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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 103:18
To such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his commandments to do them.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Psalms 103:18 · retained source text

To such as keepe his couenant: and to those that remember his commandements to doe them.

1611 marginal noteDeut.7.9.

Psalms 106:3
Blessed are they that keep judgment, and he that doeth righteousness at all times.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Psalms 106:3 · retained source text

Blessed are they that keepe iudgement: and he that doeth righteousnesse at all times.

Psalms 113:9
He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the Lord.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Psalms 113:9 · retained source text

He maketh the barren woman to keepe house; to be a ioyfull mother of children: Praise yee the LORD.

1611 marginal noteHeb. to dwell in an house.

Psalms 119:2
Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Psalms 119:2 · retained source text

Blessed are they that keepe his testimonies: and that seeke him with the whole heart.

Psalms 119:5
O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Psalms 119:5 · retained source text

O that my wayes were directed to keepe thy statutes!

Psalms 119:8
I will keep thy statutes: O forsake me not utterly.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Psalms 119:8 · retained source text

I will keepe thy statutes: O forsake me not vtterly.

Psalms 119:33
Teach me, O Lord, the way of thy statutes; and I shall keep it unto the end.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Psalms 119:33 · retained source text

¶ Teach me, O LORD, the way of thy Statutes: and I shall keepe it vnto the end.

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