KJV dictionary & concordance
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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Some verses contain the word more than once.
First occurrence: Genesis 2:15
Complete exact-word concordance
For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips.
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.
They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but such as keep the law contend with them.
They that forsake the law, praise the wicked: but such as keepe the Law, contend with them.
A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
A time to get, and a time to lose: a time to keepe, and a time to cast away.
1611 marginal noteOr, seeke.
A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
A time to rent, and a time to sow: a time to keepe silence, and a time to speake.
keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.
¶ Kepe thy foote when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to heare, then to giue the sacrifice of fooles: for they consider not that they doe euill.
1611 marginal note1.Sam.15 22. psal.50.8. prou.15.8. & 21.27.
I counsel thee to keep the king’s commandment, and that in regard of the oath of God.
I counsell thee, to keepe the kings commandement, and that in regard of the oath of God.
¶ Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
¶ Let vs heare the conclusion of the whole matter: Feare God, and keepe his commandements, for this is the whole duetie of man.
1611 marginal noteOr, the end of the matter, euen all that hath bene heard, is.
My vineyard, which is mine, is before me: thou, O Solomon, must have a thousand, and those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred.
My vineyard which is mine, is before me: thou (O Solomon) must haue a thousand, and those that keepe the fruit thereof, two hundred.
Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.
Thou wilt keepe him in perfect peace, whose minde is stayed on thee; because he trusteth in thee.
1611 marginal noteHebr. peace, peace.
1611 marginal noteOr, thought, or imagination.
I the Lord do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day.
I the LORD doe keepe it; I will water it euery moment: lest any hurt it, I will keepe it night and day.
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