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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 21 · 21 word occurrences in this result

Proverbs 6:20
¶ My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Proverbs 6:20 · retained source text

¶ My sonne, keepe thy fathers commandement, and forsake not the law of thy mother.

1611 marginal noteChap.1.8.

Proverbs 6:22
When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Proverbs 6:22 · retained source text

When thou goest, it shall leade thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keepe thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talke with thee.

Proverbs 6:24
To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Proverbs 6:24 · retained source text

To keepe thee from the euill woman, from the flatterie of the tongue of a strange woman.

1611 marginal noteOr, of the strange tongue.

1611 marginal noteCha.2.16. and 5.3. and 7.5.

Proverbs 7:2
keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Proverbs 7:2 · retained source text

Keepe my commandements, and liue: and my law as the apple of thine eye.

1611 marginal noteDeut.6.8. & 11.18. chap.3.3.

Proverbs 7:5
That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Proverbs 7:5 · retained source text

That they may keepe thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.

1611 marginal noteChap.5.3.

Proverbs 8:32
Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Proverbs 8:32 · retained source text

Nowe therefore hearken vnto me, O yee children: for blessed are they that keepe my wayes.

1611 marginal notePsal.119.1, 2. and 128.1. luc.11.28.

Proverbs 22:5
Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward: he that doth keep his soul shall be far from them.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Proverbs 22:5 · retained source text

Thornes and snares are in the way of the froward: he that doeth keepe his soule, shalbe farre from them.

Proverbs 22:18
For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Proverbs 22:18 · retained source text

For it is a pleasant thing, if thou keepe them within thee; they shall withall be fitted in thy lippes.

1611 marginal noteHeb. in thy belly.

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