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DEEP KJV WORD STUDY

Kept

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175exact KJV occurrences 128Old Testament 47New Testament 42books containing the word 26mapped Strong's IDs 143occurrence-specific Strong's links
FIRST OCCURRENCE

Genesis 26:5

Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.

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LAST OCCURRENCE

Revelation 3:10

Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.

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KJV DISTRIBUTION

Where kept 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'

70 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 26:5Strong's last: Malachi 3:14

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HebrewH6213
עָשָׂה

ʻâsâh · aw-saw'

18 times translated as this KJV form2,630 total Strong's occurrences

v

to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application

Strong's KJV usage: accomplish, advance, appoint, apt, be at, become, bear, bestow, bring forth, bruise, be busy, × certainly, have the charge of, commit, deal (with), deck, displease, do, (ready) dress(-ed), (put in) execute(-ion), exercise, fashion, feast, (fight-) ing man, finish, fit, fly, follow, fulfill, furnish, gather, get, go about, govern, grant, great, hinder, hold (a feast), × indeed, be industrious, journey, keep, labour, maintain, make, be meet, observe, be occupied, offer, officer, pare, bring (come) to pass, perform, pracise, prepare, procure, provide, put, requite, × sacrifice, serve, set, shew, × sin, spend, × surely, take, × thoroughly, trim, × very, vex, be (warr-) ior, work(-man), yield, use.

Strong's first: Numbers 9:5Strong's last: Ezekiel 5:7

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GreekG5083
τηρέω

tēréō · tay-reh'-o

15 times translated as this KJV form76 total Strong's occurrences

to guard (from loss or injury, properly, by keeping the eye upon; and thus differing from G5442, which is properly to prevent escaping; and from G2892, which implies a fortress or full military lines of apparatus), i.e. to note (a prophecy; figuratively, to fulfil a command); by implication, to detain (in custody; figuratively, to maintain); by extension, to withhold (for personal ends; figuratively, to keep unmarried); by extension, to withhold (for personal ends; figuratively, to keep unmarried)

Strong's KJV usage: :--hold fast, keep(- er), (pre-, re-)serve, watch.

Strong's first: John 2:10Strong's last: Revelation 3:10

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HebrewH4931
מִשְׁמֶרֶת

mishmereth · mish-mer'-reth

6 times translated as this KJV form78 total Strong's occurrences

n-f

watch, i.e. the act (custody), or (concretely) the sentry, the post; objectively preservation, or (concretely) safe; figuratively observance, i.e. (abstractly) duty or (objectively) a usage or party

Strong's KJV usage: charge, keep, or to be kept, office, ordinace, safeguard, ward, watch.

Strong's first: Exodus 16:23Strong's last: Numbers 19:9

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HebrewH5341
נָצַר

nâtsar · naw-tsar'

4 times translated as this KJV form62 total Strong's occurrences

v

to guard, in a good sense (to protect, maintain, obey, etc.) or a bad one (to conceal, etc.)

Strong's KJV usage: besieged, hidden thing, keep(-er, -ing), monument, observe, preserve(-r), subtil, watcher(-man).

Strong's first: Deuteronomy 32:10Strong's last: Psalms 119:56

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GreekG5432
φρουρέω

phrouréō · froo-reh'-o

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

to be a watcher in advance, i.e. to mount guard as a sentinel (post spies at gates); figuratively, to hem in, protect

Strong's KJV usage: :--keep (with a garrison).

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: 2 Corinthians 11:32Strong's last: 1 Peter 1:5

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GreekG1096
γίνομαι

gínomai · ghin'-om-ahee

1 times translated as this KJV form701 total Strong's occurrences

to cause to be ("gen"-erate), i.e. (reflexively) to become (come into being), used with great latitude (literal, figurative, intensive, etc.)

Strong's KJV usage: :--arise, be assembled, be(-come, -fall, -have self), be brought (to pass), (be) come (to pass), continue, be divided, draw, be ended, fall, be finished, follow, be found, be fulfilled, + God forbid, grow, happen, have, be kept, be made, be married, be ordained to be, partake, pass, be performed, be published, require, seem, be showed, X soon as it was, sound, be taken, be turned, use, wax, will, would, be wrought.

Strong's first: Mark 4:22Strong's last: Mark 4:22

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GreekG1301
διατηρέω

diatēréō · dee-at-ay-reh'-o

1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences

to watch thoroughly, i.e. (positively and transitively) to observe strictly, or (negatively and reflexively) to avoid wholly

Strong's KJV usage: :--keep.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Luke 2:51Strong's last: Luke 2:51

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GreekG4160
ποιέω

poiéō · poy-eh'-o

1 times translated as this KJV form603 total Strong's occurrences

to make or do (in a very wide application, more or less direct)

Strong's KJV usage: :--abide, + agree, appoint, X avenge, + band together, be, bear, + bewray, bring (forth), cast out, cause, commit, + content, continue, deal, + without any delay, (would) do(-ing), execute, exercise, fulfil, gain, give, have, hold, X journeying, keep, + lay wait, + lighten the ship, make, X mean, + none of these things move me, observe, ordain, perform, provide, + have purged, purpose, put, + raising up, X secure, shew, X shoot out, spend, take, tarry, + transgress the law, work, yield.

Strong's first: Hebrews 11:28Strong's last: Hebrews 11:28

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GreekG4933
συντηρέω

syntēréō · soon-tay-reh'-o

1 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences

to keep closely together, i.e. (by implication) to conserve (from ruin); mentally, to remember (and obey)

Strong's KJV usage: :--keep, observe, preserve.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Luke 2:19Strong's last: Luke 2:19

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HebrewH1961
הָיָה

hâyâh · haw-yaw

1 times translated as this KJV form76 total Strong's occurrences

v

to exist, i.e. be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)

Strong's KJV usage: beacon, × altogether, be(-come), accomplished, committed, like), break, cause, come (to pass), do, faint, fall, follow, happen, × have, last, pertain, quit (one-) self, require, × use.

Strong's first: Exodus 3:1Strong's last: Exodus 3:1

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HebrewH2820
חָשַׂךְ

châsak · khaw-sak'

1 times translated as this KJV form27 total Strong's occurrences

v

to restrain or (reflex.) refrain; by implication, to refuse, spare, preserve; to observe

Strong's KJV usage: assuage, × darken, forbear, hinder, hold back, keep (back), punish, refrain, reserve, spare, withhold.

Strong's first: 1 Samuel 25:39Strong's last: 1 Samuel 25:39

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HebrewH6113
עָצָר

ʻâtsâr · aw-tsar'

1 times translated as this KJV form46 total Strong's occurrences

v

to inclose; by analogy, to hold back; also to maintain, rule, assemble

Strong's KJV usage: × be able, close up, detain, fast, keep (self close, still), prevail, recover, refrain, × reign, restrain, retain, shut (up), slack, stay, stop, withhold (self).

Strong's first: 1 Samuel 21:5Strong's last: 1 Samuel 21:5

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HebrewH6942
קָדַשׁ

qâdash · kaw-dash'

1 times translated as this KJV form173 total Strong's occurrences

v

to be (causatively, make, pronounce or observe as) clean (ceremonially or morally)

Strong's KJV usage: appoint, bid, consecrate, dedicate, defile, hallow, (be, keep) holy(-er, place), keep, prepare, proclaim, purify, sanctify(-ied one, self), × wholly.

Strong's first: Isaiah 30:29Strong's last: Isaiah 30:29

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HebrewH7462
רָעָה

râʻâh · raw-aw'

1 times translated as this KJV form172 total Strong's occurrences

v

to tend a flock; i.e. pasture it; intransitively, to graze (literally or figuratively); generally to rule; by extension, to associate with (as a friend)

Strong's KJV usage: × break, companion, keep company with, devour, eat up, evil entreat, feed, use as a friend, make friendship with, herdman, keep (sheep) (-er), pastor, shearing house, shepherd, wander, waste.

Strong's first: 1 Samuel 17:34Strong's last: 1 Samuel 17:34

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EVERY OCCURRENCE

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175 occurrences match the current filters. Each row keeps its exact KJV token position so Original Word and TSK remain occurrence-specific.

Genesis 26:5
H8104

Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.

Genesis 29:9
no direct Strong's tag

And while he yet spake with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep: for she kept them.

Genesis 39:9
no direct Strong's tag

There is none greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou art his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?

Genesis 42:16
no direct Strong's tag

Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother, and ye shall be kept in prison, that your words may be proved, whether there be any truth in you: or else by the life of Pharaoh surely ye are spies.

Exodus 3:1
H1961

Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb.

Exodus 16:23
H4931

And he said unto them, This is that which the LORD hath said, To morrow is the rest of the holy sabbath unto the LORD: bake that which ye will bake to day, and seethe that ye will seethe; and that which remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning.

Exodus 16:32
H4931

And Moses said, This is the thing which the LORD commandeth, Fill an omer of it to be kept for your generations; that they may see the bread wherewith I have fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt.

Exodus 16:33
H4931

And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a pot, and put an omer full of manna therein, and lay it up before the LORD, to be kept for your generations.

Exodus 16:34
H4931

As the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.

Exodus 21:29
H8104

But if the ox were wont to push with his horn in time past, and it hath been testified to his owner, and he hath not kept him in, but that he hath killed a man or a woman; the ox shall be stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death.

Exodus 21:36
H8104

Or if it be known that the ox hath used to push in time past, and his owner hath not kept him in; he shall surely pay ox for ox; and the dead shall be his own.

Numbers 5:13
no direct Strong's tag

And a man lie with her carnally, and it be hid from the eyes of her husband, and be kept close, and she be defiled, and there be no witness against her, neither she be taken with the manner;

Numbers 9:5
H6213

And they kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month at even in the wilderness of Sinai: according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel.

Numbers 9:7
no direct Strong's tag

And those men said unto him, We are defiled by the dead body of a man: wherefore are we kept back, that we may not offer an offering of the LORD in his appointed season among the children of Israel?

Numbers 9:19
H8104

And when the cloud tarried long upon the tabernacle many days, then the children of Israel kept the charge of the LORD, and journeyed not.

Numbers 9:23
H8104

At the commandment of the LORD they rested in the tents, and at the commandment of the LORD they journeyed: they kept the charge of the LORD, at the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses.

Numbers 17:10
H4931

And the LORD said unto Moses, Bring Aaron's rod again before the testimony, to be kept for a token against the rebels; and thou shalt quite take away their murmurings from me, that they die not.

Numbers 19:9
H4931

And a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up without the camp in a clean place, and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a water of separation: it is a purification for sin.

Numbers 24:11
no direct Strong's tag

Therefore now flee thou to thy place: I thought to promote thee unto great honour; but, lo, the LORD hath kept thee back from honour.

Numbers 31:47
H8104

Even of the children of Israel's half, Moses took one portion of fifty, both of man and of beast, and gave them unto the Levites, which kept the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD; as the LORD commanded Moses.

Deuteronomy 32:10
H5341

He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.

Deuteronomy 33:9
H5341

Who said unto his father and to his mother, I have not seen him; neither did he acknowledge his brethren, nor knew his own children: for they have observed thy word, and kept thy covenant.

Joshua 5:10
H6213

And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal, and kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the month at even in the plains of Jericho.

Joshua 14:10
no direct Strong's tag

And now, behold, the LORD hath kept me alive, as he said, these forty and five years, even since the LORD spake this word unto Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old.

Joshua 22:2
H8104

And said unto them, Ye have kept all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, and have obeyed my voice in all that I commanded you:

WEBSTER’S 1828

English meaning and historical usage.

Dictionary data is kept visibly separate from Scripture and from lexical Strong's data.

kept

KEPT, preterit tense and participle passive of keep.

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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