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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 191–200 of 354 · 362 word occurrences in this result

Psalms 37:34
Wait on the Lord, and keep his way, and he shall exalt thee to inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see it.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Psalms 37:34 · retained source text

Wait on the LORD, and keepe his way, and he shall exalt thee to inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see it.

Psalms 39:1
I SAID, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Psalms 39:1 · retained source text

¶ I sayd, I will take heede to my waies, that I sinne not with my tongue: I will keepe my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.

Psalms 41:2
The Lord will preserve him, and keep him alive; and he shall be blessed upon the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Psalms 41:2 · retained source text

The LORD will preserue him, and keepe him aliue, and he shall be blessed vpon the earth; and thou wilt not deliuer him vnto the will of his enemies.

1611 marginal noteOr, doe not thou deliuer.

Psalms 50:3
Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Psalms 50:3 · retained source text

Our God shall come, and shall not keepe silence: a fire shall deuoure before him, and it shalbe very tempestuous round about him.

Psalms 78:7
That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Psalms 78:7 · retained source text

That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God: but keepe his Commandements,

Psalms 83:1
keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Psalms 83:1 · retained source text

¶ Keepe not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.

Psalms 89:28
My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Psalms 89:28 · retained source text

My mercy will I keepe for him for euermore: and my couenant shall stand fast with him.

Psalms 89:31
If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments;
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Psalms 89:31 · retained source text

If they breake my statutes, and keepe not my commandements:

1611 marginal noteHeb. profane my statutes.

Psalms 91:11
For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Psalms 91:11 · retained source text

For hee shall giue his Angels charge ouer thee: to keepe thee in all thy wayes.

1611 marginal noteMatt. 4.6. luke 4.10.

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