335 occurrences

'Keep' in the Bible

So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden the Cherubim, and the flame of a sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

Verse ConceptsBefore The FloodGuardsGuardiansSwordsEdenCherubim, Description ofSeeking LifeMetaphorical TreesFire From God's ServantsGod's SwordTree Of LifeAngelic GuardianshipGardensCherubimDirectionautonomyclosure

And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.

Verse ConceptsFlesh, Description OfNoah's ArkKept Alive By MenTwo AnimalsMale And Female Animals

Of the birds after their kind, and of the cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.

Verse ConceptsAccording To Its KindKept Alive By MenKinds Of Living Things

of the birds also of the heavens, seven and seven, male and female, to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.

Verse ConceptsSeven AnimalsAnimal OffspringKept Alive By MenMale And Female Animals

And God said unto Abraham, And as for thee, thou shalt keep my covenant, thou, and thy seed after thee throughout their generations.

Verse ConceptsAbraham, Testing And Victory

This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee: every male among you shall be circumcised.

Verse ConceptsGesturesCeremoniesCircumcisionGod's Covenant With The Patriarchs

And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on,

Verse ConceptsJourneyPresent, TheGod Will Be With YouGod With Specific PeopleGod KeepsProtecting Your FamilyGiving BackDivine Protection

And he said, What shall I give thee? And Jacob said, Thou shalt not give me aught: if thou wilt do this thing for me, I will again feed thy flock and keep it.

Verse ConceptsFeeding AnimalsWhat Is This?Not ReceivingThose Who Kept Stock

And let them gather all the food of these good years that come, and lay up grain under the hand of Pharaoh for food in the cities, and let them keep it.

Verse ConceptsStoringHuman Authority, Nature OfFrugalityGathering FoodStores Of FoodPeople Keeping

And moreover I have heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage; and I have remembered my covenant.

Verse ConceptsAnswered PromisesHard LaborGod Remembering His CovenantGod Paid Attention To ThemGod Keeps Covenant

and ye shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month; and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at even.

Verse ConceptsPassover lambThe Number FourteenTwilightKilling Sacrifices

And this day shall be unto you for a memorial, and ye shall keep it a feast to Jehovah: throughout your generations ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.

Verse ConceptsDoubt, Dealing WithCeremoniesCelebrationsAtonement, Types OfOrdinancesMemorialRegulations For PassoverThe Law Given To IsraelCelebrationremembrancecelebrating

And it shall come to pass, when ye are come to the land which Jehovah will give you, according as he hath promised, that ye shall keep this service.

Verse ConceptsInvasionsRegulations For Passover

All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.

Verse ConceptsAll People

And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to Jehovah, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land: but no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.

Verse ConceptsForeignersExclusivenessUncircumcisionForeigners Permitted At The FeastsCircumcisionStrangers in israelAliens

And it shall be, when Jehovah shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee, a land flowing with milk and honey, that thou shalt keep this service in this month.

Verse ConceptsFoodLand, As A Divine GiftLand, Spiritual Aspects OfMilk And HoneyRegulations For PassoverRich FoodFamine

Thou shalt therefore keep this ordinance in its season from year to year.

Verse ConceptsOrdinancesEvery Year

and he said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of Jehovah thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his eyes, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases upon thee, which I have put upon the Egyptians: for I am Jehovah that healeth thee.

Verse ConceptsGod, Activity OfTemporal BlessingsAbolitionBlessings, To IsraeldoctorsdiseasesCommands, in OTHealingGod As DoctorI Am The LordGod HealsHealth PromisedNames Involving GodPay Attention To God!Results Of Keeping The CommandmentsDiseaseGod Healing Our LandSicknessIllnessHealth And Healing

And Jehovah said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws?

Verse ConceptsBefore People ActThey Do Not Keep Commands

Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be mine own possession from among all peoples: for all the earth is mine:

Verse ConceptsFaithfulness, To GodPeople Of God, In OtReward, DivineSecurityTreasureCautionObedience To GodJews As God's Chosen PeopleResponsibility, Of Natural WorldAll Things Belong To GodRoyal Priesthood

And if men contend, and one smite the other with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keep his bed;

Verse ConceptsDisputesBatteryBedsBeating PeopleBeing Struck With StonesNot Dyingstriving

If a man shall deliver unto his neighbor money or stuff to keep, and it be stolen out of the man's house; if the thief be found, he shall pay double.

Verse ConceptsRestitutionDouble PenaltyPeople Keeping

If a man deliver unto his neighbor an ass, or an ox, or a sheep, or any beast, to keep; and it die, or be hurt, or driven away, no man seeing it:

Verse ConceptsDriving Out AnimalsDeath Of CreaturesUnseenWoundsPeople Keeping

Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.

Verse ConceptsInnocence, Teaching OnAcquittalDo Not MurderFar From OneJudicial PunishmentFake FriendsaccusationsAcquitting The Guilty

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

Verse ConceptsFeastingFeast Of Unleavened BreadCelebrationsMonthUnleavened BreadYeastMonth 1Seven DaysLeaving EgyptEmpty HandedRegulations For Passoverthe anniversary Feastsanniversary

In the tent of meeting, without the veil which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall keep it in order from evening to morning before Jehovah: it shall be a statue for ever throughout their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.

Verse ConceptsAaron, Priestly ResponsibilitiesMorningOrdinancesPriests, Function In Ot TimesTentsPutting In OrderActing All Night

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

Verse ConceptsKnowledge, Of GodSabbath ObservedMaking People Holy

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

Verse ConceptsBanishmentSabbath, In OtGoldsmithsHoly TimesSabbath ObservedThose To Be Cut Off From IsraelLack Of Holiness

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

Verse ConceptsGenerationsCommemorationThe Eternal CovenantKeeping The SabbathTerms Of The Covenant At Sinaicovenantcelebrating

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

Verse ConceptsCelebrationsUnleavened BreadWeeksYeastMonth 1Seven DaysRegulations For Passoverthe anniversary Feastsanniversary

And at the door of the tent of meeting shall ye abide day and night seven days, and keep the charge of Jehovah, that ye die not: for so I am commanded.

Verse ConceptsSeven DaysPresented At The DoorwayDeath As Punishment

Mine ordinances shall ye do, and my statutes shall ye keep, to walk therein: I am Jehovah your God.

Verse ConceptsThe Lord Is God

Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and mine ordinances; which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am Jehovah.

Verse ConceptsI Am The LordLife Through Keeping The LawWorks Of The LawBlessings Of Obedience

Ye therefore shall keep my statutes and mine ordinances, and shall not do any of these abominations; neither the home-born, nor the stranger that sojourneth among you;

Verse ConceptsForeignersAliens, Believers DutyStrangersForeigners Included In The LawKeep The Commandments!Aliensextraterrestrials

Therefore shall ye keep my charge, that ye practise not any of these abominable customs, which were practised before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am Jehovah your God.

Verse ConceptsCustomPurity, Moral And SpiritualThe Lord Is GodHating Uncleanness

Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with two kinds of seed: neither shall there come upon thee a garment of two kinds of stuff mingled together.

Verse ConceptsMulesFieldsAnimals, religious role ofSeedCultivationAnimal ReproductionNot MixingMixing MaterialsInstruction About ClothesKeep The Commandments!GarmentsAgricultureDrugs

Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all mine ordinances, and do them; that the land, whither I bring you to dwell therein, vomit you not out.

Verse ConceptsKeep The Commandments!Eviction

They shall therefore keep my charge, lest they bear sin for it, and die therein, if they profane it: I am Jehovah who sanctifieth them.

Verse ConceptsPriests, Function In Ot TimesRitual LawSin BearerStewardshipDeath Due To God's PresenceI Am The LordMaking People Holy

It shall be unto you a sabbath of solemn rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye keep your sabbath.

Verse ConceptsFasting, Nature OfCelebrationsAfflicting Your SoulMonth 7Sabbaths InstitutedHumbling OneselfRestcelebrating

Howbeit on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruits of the land, ye shall keep the feast of Jehovah seven days: on the first day shall be a solemn rest, and on the eighth day shall be a solemn rest.

Verse ConceptsCropsDay 8Month 7Sabbaths Instituted

And ye shall keep it a feast unto Jehovah seven days in the year: it is a statute for ever throughout your generations; ye shall keep it in the seventh month.

Verse ConceptsGenerationsOrdinancesMonth 7Celebrationcelebrating

Without the veil of the testimony, in the tent of meeting, shall Aaron keep it in order from evening to morning before Jehovah continually: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations.

Verse ConceptsOrdinancesTent Of MeetingPerpetual StatutesActing All Night

He shall keep in order the lamps upon the pure candlestick before Jehovah continually.

Verse ConceptsGoldPutting In OrderUnceasingAlways Being Active

Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath unto Jehovah.

Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep mine ordinances and do them; and ye shall dwell in the land in safety.

Verse ConceptsKeep The Commandments!Obedience

If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;

Verse ConceptsKeep The Commandments!statuescommandmentsobeying

But the Levites shall encamp round about the tabernacle of the testimony, that there be no wrath upon the congregation of the children of Israel: and the Levites shall keep the charge of the tabernacle of the testimony.

Verse ConceptsCamping During The ExodusAction Lest God Be Angry

And they shall keep his charge, and the charge of the whole congregation before the tent of meeting, to do the service of the tabernacle.

Verse ConceptsThe Tabernacle

And they shall keep all the furniture of the tent of meeting, and the charge of the children of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle.

And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be prince of the princes of the Levites, and have the oversight of them that keep the charge of the sanctuary.

but shall minister with their brethren in the tent of meeting, to keep the charge, and shall do no service. Thus shalt thou do unto the Levites touching their charges.

Verse ConceptsGroups Helping

Moreover let the children of Israel keep the passover in its appointed season.

Verse ConceptsCelebrationsNew Year, TheRegulations For Passoverthe anniversary Feastsanniversary

In the fourteenth day of this month, at even, ye shall keep it in its appointed season: according to all the statutes of it, and according to all the ordinances thereof, shall ye keep it.

Verse ConceptsTwilight

And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, that they should keep the passover.

And there were certain men, who were unclean by reason of the dead body of a man, so that they could not keep the passover on that day: and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day:

Verse ConceptsRules About Corpses

Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any man of you or of your generations shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or be on a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the passover unto Jehovah.

Verse ConceptsJourneyRules About Corpses

In the second month on the fourteenth day at even they shall keep it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs:

Verse ConceptsMonthBitter HerbsTwilightMonth 2Bitter Food

they shall leave none of it unto the morning, nor break a bone thereof: according to all the statute of the passover they shall keep it.

Verse ConceptsPassover lambLord's SupperOrdinancesRemaining OfferingsNo Bones Broken

But the man that is clean, and is not on a journey, and forbeareth to keep the passover, that soul shall be cut off from his people; because he offered not the oblation of Jehovah in its appointed season, that man shall bear his sin.

Verse ConceptsExclusivenessThose To Be Cut Off From Israelconsequences

And if a stranger shall sojourn among you, and will keep the passover unto Jehovah; according to the statute of the passover, and according to the ordinance thereof, so shall he do: ye shall have one statute, both for the sojourner, and for him that is born in the land.

Verse ConceptsGentiles, In OtOrdinancesPassoverAliens, Believers DutyStrangersForeigners Permitted At The FeastsForeigners Included In The Law

And they shall keep thy charge, and the charge of all the Tent: only they shall not come nigh unto the vessels of the sanctuary and unto the altar, that they die not, neither they, nor ye.

Verse ConceptsExclusionDeath Due To God's PresenceDanger When God Is Near

And they shall be joined unto thee, and keep the charge of the tent of meeting, for all the service of the Tent: and a stranger shall not come nigh unto you.

And ye shall keep the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the altar; that there be wrath no more upon the children of Israel.

Verse ConceptsSanctuaryAction Lest God Be AngryResponsibility

And thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your priesthood for everything of the altar, and for that within the veil; and ye shall serve: I give you the priesthood as a service of gift: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.

Verse ConceptsAaron, Priestly ResponsibilitiesAccess To God, In Old TestamentMediatorPriesthood, In OtServanthood, And Worship Of GodExclusionDeath Due To God's PresenceDanger When God Is Near

And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month ye shall have a holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work, and ye shall keep a feast unto Jehovah seven days:

Verse ConceptsFeast Of TabernaclesCelebrationsHolidayHoliness, As Set Apart For GodMonthAutumnWork, And RestThe Number FifteenMonth 7Seven DaysNo Work On Feast Dayscelebrating

But all the women-children, that have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.

Verse Conceptssexteenagergenocide

And of the children of Israel's half, thou shalt take one drawn out of every fifty, of the persons, of the oxen, of the asses, and of the flocks, even of all the cattle, and give them unto the Levites, that keep the charge of the tabernacle of Jehovah.

Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish from it, that ye may keep the commandments of Jehovah your God which I command you.

Verse ConceptsAdding to the BibleCommands, in OTRespect, For God's CharacterRevelation, In NtWord Of GodAdditionsAdding To GodSubtracting From God

Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, that shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.

Verse ConceptsNationalismUnderstandingWisdom, Human NatureDealing With The NationsGod's Word Gives WisdomKeep The Commandments!Discernmentwise

And thou shalt keep his statutes, and his commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days in the land, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, for ever.

Verse ConceptsTemporal Blessingsethics, and graceBlessings, To AbrahamOld Age, Attainment OfHow To Live LongEternal PossessionResults Of Keeping The CommandmentsKeep The Commandments!

and showing lovingkindness unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.

Verse ConceptsReliabilityResults Of Keeping The CommandmentsLove And Family

Observe the sabbath day, to keep it holy, as Jehovah thy God commanded thee.

Verse Conceptsethics, personalHoly TimesSabbath Observed

And thou shalt remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and Jehovah thy God brought thee out thence by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm: therefore Jehovah thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day.

Verse ConceptsGod, Human Descriptions OfGod, As RedeemerHand Of GodHolidayRememberingCaptivity, Of IsraelAbusive ParentsArm Of GodGod's HandGroups Of SlavesKeeping The SabbathGod Bringing Israel Out Of Egypt

Oh that there were such a heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!

Verse ConceptsFear Of The LordPenitentReceptive HeartsFear God!Keep The Commandments!

that thou mightest fear Jehovah thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged.

Verse ConceptsFutureFear Of The LordHow To Live Longstatues

Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of Jehovah your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee.

Verse Conceptsethics, and graceDiligence, Objects OfdiligenceTestimoniesKeep The Commandments!statuescommandments

but because Jehovah loveth you, and because he would keep the oath which he sware unto your fathers, hath Jehovah brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

Verse ConceptsGod, As RedeemerGod, Power OfHand Of GodOaths, DivineRedemption, In OtGod's HandGod Swearing BlessingsGod Bringing Israel Out Of EgyptGod's Love For Israel

Thou shalt therefore keep the commandment, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which I command thee this day, to do them.

Verse ConceptsPresent, TheKeep The Commandments!

And it shall come to pass, because ye hearken to these ordinances, and keep and do them, that Jehovah thy God will keep with thee the covenant and the lovingkindness which he sware unto thy fathers:

Verse ConceptsMultiplyingGod's Covenant With The PatriarchsGod Keeps Covenanthealthcare

And thou shalt keep the commandments of Jehovah thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.

Verse ConceptsWalkingFear God!Keep The Commandments!

to keep the commandments of Jehovah, and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good?

Verse ConceptsPresent, TheKeep The Commandments!Obeying God

Therefore thou shalt love Jehovah thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his ordinances, and his commandments, alway.

Verse ConceptsAdoration, Of GodCommitment, to GodOrthodoxy, In OtLove Towards God, Nature OfLove For GodThe Need To Love GodKeep The Commandments!improvement

Therefore shall ye keep all the commandment which I command thee this day, that ye may be strong, and go in and possess the land, whither ye go over to possess it;

Verse ConceptsKeep The Commandments!

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Root Form
Definition
Usage
σιγάω 
Sigao 
Usage: 9

חגג 
Chagag 
Usage: 16

מנע 
mana` 
Usage: 29

עדר 
`adar 
Usage: 11

φρουρέω 
Phroureo 
keep , keep with a garrison
Usage: 4

φυλάσσω 
Phulasso 
keep , observe , beware , keep self , save , be ... ware
Usage: 25

גּרע 
Gara` 
Usage: 22

דּבק 
Dabaq 
Usage: 54

הסה 
Hacah 
Usage: 8

חרשׁ 
Charash 
Usage: 74

חשׂך 
Chasak 
Usage: 28

כּבשׁ 
Kabash 
Usage: 14

כּלא 
Kala' 
Usage: 18

משׁמרת 
Mishmereth 
Usage: 78

נוה 
Navah 
Usage: 2

נטר 
Natar 
Usage: 9

נצר 
Natsar 
Usage: 63

עצר 
`atsar 
Usage: 46

רעה 
Ra`ah 
Usage: 171

שׁבח 
Shabach 
praise , still , keep it in , glory , triumph , commend
Usage: 11

שׁמר 
Shamar 
Usage: 468

שׂר 
Sar 
Usage: 421

ἀποστερέω 
Apostereo 
Usage: 5

ἄπταιστος 
Aptaistos 
Usage: 1

βόσκω 
Bosko 
Usage: 6

δεσμοφύλαξ 
Desmophulax 
keeper of the prison , jailor
Usage: 3

διατηρέω 
Diatereo 
Usage: 2

διαφυλάσσω 
Diaphulasso 
Usage: 1

ἑορτάζω 
heortazo 
keep the feast
Usage: 1

θησαυρίζω 
thesaurizo 
Usage: 5

θυρωρός 
Thuroros 
Usage: 2

κατάκειμαι 
Katakeimai 
lie , sit at meat , keep , sat down
Usage: 11

κατέχω 
Katecho 
hold , hold fast , keep , possess , stay , take , have , make ,
Usage: 16

κολλάω 
Kollao 
Usage: 8

κρύπτω 
Krupto 
Usage: 10

κωλύω 
Koluo 
Usage: 15

νοσφίζομαι 
Nosphizomai 
Usage: 3

οἰκουρός 
Oikouros 
Usage: 1

παρατίθημι 
Paratithemi 
Usage: 15

παρέχω 
Parecho 
Usage: 11

ποιέω 
Poieo 
do , make , bring forth , commit , cause , work , show , bear , keep , fulfil , deal , perform , not tr , , vr do
Usage: 372

πράσσω 
Prasso 
do , commit , exact , require , deed , keep , use arts
Usage: 35

συναναμίγνυμι 
sunanamignumi 
company with , keep company , have company with
Usage: 3

συνέχω 
sunecho 
be taken with , throng , straiten , keep in , hold , stop , press , lie sick of , constrain , be in a strait
Usage: 10

συντηρέω 
suntereo 
Usage: 2

τηρέω 
Tereo 
Usage: 49

τήρησις 
Teresis 
Usage: 3

ὑποστέλλω 
Hupostello 
Usage: 4

ὑπωπιάζω 
Hupopiazo 
Usage: 1

φύλαξ 
Phulax 
Usage: 3

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