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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.

Psalms 141:9

Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity.

Matched English: KeepPsalms 145:20

The LORD preserveth all them that love him: but all the wicked will he destroy.

Matched English: preservethPsalms 146:6

Which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that therein is: which keepeth truth for ever:

Matched English: keepethPsalms 146:9

The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.

Matched English: preservethProverbs 2:8

He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints.

Matched English: preservethProverbs 2:11

Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:

Matched English: preserveProverbs 2:20

That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.

Matched English: keepProverbs 3:26

For the LORD shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken.

Matched English: keepProverbs 4:4

He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.

Matched English: keepProverbs 4:6

Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee.

Matched English: preserveProverbs 4:21

Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.

Matched English: keepProverbs 5:2

That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.

Matched English: regardProverbs 6:22

When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.

Matched English: keepProverbs 6:24

To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

Matched English: keepProverbs 7:1

My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.

Matched English: keepProverbs 7:2

Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.

Matched English: KeepProverbs 7:5

That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.

Matched English: keepProverbs 8:32

Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways.

Matched English: keepProverbs 8:34

Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.

Matched English: waitingProverbs 10:17

He is in the way of life that keepeth instruction: but he that refuseth reproof erreth.

Matched English: keepethProverbs 13:3

He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.

Matched English: keepethProverbs 13:18

Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuseth instruction: but he that regardeth reproof shall be honoured.

Matched English: regardethProverbs 14:3

In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride: but the lips of the wise shall preserve them.

Matched English: preserveProverbs 15:5

A fool despiseth his father's instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.

Matched English: regardeth