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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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Job 14:13
O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Job 14:13 · retained source text

O that thou wouldest hide mee in the graue, that thou wouldest keepe me secret, vntill thy wrath bee past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me.

Job 20:13
Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Job 20:13 · retained source text

Though he spare it, and forsake it not, but keepe it stil within his mouth:

1611 marginal noteHebr. in the midst of his palate.

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