KJV dictionary & concordance
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
Complete exact-word concordance
And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.
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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