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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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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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1611 witness · Ezekiel 17:14 · retained source text

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.

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