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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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Leviticus 18:5
Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the Lord.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Leviticus 18:5 · retained source text

Yee shall therefore keepe my statutes, and my iudgements: which if a man doe, hee shall liue in them: I am the LORD.

1611 marginal noteEzek. 20.11. rom. 10.5. galat. 3.12.

Leviticus 18:26
Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you:
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Leviticus 18:26 · retained source text

Ye shall therefore keepe my Statutes and my Iudgements, and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your owne nation, nor any stranger that soiourneth among you:

Leviticus 18:30
Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the Lord your God.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Leviticus 18:30 · retained source text

Therefore shal ye keepe mine Ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable customes, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not your selues therein: I am the LORD your God.

Leviticus 19:3
¶ Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Leviticus 19:3 · retained source text

¶ Yee shall feare euery man his mother, and his father, and keepe my Sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.

Leviticus 19:19
¶ Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee.
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1611 witness · Leviticus 19:19 · retained source text

¶ Yee shall keepe my Statutes: Thou shalt not let thy cattell gender with a diuerse kinde: Thou shalt not sowe thy field with mingled seed: Neither shall a garment mingled of linnen and woollen come vpon thee.

Leviticus 19:30
¶ Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Leviticus 19:30 · retained source text

¶ Ye shall keepe my Sabbaths, and reuerence my Sanctuary: I am the LORD.

Leviticus 20:8
And ye shall keep my statutes, and do them: I am the Lord which sanctify you.
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The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Leviticus 20:8 · retained source text

And ye shall keepe my Statutes, and do them: I am the LORD which sanctifie you.

Leviticus 20:22
¶ Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: that the land, whither I bring you to dwell therein, spue you not out.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Leviticus 20:22 · retained source text

¶ Ye shall therefore keepe all my Statutes, and all my Iudgements, and doe them: that the lande whither I bring you to dwell therein, spue you not out.

1611 marginal noteChap. 18.26.

1611 marginal noteChap. 18.25.

Leviticus 22:9
They shall therefore keep mine ordinance, lest they bear sin for it, and die therefore, if they profane it: I the Lord do sanctify them.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Leviticus 22:9 · retained source text

They shall therefore keepe mine Ordinance, lest they beare sinne for it, and die therefore, if they prophane it: I the LORD doe sanctifie them.

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