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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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First occurrence: Genesis 2:15

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Exodus 23:15

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Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall appear before me empty:)

1 word occurrence in this verse

The 1611 reading & marginal notes

1611 witness · Exodus 23:15 · retained source text

Thou shalt keepe the feast of vnleauened bread: thou shalt eate vnleauened bread seuen daies, as I commanded thee in the time appointed of the moneth Abib: for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall appeare before me emptie:

1611 marginal noteChap. 13.3 & 34.18.

1611 marginal noteDeut. 16.16. ecclus. 35.4.

Exodus 23:20

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¶ Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.

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1611 witness · Exodus 23:20 · retained source text

¶ Behold, I send an Angel before thee to keepe thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I haue prepared.

1611 marginal noteChap. 33.2.

Exodus 31:13

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Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the Lord that doth sanctify you.

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1611 witness · Exodus 31:13 · retained source text

Speake thou also vnto the children of Israel, saying, Uerely my Sabbaths ye shall keepe: for it is a signe betweene me and you, throughout your generations, that ye may know that I am the LORD, that doth sanctifie you.

Exodus 31:14

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Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death: for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.

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1611 witness · Exodus 31:14 · retained source text

Yee shall keepe the Sabbath therefore: for it is holy vnto you: Euery one that defileth it, shall surely be put to death: for whosoeuer doth any worke therein, that soule shall be cut off from amongst his people.

1611 marginal noteChap. 20.8. deut. 5.12. ezek. 20.12.

Exodus 31:16

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Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.

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1611 witness · Exodus 31:16 · retained source text

Wherefore the children of Israel shall keepe the Sabbath, to obserue the Sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetuall couenant.

Exodus 34:18

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¶ The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the time of the month Abib: for in the month Abib thou camest out from Egypt.

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1611 witness · Exodus 34:18 · retained source text

¶ The feast of vnleauened bread shalt thou keepe: Seuen dayes thou shalt eate vnleauened bread, as I commanded thee in the time of the moneth Abib: for in the moneth Abib thou camest out from Egypt.

1611 marginal noteChap. 23.15.

1611 marginal noteChap. 13.4.

Leviticus 6:2

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If a soul sin, and commit a trespass against the Lord, and lie unto his neighbour in that which was delivered him to keep, or in fellowship, or in a thing taken away by violence, or hath deceived his neighbour;

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1611 witness · Leviticus 6:2 · retained source text

If a soule sinne, and commit a trespasse against the LORD, and lie vnto his neighbour in that which was deliuered him to keepe, or in fellowship, or in a thing taken away by violence, or hath deceiued his neighbour:

1611 marginal noteOr, in dealing.

1611 marginal noteHeb. putting of the hand.

Leviticus 6:4

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Then it shall be, because he hath sinned, and is guilty, that he shall restore that which he took violently away, or the thing which he hath deceitfully gotten, or that which was delivered him to keep, or the lost thing which he found,

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1611 witness · Leviticus 6:4 · retained source text

Then it shall be, because he hath sinned, and is guiltie, that hee shall restore that which he tooke violently away, or the thing which he hath deceitfully gotten, or that which was deliuered him to keepe, or the lost thing which he found:

Leviticus 8:35

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Therefore shall ye abide at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation day and night seven days, and keep the charge of the Lord, that ye die not: for so I am commanded.

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1611 witness · Leviticus 8:35 · retained source text

Therefore shall ye abide at the doore of the Tabernacle of the Congregation day and night, seuen dayes, and keepe the charge of the LORD, that ye die not: for so I am commanded.

Leviticus 18:4

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Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: I am the Lord your God.

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1611 witness · Leviticus 18:4 · retained source text

Ye shall doe my iudgements, and keepe mine ordinances, to walke therein: I am the LORD your God.

Complete reference index — all 354 verses

Genesis 2:15 Genesis 3:24 Genesis 6:19 Genesis 6:20 Genesis 7:3 Genesis 17:9 Genesis 17:10 Genesis 18:19 Genesis 28:15 Genesis 28:20 Genesis 30:31 Genesis 33:9 Genesis 41:35 Exodus 6:5 Exodus 12:6 Exodus 12:14 Exodus 12:25 Exodus 12:47 Exodus 12:48 Exodus 13:5 Exodus 13:10 Exodus 15:26 Exodus 16:28 Exodus 19:5 Exodus 20:6 Exodus 20:8 Exodus 22:7 Exodus 22:10 Exodus 23:7 Exodus 23:14 Exodus 23:15 Exodus 23:20 Exodus 31:13 Exodus 31:14 Exodus 31:16 Exodus 34:18 Leviticus 6:2 Leviticus 6:4 Leviticus 8:35 Leviticus 18:4 Leviticus 18:5 Leviticus 18:26 Leviticus 18:30 Leviticus 19:3 Leviticus 19:19 Leviticus 19:30 Leviticus 20:8 Leviticus 20:22 Leviticus 22:9 Leviticus 22:31 Leviticus 23:39 Leviticus 23:41 Leviticus 25:2 Leviticus 25:18 Leviticus 26:2 Leviticus 26:3 Numbers 1:53 Numbers 3:7 Numbers 3:8 Numbers 3:32 Numbers 6:24 Numbers 8:26 Numbers 9:2 Numbers 9:3 Numbers 9:4 Numbers 9:6 Numbers 9:10 Numbers 9:11 Numbers 9:12 Numbers 9:13 Numbers 9:14 Numbers 18:3 Numbers 18:4 Numbers 18:5 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44:16 Ezekiel 44:24 Daniel 9:4 Hosea 12:6 Amos 5:13 Micah 7:5 Nahum 1:15 Nahum 2:1 Habakkuk 2:20 Zechariah 3:7 Zechariah 13:5 Zechariah 14:16 Zechariah 14:18 Zechariah 14:19 Malachi 2:7 Matthew 19:17 Matthew 26:18 Mark 7:9 Luke 4:10 Luke 8:15 Luke 11:28 Luke 19:43 John 8:51 John 8:52 John 8:55 John 12:25 John 14:15 John 14:23 John 15:10 John 15:20 John 17:11 John 17:15 Acts 5:3 Acts 10:28 Acts 12:4 Acts 15:5 Acts 15:24 Acts 15:29 Acts 16:4 Acts 16:23 Acts 18:21 Acts 21:25 Acts 24:23 Romans 2:25 Romans 2:26 1 Corinthians 5:8 1 Corinthians 5:11 1 Corinthians 7:37 1 Corinthians 9:27 1 Corinthians 11:2 1 Corinthians 14:28 1 Corinthians 14:34 1 Corinthians 15:2 2 Corinthians 11:9 Galatians 6:13 Ephesians 4:3 Philippians 4:7 2 Thessalonians 3:3 1 Timothy 5:22 1 Timothy 6:14 1 Timothy 6:20 2 Timothy 1:12 2 Timothy 1:14 James 1:27 James 2:10 1 John 2:3 1 John 3:22 1 John 5:2 1 John 5:3 1 John 5:21 Jude 1:21 Jude 1:24 Revelation 1:3 Revelation 3:10 Revelation 12:17 Revelation 14:12 Revelation 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