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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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Jeremiah 42:4

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Then Jeremiah the prophet said unto them, I have heard you; behold, I will pray unto the Lord your God according to your words; and it shall come to pass, that whatsoever thing the Lord shall answer you, I will declare it unto you; I will keep nothing back from you.

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1611 witness · Jeremiah 42:4 · retained source text

Then Ieremiah the prophet sayd vnto them, I haue heard you; behold, I will pray vnto the LORD your God, according to your words, and it shall come to passe that whatsoeuer thing the LORD shall answere you, I will declare it vnto you: I will keepe nothing backe from you.

Lamentations 2:10

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The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.

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1611 witness · Lamentations 2:10 · retained source text

The Elders of the daughter of Zion sit vpon the ground and keepe silence: they haue cast vp dust vpon their heads: they haue girded themselues with sackcloth: the virgins of Ierusalem hang downe their heades to the ground.

Ezekiel 11:20

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That they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.

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1611 witness · Ezekiel 11:20 · retained source text

That they may walke in my statutes, and keepe mine ordinances, and doe them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.

Ezekiel 18:21

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But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.

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1611 witness · Ezekiel 18:21 · retained source text

But if the wicked will turne from all his sinnes that he hath committed and keepe all my statutes, and doe that which is lawful and right, he shall surely liue, he shall not die.

Ezekiel 20:19

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I am the Lord your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them;

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1611 witness · Ezekiel 20:19 · retained source text

I am the LORD your God: walke in my statutes, and keepe my iudgements and doe them:

Ezekiel 36:27

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And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.

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1611 witness · Ezekiel 36:27 · retained source text

And I wil put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walke in my Statutes, and ye shall keepe my iudgements, and doe them.

1611 marginal noteChap. 11.19.

Ezekiel 43:11

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And if they be ashamed of all that they have done, shew them the form of the house, and the fashion thereof, and the goings out thereof, and the comings in thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the laws thereof: and write it in their sight, that they may keep the whole form thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and do them.

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1611 witness · Ezekiel 43:11 · retained source text

And if they be ashamed of all that they haue done; shew them the forme of the house, and the fashion thereof, and the goings out thereof, and the commings in thereof, and all the formes thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and all the formes thereof, and all the lawes thereof: & write it in their sight, that they may keepe the whole forme thereof, and all the Ordinances therof, and doe them.

Ezekiel 44:16

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They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to minister unto me, and they shall keep my charge.

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They shall enter into my sanctuarie, and they shall come neere to my table to minister vnto mee, and they shall keepe my charge.

Ezekiel 44:24

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And in controversy they shall stand in judgment; and they shall judge it according to my judgments: and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all mine assemblies; and they shall hallow my sabbaths.

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1611 witness · Ezekiel 44:24 · retained source text

And in controuersie they shall stand in iudgement, and they shall iudge it according to my iudgements: and they shall keepe my lawes and my statutes in all mine assemblies, and they shall halow my Sabbaths.

Daniel 9:4

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And I prayed unto the Lord my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments;

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1611 witness · Daniel 9:4 · retained source text

And I prayed vnto the LORD my God, and made my confession, and said; O LORD, the great and dreadfull God, keeping the couenant, and mercy to them that loue him, and to them that keepe his Commandements:

1611 marginal noteNehe.1.5. deut.7.9.

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