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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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Psalms 12:7
Thou shalt keep them, O Lord, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Psalms 12:7 · retained source text

Thou shalt keepe them, (O LORD,) thou shalt preserue them, from this generation for euer.

1611 marginal noteHeb. him.i.euery one of them.

Psalms 17:8
keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings,
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Psalms 17:8 · retained source text

Keepe me as the apple of the eye: hide mee vnder the shadowe of thy wings,

Psalms 19:13
keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Psalms 19:13 · retained source text

Keepe back thy seruant also from presumptuous sinnes, let them not haue dominion ouer me: then shall I be vpright, and I shalbe innocent from the great transgression.

1611 marginal noteOr, much.

Psalms 22:29
All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Psalms 22:29 · retained source text

All they that be fat vpon earth shall eate and worship: all they that goe downe to the dust shall bow before him, and none can keepe aliue his owne soule.

Psalms 25:20
O keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed; for I put my trust in thee.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Psalms 25:20 · retained source text

O keepe my soule and deliuer me: let me not bee ashamed, for I put my trust in thee.

Psalms 31:20
Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Psalms 31:20 · retained source text

Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence, from the pride of man: thou shalt keepe them secretly in a pauilion, from the strife of tongues.

Psalms 33:19
To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Psalms 33:19 · retained source text

To deliuer their soule from death, and to keepe them aliue in famine.

Psalms 34:13
keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Psalms 34:13 · retained source text

Keepe thy tongue from euill, and thy lippes from speaking guile.

Psalms 35:22
This thou hast seen, O Lord: keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Psalms 35:22 · retained source text

This thou hast seene (O LORD) keepe not silence: O LORD be not farre from me.

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