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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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Amos 5:13
Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Amos 5:13 · retained source text

Therefore the prudent shall keepe silence in that time, for it is an euill time.

Micah 7:5
¶ Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Micah 7:5 · retained source text

¶ Trust yee not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keepe the doores of thy mouth from her that lyeth in thy bosome.

Nahum 1:15
Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace! O Judah, keep thy solemn feasts, perform thy vows: for the wicked shall no more pass through thee; he is utterly cut off.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Nahum 1:15 · retained source text

Behold vpon the mountaines the feete of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace. O Iudah keepe thy solemne feasts, performe thy vowes: for the wicked shall no more passe through thee, he is vtterly cut off.

1611 marginal noteHeb. feast.

1611 marginal noteHeb. Belial.

1611 marginal noteIsa.52.7 rom.10.15.

Nahum 2:1
HE that dasheth in pieces is come up before thy face: keep the munition, watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy power mightily.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Nahum 2:1 · retained source text

¶ He that dasheth in pieces is come up before thy face: keep the munition, watch the way: make thy loines strong: fortifie thy power mightily.

1611 marginal noteOr, the disperser or hammer.

Habakkuk 2:20
But the Lord is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Habakkuk 2:20 · retained source text

But the LORD is in his holy temple: let all the earth keepe silence before him.

1611 marginal noteHeb. be silent all the earth before him.

1611 marginal notePsal.11.4.

Zechariah 3:7
Thus saith the Lord of hosts; If thou wilt walk in my ways, and if thou wilt keep my charge, then thou shalt also judge my house, and shalt also keep my courts, and I will give thee places to walk among these that stand by.
2 word occurrences in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Zechariah 3:7 · retained source text

Thus sayth the LORD of hosts, If thou wilt walke in my wayes, and if thou wilt keepe my charge, then thou shalt also iudge my House, and shalt also keepe my Courts, and I will giue thee places to walke among these that stand by.

1611 marginal noteOr, ordinance.

1611 marginal noteHeb. walks.

Zechariah 13:5
But he shall say, I am no prophet, I am an husbandman; for man taught me to keep cattle from my youth.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Zechariah 13:5 · retained source text

But he shal say, I am no prophet, I am an husbandman: for man taught me to keepe cattell from my youth.

Zechariah 14:16
¶ And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Zechariah 14:16 · retained source text

¶ And it shall come to passe that euery one that is left of all the nations which came against Ierusalem, shall euen goe vp from yeere to yeere to worship the King the LORD of hostes, and to keepe the feast of Tabernacles.

Zechariah 14:18
And if the family of Egypt go not up, and come not, that have no rain; there shall be the plague, wherewith the Lord will smite the heathen that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Zechariah 14:18 · retained source text

And if the family of Egypt goe not vp, and come not, that haue no raine: there shall bee the plague wherewith the LORD will smite the heathen that come not vp to keepe the feast of Tabernacles.

1611 marginal noteHeb. vpon whom there is not.

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