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H8104Hebrew

שָׁמַר

Definition and meaning

shamar (shaw-mar') v. 1. (properly) to hedge about (as with thorns), i.e. guard 2. (generally) to protect, attend to, etc [a primitive root] KJV: 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).

Tagged KJV passages

440 matching verses - 468.0 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.

Job 13:27

Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.

Matched English: narrowly
Job 14:16

For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?

Matched English: watch
Job 22:15

Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?

Matched English: marked
Job 23:11

My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.

Matched English: kept
Job 24:15

The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.

Matched English: waiteth
Job 29:2

Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;

Matched English: preserved
Job 33:11

He putteth my feet in the stocks, he marketh all my paths.

Matched English: marketh
Job 36:21

Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.

Matched English: heed
Job 39:1

Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve?

Matched English: mark
Psalms 12:7

Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.

Matched English: keep
Psalms 16:1

Michtam of David. Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust.

Matched English: Preserve
Psalms 17:4

Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer.

Matched English: kept
Psalms 17:8

Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings,

Matched English: Keep
Psalms 18:21

For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

Matched English: kept
Psalms 18:23

I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity.

Matched English: kept
Psalms 19:11

Moreover by them is thy servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward.

Matched English: keeping
Psalms 25:20

O keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed; for I put my trust in thee.

Matched English: keep
Psalms 31:6

I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the LORD.

Matched English: regard
Psalms 34:20

He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken.

Matched English: keepeth
Psalms 37:28

For the LORD loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.

Matched English: preserved
Psalms 37:34

Wait 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.

Matched English: keep
Psalms 37:37

Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace.

Matched English: Mark
Psalms 39:1

To 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.

Matched English: heed, keep
Psalms 41:2

The 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.

Matched English: preserve