Strong’s H8104 · Hebrew
שָׁמַר
shâmar · shaw-mar'
Origin a primitive root;
Meaning properly, to hedge about (as with thorns), i.e. guard; generally, to protect, attend to, etc.
In the King James Version beward, be circumspect, take heed (to self), keep(-er, self), mark, look narrowly, observe, preserve, regard, reserve, save (self), sure, (that lay) wait (for), watch(-man).
In 440 verses of the King James Version
251–300 of 440
- Nehemiah 10:29They clave to their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God’s law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, and his judgments and his statutes;
- Nehemiah 11:19Moreover the porters, Akkub, Talmon, and their brethren that kept the gates, were an hundred seventy and two.
- Nehemiah 12:25Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were porters keeping the ward at the thresholds of the gates.
- Nehemiah 12:45And both the singers and the porters kept the ward of their God, and the ward of the purification, according to the commandment of David, and of Solomon his son.
- Nehemiah 13:22And I commanded the Levites that they should cleanse themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the sabbath day. Remember me, O my God, concerning this also, and spare me according to the greatness of thy mercy.
- Esther 2:3And let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, that they may gather together all the fair young virgins unto Shushan the palace, to the house of the women, unto the custody of Hege the king’s chamberlain, keeper of the women; and let their things for purification be given them:
- Esther 2:8So it came to pass, when the king’s commandment and his decree was heard, and when many maidens were gathered together unto Shushan the palace, to the custody of Hegai, that Esther was brought also unto the king’s house, to the custody of Hegai, keeper of the women.
- Esther 2:14In the evening she went, and on the morrow she returned into the second house of the women, to the custody of Shaashgaz, the king’s chamberlain, which kept the concubines: she came in unto the king no more, except the king delighted in her, and that she were called by name.
- Esther 2:15Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, was come to go in unto the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king’s chamberlain, the keeper of the women, appointed. And Esther obtained favour in the sight of all them that looked upon her.
- Esther 2:21In those days, while Mordecai sat in the king’s gate, two of the king’s chamberlains, Bigthan and Teresh, of those which kept the door, were wroth, and sought to lay hand on the king Ahasuerus.
- Esther 6:2And it was found written, that Mordecai had told of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king’s chamberlains, the keepers of the door, who sought to lay hand on the king Ahasuerus.
- Job 2:6And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, he is in thine hand; but save his life.
- Job 10:12Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit.
- Job 10:14If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.
- Job 13:27Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.
- Job 14:16For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?
- Job 22:15Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?
- Job 23:11My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.
- Job 24:15The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.
- Job 29:2Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;
- Job 33:11He putteth my feet in the stocks, he marketh all my paths.
- Job 36:21Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.
- Job 39:1Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve?
- Psalms 12:7Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.
- Psalms 16:1Michtam of David. Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust.
- Psalms 17:4Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer.
- Psalms 17:8Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings,
- Psalms 18:21For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
- Psalms 18:23I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity.
- Psalms 19:11Moreover by them is thy servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward.
- Psalms 25:20O keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed; for I put my trust in thee.
- Psalms 31:6I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the LORD.
- Psalms 34:20He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken.
- Psalms 37:28For the LORD loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.
- Psalms 37:34Wait on the LORD, and keep his way, and he shall exalt thee to inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see it.
- Psalms 37:37Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace.
- Psalms 39:1To the chief Musician, even to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David. I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.
- Psalms 41:2The LORD will preserve him, and keep him alive; and he shall be blessed upon the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies.
- Psalms 56:6They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.
- Psalms 59:1To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David; when Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him. Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God: defend me from them that rise up against me.
- Psalms 59:9Because of his strength will I wait upon thee: for God is my defence.
- Psalms 71:10For mine enemies speak against me; and they that lay wait for my soul take counsel together,
- Psalms 78:10They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;
- Psalms 78:56Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:
- Psalms 86:2Preserve my soul; for I am holy: O thou my God, save thy servant that trusteth in thee.
- Psalms 89:28My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him.
- Psalms 89:31If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments;
- Psalms 91:11For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.
- Psalms 97:10Ye that love the LORD, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.
- Psalms 99:7He spake unto them in the cloudy pillar: they kept his testimonies, and the ordinance that he gave them.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.