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keeping

Meaning of “keeping”

Present-participial or verbal-noun form of keep, meaning 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: Exodus 34:7

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Exodus 34:7
keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.
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1611 witness · Exodus 34:7 · retained source text

Keeping mercie for thousands, forgiuing iniquitie and transgression and sinne, and that will by no meanes cleere the guiltie, visiting the iniquitie of the fathers vpon the children, and vpon the childrens children, vnto the third and to the fourth generation.

1611 marginal noteExod. 20.5. deut. 5.9. ierem. 32.18.

Numbers 3:28
In the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, were eight thousand and six hundred, keeping the charge of the sanctuary.
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In the number of all the males, from a moneth olde and vpward, were eight thousand, and sixe hundred, keeping the charge of the Sanctuary.

Numbers 3:38
¶ But those that encamp before the tabernacle toward the east, even before the tabernacle of the congregation eastward, shall be Moses, and Aaron and his sons, keeping the charge of the sanctuary for the charge of the children of Israel; and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.
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1611 witness · Numbers 3:38 · retained source text

¶ But those that encampe before the Tabernacle toward the East, euen before the Tabernacle of the Congregation Eastward, shall be Moses and Aaron, and his sonnes, keeping the charge of the Sanctuary, for the charge of the children of Israel: and the stranger that commeth nigh, shall be put to death.

Deuteronomy 8:11
Beware that thou forget not the Lord thy God, in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command thee this day:
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1611 witness · Deuteronomy 8:11 · retained source text

Beware that thou forget not the LORD thy God, in not keeping his Commandements, and his Iudgements, and his Statutes which I command thee this day:

1 Samuel 25:16
They were a wall unto us both by night and day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.
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1611 witness · 1 Samuel 25:16 · retained source text

They were a wall vnto vs both by night and day, all the while we were with them keeping sheepe.

Nehemiah 12:25
Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were porters keeping the ward at the thresholds of the gates.
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1611 witness · Nehemiah 12:25 · retained source text

Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were porters keeping the ward, at the thresholds of the gates.

1611 marginal noteOr, treasuries, or assemblies.

Psalms 19:11
Moreover by them is thy servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward.
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Moreouer by them is thy seruant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward.

Ezekiel 17:14
That the kingdom might be base, that it might not lift itself up, but that by keeping of his covenant it might stand.
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That the kingdome might bee base, that it might not lift it selfe vp, but that by keeping of his Couenant it might stand.

1611 marginal noteHebr. to keepe his couenant to stand to it.

Daniel 9:4
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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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.

Luke 2:8
And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.
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1611 witness · Luke 2:8 · retained source text

And there were in the same countrey shepheards abiding in y e field, keeping watch ouer their flocke by night.

1611 marginal noteOr, the night watches.

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