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DEEP KJV WORD STUDY

Beware

Begin with the exact English word as it appears in the King James Bible. Follow its whole-Bible usage, book distribution, related indexed forms, Webster 1828, every occurrence, and the occurrence-specific Hebrew/Aramaic/Greek mappings behind it.

28exact KJV occurrences 12Old Testament 16New Testament 16books containing the word 5mapped Strong's IDs 26occurrence-specific Strong's links
FIRST OCCURRENCE

Genesis 24:6

And Abraham said unto him, Beware thou that thou bring not my son thither again.

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LAST OCCURRENCE

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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KJV DISTRIBUTION

Where Beware appears.

This is exact English-word usage from the canonical KJV token index, not a Strong's estimate.

ORIGINAL-LANGUAGE MAP

Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?

These relationships come from exact verse + token-position mappings. We do not assume that one English spelling always equals one Strong's number. A single English token can also carry more than one source tag, so the Strong's-link total can exceed the number of English occurrences.

HebrewH8104
שָׁמַר

shâmar · shaw-mar'

9 times translated as this KJV form467 total Strong's occurrences

v

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).

Strong's first: Genesis 24:6Strong's last: 2 Kings 6:9

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GreekG4337
προσέχω

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.

Strong's first: Matthew 7:15Strong's last: Luke 20:46

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HebrewH6191
עָרַם

ʻâram · aw-ram'

1 times translated as this KJV form5 total Strong's occurrences

v

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.

Strong's first: Proverbs 19:25Strong's last: Proverbs 19:25

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EVERY OCCURRENCE

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Clear
Judges 13:4
H8104

Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink not wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing:

Judges 13:13
H8104

And the angel of the LORD said unto Manoah, Of all that I said unto the woman let her beware.

WEBSTER’S 1828

English meaning and historical usage.

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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.

SOURCE & METHOD

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KJV English usageExact token counts, verse counts, first/last occurrence, and book distribution come from the canonical TWBC PCE KJV index.
Webster 1828Historical English dictionary material is reproduced as dictionary data, not as inspired Scripture or TWBC commentary.
Original Word / Strong'sHebrew, Aramaic, and Greek links attach by exact verse + KJV token position. No global “English word always equals Strong's ID” rule is used.

Curated TWBC teaching will remain a separate editorial layer. Raw source data is never silently rewritten to force a doctrinal conclusion.