters keeping the watch at the store-houses of the gates.
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Nehemiah 12:45 וַֽיִּשְׁמְר֞וּ vai.yish.me.Ru · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by them
And they kept the charge of their God, and the charge of the purification, and so did the singers and the porters, according to the commandment of David, and of Solomon his son.
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Nehemiah 13:22 שֹׁמְרִ֣ים sho.me.Rim · An -ing word: simple action
And I commanded the Levites that they should purify themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the sabbath day. Remember unto me, O my God, this also, and spare me according to the greatness of thy lovingkindness.
American Standard Version (1901). Public domain.