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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.

Psalms 119:55
H8104

I have remembered thy name, O LORD, in the night, and have kept thy law.

Psalms 119:67
H8104

Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.

Psalms 119:158
H8104

I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved; because they kept not thy word.

Psalms 119:167
H8104

My soul hath kept thy testimonies; and I love them exceedingly.

Psalms 119:168
H8104

I have kept thy precepts and thy testimonies: for all my ways are before thee.

Ecclesiastes 2:10
H680

And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour.

Ecclesiastes 5:13
H8104

There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.

Song of Solomon 1:6
H5201

Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me: my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept.

Isaiah 30:29
H6942

Ye shall have a song, as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the mountain of the LORD, to the mighty One of Israel.

Jeremiah 16:11
H8104

Then shalt thou say unto them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, saith the LORD, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshipped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my law;

Jeremiah 35:18
H8104

And Jeremiah said unto the house of the Rechabites, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Because ye have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done according unto all that he hath commanded you:

Ezekiel 5:7
H6213

Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye multiplied more than the nations that are round about you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my judgments, neither have done according to the judgments of the nations that are round about you;

Ezekiel 18:9
H8104

Hath walked in my statutes, and hath kept my judgments, to deal truly; he is just, he shall surely live, saith the Lord GOD.

Ezekiel 18:19
H8104

Yet say ye, Why? doth not the son bear the iniquity of the father? When the son hath done that which is lawful and right, and hath kept all my statutes, and hath done them, he shall surely live.

Ezekiel 20:21
H8104

Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me: they walked not in my statutes, neither kept my judgments to do them, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; they polluted my sabbaths: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.

Ezekiel 44:8
H8104

And ye have not kept the charge of mine holy things: but ye have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves.

Ezekiel 44:15
H8104

But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to me to minister unto me, and they shall stand before me to offer unto me the fat and the blood, saith the Lord GOD:

Ezekiel 48:11
H8104

It shall be for the priests that are sanctified of the sons of Zadok; which have kept my charge, which went not astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.

Daniel 5:19
no direct Strong's tag

And for the majesty that he gave him, all people, nations, and languages, trembled and feared before him: whom he would he slew; and whom he would he kept alive; and whom he would he set up; and whom he would he put down.

Daniel 7:28
H5202

Hitherto is the end of the matter. As for me Daniel, my cogitations much troubled me, and my countenance changed in me: but I kept the matter in my heart.

Hosea 12:12
H8104

And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.

Amos 1:11
H8104

Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he did pursue his brother with the sword, and did cast off all pity, and his anger did tear perpetually, and he kept his wrath for ever:

Amos 2:4
H8104

Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have despised the law of the LORD, and have not kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after the which their fathers have walked:

Micah 6:16
H8104

For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people.

WEBSTER’S 1828

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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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