Genesis 24:6
And Abraham said unto him, Beware thou that thou bring not my son thither again.
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Beware
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2 Peter 3:17
Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.
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שָׁמַר
shâmar · shaw-mar'
9 times translated as this KJV form467 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to hedge about (as with thorns), i.e. guard; generally, to protect, attend to, etc.
Strong's KJV usage: 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).
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Strong's first: Genesis 24:6Strong's last: 2 Kings 6:9
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blépō · blep'-o
7 times translated as this KJV form148 total Strong's occurrences
to look at (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--behold, beware, lie, look (on, to), perceive, regard, see, sight, take heed.
Strong's first: Mark 8:15Strong's last: Colossians 2:8
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proséchō · pros-ekh'-o
7 times translated as this KJV form25 total Strong's occurrences
(figuratively) to hold the mind (3563 implied) towards, i.e. pay attention to, be cautious about, apply oneself to, adhere to
Strong's KJV usage: :--(give) attend(-ance, -ance at, -ance to, unto), beware, be given to, give (take) heed (to unto); have regard.
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Strong's first: Matthew 7:15Strong's last: Luke 20:46
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phylássō · foo-las'-so
2 times translated as this KJV form32 total Strong's occurrences
to watch, i.e. be on guard (literally of figuratively); by implication, to preserve, obey, avoid
Strong's KJV usage: :--beward, keep (self), observe, save.
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Strong's first: Luke 12:15Strong's last: 2 Peter 3:17
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ʻâram · aw-ram'
1 times translated as this KJV form5 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to be (or make) bare; but used only in the derivative sense (through the idea perhaps of smoothness) to be cunning (usually in a bad sense)
Strong's KJV usage: × very, beware, take crafty (counsel), be prudent, deal subtilly.
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Strong's first: Proverbs 19:25Strong's last: Proverbs 19:25
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Because there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee.
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beware
BEWA'RE, verb intransitive
1. Literally, to restrain or guard one's self from. Hence, to regard with caution; to restrain one's self from anything that may be dangerous, injurious or improper; to avoid; to take care; followed by of before the thing that is to be avoided.
Beware of all, but more beware of man.
Beware of false prophets; beware of the leaven of the Pharisees; beware of the concision.
2. To have a special regard to.
Behold, I send an angel before thee--beware of him, and obey his voice. Exodus 23:21.
[This is unusual and hardly legitimate.]
This word though here admitted as a verb, from the Saxon, is rarely used as a verb in fact; or if a verb, is now never used except in the imperative mode It is a compound of be and the Old Eng. ware, now wary. Be wary of danger. Hence it cannot be used with did, like a regular verb, nor with be, in any of its inflections, he is beware; for this would be to use the substantive verb twice before ware and wary, is and be. Ben Jonson however has used the word in the third person. He bewares to act. But it has no past tense or participle, and therefore, if admitted as a verb, it is defective, and used only in the imperative mode, or after an auxiliary.
We must beware of excess.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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