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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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Showing verses 11–20 of 23 · 25 word occurrences in this result

Exodus 19:5
Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Exodus 19:5 · retained source text

Now therfore if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keepe my couenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure vnto me aboue all people: for all the earth is mine.

1611 marginal noteDeut. 5.2.

1611 marginal noteDeut. 10.14. psal. 24.1.

Exodus 20:6
And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Exodus 20:6 · retained source text

And shewing mercy vnto thousands of them that loue mee, and keepe my Commandements.

Exodus 22:7
¶ If a man shall deliver unto his neighbour money or stuff to keep, and it be stolen out of the man’s house; if the thief be found, let him pay double.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Exodus 22:7 · retained source text

¶ If a man shal deliuer vnto his neighbour money or stuffe to keepe, and it be stollen out of the mans house; if the thiefe be found, let him pay double.

Exodus 22:10
If a man deliver unto his neighbour an ass, or an ox, or a sheep, or any beast, to keep; and it die, or be hurt, or driven away, no man seeing it:
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Exodus 22:10 · retained source text

If a man deliuer vnto his neighbour an asse, or an oxe, or a sheepe, or any beast to keepe, and it die, or be hurt, or driuen away, no man seeing it,

Exodus 23:7
keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Exodus 23:7 · retained source text

Keepe thee farre from a false matter: and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not iustifie the wicked.

Exodus 23:14
¶ Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Exodus 23:14 · retained source text

¶ Three times thou shalt keepe a feast vnto me in the yeere.

1611 marginal noteDeut. 16.16.

Exodus 23:15
Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall appear before me empty:)
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Exodus 23:15 · retained source text

Thou shalt keepe the feast of vnleauened bread: thou shalt eate vnleauened bread seuen daies, as I commanded thee in the time appointed of the moneth Abib: for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall appeare before me emptie:

1611 marginal noteChap. 13.3 & 34.18.

1611 marginal noteDeut. 16.16. ecclus. 35.4.

Exodus 23:20
¶ Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Exodus 23:20 · retained source text

¶ Behold, I send an Angel before thee to keepe thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I haue prepared.

1611 marginal noteChap. 33.2.

Exodus 31:13
Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the Lord that doth sanctify you.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Exodus 31:13 · retained source text

Speake thou also vnto the children of Israel, saying, Uerely my Sabbaths ye shall keepe: for it is a signe betweene me and you, throughout your generations, that ye may know that I am the LORD, that doth sanctifie you.

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