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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

Some verses contain the word more than once.

First occurrence: Genesis 2:15

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Psalms 119:115
Depart from me, ye evildoers: for I will keep the commandments of my God.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Psalms 119:115 · retained source text

Depart from me, ye euil doers: for I will keepe the Commandements of my God.

1611 marginal noteMatth. 7.23.

Psalms 119:134
Deliver me from the oppression of man: so will I keep thy precepts.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Psalms 119:134 · retained source text

Deliuer me from the oppression of man: so will I keepe thy precepts.

Psalms 119:136
Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Psalms 119:136 · retained source text

Riuers of waters runne downe mine eyes: because they keepe not thy Law.

Psalms 119:146
I cried unto thee; save me, and I shall keep thy testimonies.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Psalms 119:146 · retained source text

I cried vnto thee, saue me: and I shall keepe thy testimonies.

1611 marginal noteOr, that I may keepe.

Psalms 127:1
EXCEPT the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Psalms 127:1 · retained source text

¶ Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vaine that build it: except the LORD keepe the citie, the watchman waketh but in vaine.

Psalms 132:12
If thy children will keep my covenant and my testimony that I shall teach them, their children shall also sit upon thy throne for evermore.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Psalms 132:12 · retained source text

If thy children will keepe my couenant and my testimonie, that I shall teach them; their children also shall sit vpon thy throne for euermore.

Psalms 140:4
keep me, O Lord, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the violent man; who have purposed to overthrow my goings.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Psalms 140:4 · retained source text

Keepe me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked, preserue me from the violent man: who haue purposed to ouerthrow my goings.

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