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τηρέω

Definition and meaning

tereo (tay-reh'-o) v. 1. to guard (from loss or injury) 2. (properly) by keeping the eye upon, i.e. to note (a prophecy) 3. (... figuratively) to fulfil a command 4. (by implication) to detain in custody 5. (... figuratively) to maintain 6. (by extension) to withhold for personal ends 7. (... figuratively) to keep unmarried {differs from G5442, which is properly to prevent escaping; and from G2892, which implies a fortress or full military lines of apparatus} [from teros "a watch" (perhaps akin to G2334)] KJV: hold fast, keep(- er), (pre-, re-)serve, watch Compare: G5442, G2892 See also: G2334

Tagged KJV passages

68 matching verses - 75.0 tagged occurrences

Highlighted words carry the exact Strong's tag in the installed KJV text. A verse may contain more than one occurrence. These are tagged English renderings, not independently verified original-language token counts.

Acts 12:6

And when Herod would have brought him forth, the same night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and the keepers before the door kept the prison.

Matched English: kept
Acts 15:5

But there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees which believed, saying, That it was needful to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses.

Matched English: keep
Acts 15:24

Forasmuch as we have heard, that certain which went out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying, Ye must be circumcised, and keep the law: to whom we gave no such commandment:

Matched English: keep
Acts 16:23

And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely:

Matched English: keep
Acts 21:25

As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication.

Matched English: observe
Acts 24:23

And he commanded a centurion to keep Paul, and to let him have liberty, and that he should forbid none of his acquaintance to minister or come unto him.

Matched English: keep
Acts 25:4

But Festus answered, that Paul should be kept at Caesarea, and that he himself would depart shortly thither.

Matched English: kept
Acts 25:21

But when Paul had appealed to be reserved unto the hearing of Augustus, I commanded him to be kept till I might send him to Caesar.

Matched English: reserved, kept
1 Corinthians 7:37

Nevertheless he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having no necessity, but hath power over his own will, and hath so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin, doeth well.

Matched English: keep
2 Corinthians 11:9

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.

Matched English: kept, keep
Ephesians 4:3

Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

Matched English: keep
1 Thessalonians 5:23

And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Matched English: preserved
1 Timothy 5:22

Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other men's sins: keep thyself pure.

Matched English: keep
1 Timothy 6:14

That thou keep this commandment without spot, unrebukeable, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ:

Matched English: keep
2 Timothy 4:7

I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:

Matched English: kept
James 1:27

Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

Matched English: keep
James 2:10

For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.

Matched English: keep
1 Peter 1:4

To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,

Matched English: reserved
2 Peter 2:4

For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;

Matched English: reserved
2 Peter 2:9

The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:

Matched English: reserve
2 Peter 2:17

These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.

Matched English: reserved
2 Peter 3:7

But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.

Matched English: reserved
1 John 2:3

And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.

Matched English: keep
1 John 2:4

He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

Matched English: keepeth