H8104 — shamar
The entry below is Strong’s own definition (1890, public domain), and every verse where the word occurs.
shamar — pronounced shaw-mar
a primitive root; properly, to hedge about (as with thorns), i.e. guard; generally, to protect, attend to, etc.:--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).
466 occurrences in the KJV.
Psalms 37:34
Wait on the LORD, and keep his way, and he shall exalt thee to inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see it.
Psalms 37:37
Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace.
Psalms 39:1
I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.
Psalms 39:1
I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.
Psalms 41:2
The LORD will preserve him, and keep him alive; and he shall be blessed upon the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies.
Psalms 56:6
They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.
Psalms 59:9
Because of his strength will I wait upon thee: for God is my defence.
Psalms 71:10
For mine enemies speak against me; and they that lay wait for my soul take counsel together,
Psalms 78:10
They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;
Psalms 78:56
Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:
Psalms 86:2
Preserve my soul; for I am holy: O thou my God, save thy servant that trusteth in thee.
Psalms 89:28
My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him.
Psalms 89:31
If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments;
Psalms 91:11
For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.
Psalms 97:10
Ye that love the LORD, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.
Psalms 99:7
He spake unto them in the cloudy pillar: they kept his testimonies, and the ordinance that he gave them.
Psalms 103:18
To such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his commandments to do them.
Psalms 105:45
That they might observe his statutes, and keep his laws. Praise ye the LORD.
Psalms 106:3
Blessed are they that keep judgment, and he that doeth righteousness at all times.
Psalms 107:43
Whoso is wise, and will observe these things, even they shall understand the lovingkindness of the LORD.
Psalms 116:6
The LORD preserveth the simple: I was brought low, and he helped me.
Psalms 119:4
Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently.
Psalms 119:5
O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!
Psalms 119:8
I will keep thy statutes: O forsake me not utterly.
Psalms 119:9
Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.
Psalms 119:17
Deal bountifully with thy servant, that I may live, and keep thy word.
Psalms 119:34
Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.
Psalms 119:44
So shall I keep thy law continually for ever and ever.
Psalms 119:55
I have remembered thy name, O LORD, in the night, and have kept thy law.
Psalms 119:57
Thou art my portion, O LORD: I have said that I would keep thy words.
Psalms 119:60
I made haste, and delayed not to keep thy commandments.
Psalms 119:63
I am a companion of all them that fear thee, and of them that keep thy precepts.
Psalms 119:67
Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.
Psalms 119:88
Quicken me after thy lovingkindness; so shall I keep the testimony of thy mouth.
Psalms 119:101
I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep thy word.
Psalms 119:106
I have sworn, and I will perform it, that I will keep thy righteous judgments.
Psalms 119:134
Deliver me from the oppression of man: so will I keep thy precepts.
Psalms 119:136
Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law.
Psalms 119:146
I cried unto thee; save me, and I shall keep thy testimonies.
Psalms 119:158
I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved; because they kept not thy word.
Psalms 119:167
My soul hath kept thy testimonies; and I love them exceedingly.
Psalms 119:168
I have kept thy precepts and thy testimonies: for all my ways are before thee.
Psalms 121:3
He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber.
Psalms 121:4
Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.
Psalms 121:7
The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul.
Psalms 121:7
The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul.
Psalms 121:8
The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.
Psalms 127:1
Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.
Psalms 127:1
Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.
Psalms 130:3
If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?
Psalms 130:6
My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning.
Psalms 130:6
My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning.
Psalms 132:12
If thy children will keep my covenant and my testimony that I shall teach them, their children shall also sit upon thy throne for evermore.
Psalms 140:4
Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the violent man; who have purposed to overthrow my goings.
Psalms 141:9
Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity.
Psalms 145:20
The LORD preserveth all them that love him: but all the wicked will he destroy.
Psalms 146:6
Which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that therein is: which keepeth truth for ever:
Psalms 146:9
The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
Proverbs 2:8
He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints.
Proverbs 2:11
Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:
Proverbs 2:20
That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.
Proverbs 3:26
For the LORD shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken.
Proverbs 4:4
He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.
Proverbs 4:6
Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee.
Proverbs 4:21
Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.
Proverbs 5:2
That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.
Proverbs 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.
Proverbs 6:24
To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
Proverbs 7:1
My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
Proverbs 7:2
Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.
Proverbs 7:5
That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.
Proverbs 8:32
Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways.
Proverbs 8:34
Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.
Proverbs 10:17
He is in the way of life that keepeth instruction: but he that refuseth reproof erreth.
Proverbs 13:3
He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.
Proverbs 13:18
Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuseth instruction: but he that regardeth reproof shall be honoured.
Proverbs 14:3
In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride: but the lips of the wise shall preserve them.
Proverbs 15:5
A fool despiseth his father’s instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.
Proverbs 16:17
The highway of the upright is to depart from evil: he that keepeth his way preserveth his soul.
Proverbs 19:8
He that getteth wisdom loveth his own soul: he that keepeth understanding shall find good.
Proverbs 19:16
He that keepeth the commandment keepeth his own soul; but he that despiseth his ways shall die.
Proverbs 19:16
He that keepeth the commandment keepeth his own soul; but he that despiseth his ways shall die.
Proverbs 21:23
Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles.
Proverbs 21:23
Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles.
Proverbs 22:5
Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward: he that doth keep his soul shall be far from them.
Proverbs 22:18
For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips.
Proverbs 27:18
Whoso keepeth the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof: so he that waiteth on his master shall be honoured.
Proverbs 28:4
They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but such as keep the law contend with them.
Proverbs 29:18
Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.
Ecclesiastes 3:6
A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
Ecclesiastes 5:1
Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.
Ecclesiastes 5:8
If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.
Ecclesiastes 5:13
There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.
Ecclesiastes 8:2
I counsel thee to keep the king’s commandment, and that in regard of the oath of God.
Ecclesiastes 8:5
Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man’s heart discerneth both time and judgment.
Ecclesiastes 11:4
He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap.
Ecclesiastes 12:3
In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened,
Ecclesiastes 12:13
Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
Song of Solomon 3:3
The watchmen that go about the city found me: to whom I said, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth?
Song of Solomon 5:7
The watchmen that went about the city found me, they smote me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.