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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 21–24 of 24 · 25 word occurrences in this result

Numbers 31:18
But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Numbers 31:18 · retained source text

But all the women children that haue not knowen a man by lying with him, keepe aliue for your selues.

Numbers 31:30
And of the children of Israel’s half, thou shalt take one portion of fifty, of the persons, of the beeves, of the asses, and of the flocks, of all manner of beasts, and give them unto the Levites, which keep the charge of the tabernacle of the Lord.
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The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Numbers 31:30 · retained source text

And of the children of Israels halfe, thou shalt take one portion of fiftie, of the persons, of the beeues, of the asses, and of the flockes, of all maner of beasts, and giue them vnto the Leuites, which keepe the charge of the Tabernacle of the LORD.

1611 marginal noteOr, goats.

Numbers 36:7
So shall not the inheritance of the children of Israel remove from tribe to tribe: for every one of the children of Israel shall keep himself to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Numbers 36:7 · retained source text

So shall not the inheritance of the children of Israel remooue from tribe to tribe: for euery one of the children of Israel shall keepe himselfe to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.

1611 marginal noteHebr. cleaue to the &c.

Numbers 36:9
Neither shall the inheritance remove from one tribe to another tribe; but every one of the tribes of the children of Israel shall keep himself to his own inheritance.
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1611 witness · Numbers 36:9 · retained source text

Neither shall the inheritance remoue from one tribe to another tribe: but euery one of the tribes of the children of Israel, shall keepe himselfe to his owne inheritance.

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