'Kept' in the Bible

not like Moses, who kept covering his face with a veil to keep the people of Israel from gazing at the end of what was fading away.

Unnoted, but still kept fully in mind; as near to death, but still living; as undergoing punishment, but not put to death;

But I am sending these brothers so that our boasting about you may not be empty in this case, so that you may be ready just as I kept telling them.

And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lacking to me the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied: and in all things I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and so will I keep myself.

In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me: