39 occurrences

'Keep' in the Bible

And Adah gave birth to Jabal: he was the father of such as are living in tents and keep cattle.

Verse ConceptsNomadsTentsSpiritual FathersThose Who Kept Stock

And you will take with you into the ark two of every sort of living thing, and keep them safe with you; they will be male and female.

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

Two of every sort of bird and cattle and of every sort of living thing which goes on the earth will you take with you to keep them from destruction.

Verse ConceptsAccording To Its KindKept Alive By MenKinds Of Living Things

And I will keep in mind the agreement between me and you and every living thing; and never again will there be a great flow of waters causing destruction to all flesh.

Verse ConceptsNeverGod Remembering His CovenantNoah's FloodThe RainbowRainbow

And the bow will be in the cloud, and looking on it, I will keep in mind the eternal agreement between God and every living thing on the earth.

Verse ConceptsCovenant breakersCovenant, God's with NoahImmortality, In OtThe Eternal CovenantGod Seeing All The EarthGod Remembering His CovenantPromises concerningThe RainbowRainbow

And the Lord said, See, they are all one people and have all one language; and this is only the start of what they may do: and now it will not be possible to keep them from any purpose of theirs.

Verse ConceptsImagination, Evil SchemingDivine RestraintsUnified PeoplePossibilities For PeopleActivity BegunPossible For PeopleVisualizationLanguageWorking TogetherSuccess And Hard WorkTogethernesstechnologyaccomplishmentimaginationimpossible

And I am certain that when the men of Egypt see you, they will say, This is his wife: and they will put me to death and keep you.

Verse ConceptsKept Alive By MenTransferring Wives

And he will be like a mountain ass among men; his hand will be against every man and every man's hand against him, and he will keep his place against all his brothers.

Verse ConceptsIndependenceOpposite SidesWild DonkeysConflictFamily Conflictislam

And God said to Abraham, On your side, you are to keep the agreement, you and your seed after you through all generations.

Verse ConceptsAbraham, Testing And Victory

And this is the agreement which you are to keep with me, you and your seed after you: every male among you is to undergo circumcision.

Verse ConceptsGesturesCeremoniesCircumcisionGod's Covenant With The Patriarchs

And let me get a bit of bread to keep up your strength, and after that you may go on your way: for this is why you have come to your servant. And they said, Let it be so.

Verse ConceptsBread, As FoodServanthood, In Life Of BelieversPeople Refreshed

And the Lord said, Am I to keep back from Abraham the knowledge of what I do;

Verse ConceptsGod, Purpose OfPredictionsGod's Things Concealed

Then he said to his young men, Keep here with the ass; and I and the boy will go on and give worship and come back again to you.

Verse ConceptsBowing Before God

My lord, truly you are a great chief among us; take the best of our resting-places for your dead; not one of us will keep back from you a place where you may put your dead to rest.

Verse ConceptsPrincesAbraham, In SocietySepulchresConsentThe Cave Of MachpelahBurying places

And he said, Do not keep me; the Lord has given a good outcome to my journey; let me now go back to my master.

Verse ConceptsDo Not HinderPeople Sending PeopleSuccess Through God

And the Lord came to him in a vision and said, Do not go down to Egypt; keep in the land of which I will give you knowledge:

Verse ConceptsGod AppearingGod Forbiddingland

Keep in this land, and I will be with you and give you my blessing; for to you and to your seed will I give all these lands, giving effect to the oath which I made to your father Abraham;

Verse ConceptsBlessings, To AbrahamOaths, DivineSojourningGod Swearing BlessingsGod Will Be With YouGod Will Blessland

Then Jacob took an oath, and said, If God will be with me, and keep me safe on my journey, and give me food and clothing to put on,

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

And Mizpah, for he said, May the Lord keep watch on us when we are unable to see one another's doings.

Verse ConceptsGod Keeping WatchPeople Parting

But Esau said, I have enough; keep what is yours, my brother, for yourself.

Verse ConceptsNot Receiving

And Esau said, Then keep some of my men with you. And he said, What need is there for that, if my lord is pleased with me?

Verse ConceptsGoing Together

Now his brothers went to keep watch over their father's flock in Shechem.

Verse ConceptsThose Who Kept Stock

Do not put him to a violent death, but let him be placed in one of the holes; this he said to keep him safe from their hands, with the purpose of taking him back to his father again.

Verse ConceptsSheddingReinstating PeopleIndividuals Saving Others

Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, Go back to your father's house and keep yourself as a widow till my son Shelah becomes a man: for he had in his mind the thought that death might come to him as it had come to his brothers. So Tamar went back to her father's house.

Verse ConceptsSinglenessGrowing UpDaughters In LawPossibility Of DeathActual WidowsWaiting Till Marriage

And Judah said, Let her keep the things, so that we may not be shamed; I sent the young goat, but you did not see the woman.

Verse ConceptsNowhere To Be Found

And when she saw that he had got away, letting her keep his coat,

Verse ConceptsGoing OutsideAbandoning ThingsOutside The House

But keep me in mind when things go well for you, and be good to me and say a good word for me to Pharaoh and get me out of this prison:

Verse ConceptsRemembering PeoplePeople Releasing Othersjail

And let them get together all the food in those good years and make a store of grain under Pharaoh's control for the use of the towns, and let them keep it.

Verse ConceptsStoringHuman Authority, Nature OfFrugalityGathering FoodStores Of FoodPeople Keeping

And on the third day Joseph said to them, Do this, if you would keep your lives: for I am a god-fearing man:

Verse ConceptsGodly Fear, Examples OfFear Of God, Examples OfThe Third Day Of The WeekKept Alive By MenIndividuals Fearing God

Then Joseph, unable to keep back his feelings before those who were with him, gave orders for everyone to be sent away, and no one was present when he made clear to his brothers who he was.

Verse ConceptsActing AloneGroups Sent AwayPeople Made KnownIdentity

God sent me before you to keep you and yours living on earth so that you might become a great nation.

Verse ConceptsRemnantRescueEscaping EvilSurvivors Of IsraelIndividuals Saving OthersIdentityTaking Care Of The Earthdeliverance

And when that year was ended, they came to him in the second year, and said, We may not keep it from our lord's knowledge that all our money is gone, and all the herds of cattle are my lord's; there is nothing more to give my lord but our bodies and our land;

Verse ConceptsBodyHerdsLimitations Of The BodyIndeterminate Sums Of MoneyShortage Other Than FoodThings Revealed

Take no part in their secrets, O my soul; keep far away, O my heart, from their meetings; for in their wrath they put men to death, and for their pleasure even oxen were wounded.

Verse ConceptsIrritationParticipation, In SinAnger Of Man, CauseSelf WillEvil AssociationsObstinate IndividualsReady To KillSports

Then Joseph said to his brothers, The time of my death has come; but God will keep you in mind and take you out of this land into the land which he gave by his oath to Abraham and Isaac and Jacob.

Verse ConceptsAssurance, basis ofProperty, LandThe Promised LandGod VisitingNearness Of DeathDeath Will Soon HappenDeath Approaching

Bible Theasaurus

Arrest (38 instances)
Continue (334 instances)
Deposit (24 instances)
Dungeon (22 instances)
Livelihood (6 instances)
Maintain (89 instances)
Observe (357 instances)
Preserve (85 instances)
Prevent (56 instances)

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