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keep

Meaning of “keep”

To guard, watch, protect, preserve, secure, retain, possess, hold, maintain, support, tend, manage, observe, obey, fulfil, celebrate, continue in, refrain from, or remain faithful to a person, place, trust, command, promise, way, time, or thing.

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362 occurrences354 verses52 booksKJV PCE

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First occurrence: Genesis 2:15

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Ecclesiastes 3:6
A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Ecclesiastes 3:6 · retained source text

A time to get, and a time to lose: a time to keepe, and a time to cast away.

1611 marginal noteOr, seeke.

Ecclesiastes 3:7
A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Ecclesiastes 3:7 · retained source text

A time to rent, and a time to sow: a time to keepe silence, and a time to speake.

Ecclesiastes 5:1
keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Ecclesiastes 5:1 · retained source text

¶ Kepe thy foote when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to heare, then to giue the sacrifice of fooles: for they consider not that they doe euill.

1611 marginal note1.Sam.15 22. psal.50.8. prou.15.8. & 21.27.

Ecclesiastes 8:2
I counsel thee to keep the king’s commandment, and that in regard of the oath of God.
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1611 witness · Ecclesiastes 8:2 · retained source text

I counsell thee, to keepe the kings commandement, and that in regard of the oath of God.

Ecclesiastes 12:13
¶ Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
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1611 witness · Ecclesiastes 12:13 · retained source text

¶ Let vs heare the conclusion of the whole matter: Feare God, and keepe his commandements, for this is the whole duetie of man.

1611 marginal noteOr, the end of the matter, euen all that hath bene heard, is.

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