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
351–400 of 440
- Proverbs 7:1My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
- Proverbs 7:2Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.
- Proverbs 7:5That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.
- Proverbs 8:32Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways.
- Proverbs 8:34Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.
- Proverbs 10:17He is in the way of life that keepeth instruction: but he that refuseth reproof erreth.
- Proverbs 13:3He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.
- Proverbs 13:18Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuseth instruction: but he that regardeth reproof shall be honoured.
- Proverbs 14:3In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride: but the lips of the wise shall preserve them.
- Proverbs 15:5A fool despiseth his father’s instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.
- Proverbs 16:17The highway of the upright is to depart from evil: he that keepeth his way preserveth his soul.
- Proverbs 19:8He that getteth wisdom loveth his own soul: he that keepeth understanding shall find good.
- Proverbs 19:16He that keepeth the commandment keepeth his own soul; but he that despiseth his ways shall die.
- Proverbs 21:23Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles.
- Proverbs 22:5Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward: he that doth keep his soul shall be far from them.
- Proverbs 22:18For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips.
- Proverbs 27:18Whoso keepeth the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof: so he that waiteth on his master shall be honoured.
- Proverbs 28:4They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but such as keep the law contend with them.
- Proverbs 29:18Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.
- Ecclesiastes 3:6A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
- Ecclesiastes 5:1Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.
- Ecclesiastes 5:8If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.
- Ecclesiastes 5:13There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.
- Ecclesiastes 8:2I counsel thee to keep the king’s commandment, and that in regard of the oath of God.
- Ecclesiastes 8:5Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man’s heart discerneth both time and judgment.
- Ecclesiastes 11:4He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap.
- Ecclesiastes 12:3In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened,
- Ecclesiastes 12:13Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
- Song of Songs 3:3The watchmen that go about the city found me: to whom I said, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth?
- Song of Songs 5:7The watchmen that went about the city found me, they smote me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.
- Isaiah 7:4And say unto him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither be fainthearted for the two tails of these smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin with Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.
- Isaiah 21:11The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?
- Isaiah 21:12The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will inquire, inquire ye: return, come.
- Isaiah 26:2Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in.
- Isaiah 42:20Seeing many things, but thou observest not; opening the ears, but he heareth not.
- Isaiah 56:1Thus saith the LORD, Keep ye judgment, and do justice: for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed.
- Isaiah 56:2Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of man that layeth hold on it; that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil.
- Isaiah 56:4For thus saith the LORD unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant;
- Isaiah 56:6Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD, to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant;
- Isaiah 62:6I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence,
- Jeremiah 3:5Will he reserve his anger for ever? will he keep it to the end? Behold, thou hast spoken and done evil things as thou couldest.
- Jeremiah 4:17As keepers of a field, are they against her round about; because she hath been rebellious against me, saith the LORD.
- Jeremiah 5:24Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.
- Jeremiah 8:7Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
- Jeremiah 9:4Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders.
- Jeremiah 16:11Then shalt thou say unto them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, saith the LORD, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshipped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my law;
- Jeremiah 17:21Thus saith the LORD; Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden on the sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem;
- Jeremiah 20:10For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, say they, and we will report it. All my familiars watched for my halting, saying, Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.
- Jeremiah 31:10Hear the word of the LORD, O ye nations, and declare it in the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd doth his flock.
- Jeremiah 35:4And I brought them into the house of the LORD, into the chamber of the sons of Hanan, the son of Igdaliah, a man of God, which was by the chamber of the princes, which was above the chamber of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper of the door:
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.