שָׁמַר
sha.mar
1. to keep, guard, observe, give heed
a. (Qal)
1. to keep, have charge of
2. to keep, guard, keep watch and ward, protect, save life
a. watch, watchman (participle)
3. to watch for, wait for
4. to watch, observe
5. to keep, retain, treasure up (in memory)
6. to keep (within bounds), restrain
7. to observe, celebrate, keep (sabbath or covenant or commands), perform (vow)
8. to keep, preserve, protect
9. to keep, reserve
b. (Niphal)
1. to be on one's guard, take heed, take care, beware
2. to keep oneself, refrain, abstain
3. to be kept, be guarded
c. (Piel) to keep, pay heed
d. (Hithpael) to keep oneself from
1. to keep, guard, observe, give heed
a. (Qal)
1. to keep, have charge of
2. to keep, guard, keep watch and ward, protect, save life
a. watch, watchman (participle)
3. to watch for, wait for
4. to watch, observe
5. to keep, retain, treasure up (in memory)
6. to keep (within bounds), restrain
7. to observe, celebrate, keep (sabbath or covenant or commands), perform (vow)
8. to keep, preserve, protect
9. to keep, reserve
b. (Niphal)
1. to be on one's guard, take heed, take care, beware
2. to keep oneself, refrain, abstain
3. to be kept, be guarded
c. (Piel) to keep, pay heed
d. (Hithpael) to keep oneself from
1. to keep, guard, observe, give heed
a. (Qal)
1. to keep, have charge of
2. to keep, guard, keep watch and ward, protect, save life
a. watch, watchman (participle)
3. to watch for, wait for
4. to watch, observe
5. to keep, retain, treasure up (in memory)
6. to keep (within bounds), restrain
7. to observe, celebrate, keep (sabbath or covenant or commands), perform (vow)
8. to keep, preserve, protect
9. to keep, reserve
b. (Niphal)
1. to be on one's guard, take heed, take care, beware
2. to keep oneself, refrain, abstain
3. to be kept, be guarded
c. (Piel) to keep, pay heed
d. (Hithpael) to keep oneself from
1. to keep, guard, observe, give heed
a. (Qal)
1. to keep, have charge of
2. to keep, guard, keep watch and ward, protect, save life
a. watch, watchman (participle)
3. to watch for, wait for
4. to watch, observe
5. to keep, retain, treasure up (in memory)
6. to keep (within bounds), restrain
7. to observe, celebrate, keep (sabbath or covenant or commands), perform (vow)
8. to keep, preserve, protect
9. to keep, reserve
b. (Niphal)
1. to be on one's guard, take heed, take care, beware
2. to keep oneself, refrain, abstain
3. to be kept, be guarded
c. (Piel) to keep, pay heed
d. (Hithpael) to keep oneself from
Lexicon: STEPBible Tyndale House Brief Lexicons (TBESH / TBESG) (CC BY 4.0)
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Concordance 440 verses
- Jeremiah 35:18 וַֽתִּשְׁמְרוּ֙
Then Jeremiah said to the house of the Rechabites: “This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Because you have obeyed the command of your forefather Jonadab and have kept all his commandments and have done all that he charged you to do,
- Jeremiah 51:12 שֹֽׁמְרִ֔ים
Raise a banner against the walls of Babylon; post the guard; station the watchmen; prepare the ambush. For the LORD has both devised and accomplished what He spoke against the people of Babylon.
- Jeremiah 52:24 שֹׁמְרֵ֥י
The captain of the guard also took away Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the priest of second rank, and the three doorkeepers.
- Ezekiel 11:20 יִשְׁמְר֖וּ
so that they may follow My statutes, keep My ordinances, and practice them. Then they will be My people, and I will be their God.
- Ezekiel 17:14 לִשְׁמֹ֥ר
so that the kingdom would be brought low, unable to lift itself up, surviving only by keeping his covenant.
- Ezekiel 18:9 שָׁמַ֖ר
He follows My statutes and faithfully keeps My ordinances. That man is righteous; surely he will live, declares the Lord GOD.
- Ezekiel 18:19 שָׁמַ֛ר
Yet you may ask, ‘Why shouldn’t the son bear the iniquity of his father?’ Since the son has done what is just and right, carefully observing all My statutes, he will surely live.
- Ezekiel 18:21 וְשָׁמַר֙
But if the wicked man turns from all the sins he has committed, keeps all My statutes, and does what is just and right, he will surely live; he will not die.
- Ezekiel 20:18 תִּשְׁמֹ֑רוּ
In the wilderness I said to their children: ‘Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers or keep their ordinances or defile yourselves with their idols.
- Ezekiel 20:19 שִׁמְר֖וּ
I am the LORD your God; walk in My statutes, keep My ordinances, and practice them.
- Ezekiel 20:21 שָׁמְר֜וּ
But the children rebelled against Me. They did not walk in My statutes or carefully observe My ordinances—though the man who does these things will live by them—and they profaned My Sabbaths. So I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and vent My anger against them in the wilderness.
- Ezekiel 36:27 תִּשְׁמְר֖וּ
And I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes and to carefully observe My ordinances.
- Ezekiel 37:24 יִשְׁמְר֖וּ
My servant David will be king over them, and there will be one shepherd for all of them. They will follow My ordinances and keep and observe My statutes.
- Ezekiel 40:45 שֹׁמְרֵ֖י
Then the man said to me: “The chamber that faces south is for the priests who keep charge of the temple,
- Ezekiel 40:46 שֹׁמְרֵ֖י
and the chamber that faces north is for the priests who keep charge of the altar. These are the sons of Zadok, the only Levites who may approach the LORD to minister before Him.”
- Ezekiel 43:11 וְיִשְׁמְר֞וּ
and if they are ashamed of all they have done, then make known to them the design of the temple—its arrangement and its exits and entrances—its whole design along with all its statutes, forms, and laws. Write it down in their sight, so that they may keep its complete design and all its statutes and may carry them out.
- Ezekiel 44:8 שְׁמַרְתֶּ֖םלְשֹׁמְרֵ֧י
And you have not kept charge of My holy things, but have appointed others to keep charge of My sanctuary for you.’
- Ezekiel 44:14 שֹׁמְרֵ֖י
Yet I will appoint them to keep charge of all the work for the temple and everything to be done in it.
- Ezekiel 44:15 שָׁמְר֜וּ
But the Levitical priests, who are descended from Zadok and who kept charge of My sanctuary when the Israelites went astray from Me, are to approach Me to minister before Me. They will stand before Me to offer Me fat and blood, declares the Lord GOD.
- Ezekiel 44:16 וְשָׁמְר֖וּ
They alone shall enter My sanctuary and draw near to My table to minister before Me. They will keep My charge.
- Ezekiel 44:24 יִשְׁמֹ֔רוּ
In any dispute, they shall officiate as judges and judge according to My ordinances. They must keep My laws and statutes regarding all My appointed feasts, and they must keep My Sabbaths holy.
- Ezekiel 48:11 שָׁמְר֖וּ
It will be for the consecrated priests, the descendants of Zadok, who kept My charge and did not go astray as the Levites did when the Israelites went astray.
- Daniel 9:4 שֹׁמֵ֤רוּלְשֹׁמְרֵ֥י
And I prayed to the LORD my God and confessed, “O, Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps His covenant of loving devotion to those who love Him and keep His commandments,
- Hosea 4:10 לִשְׁמֹֽר׃
They will eat but not be satisfied; they will be promiscuous but not multiply. For they have stopped obeying the LORD.
- Hosea 12:6 שְׁמֹ֔ר
But you must return to your God, maintaining love and justice, and always waiting on your God.
- Hosea 12:12 שָׁמָֽר׃
Jacob fled to the land of Aram and Israel worked for a wife— for a wife he tended sheep.
- Hosea 12:13 נִשְׁמָֽר׃
But by a prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet he was preserved.
- Amos 1:11 שְׁמָ֥רָה
This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Edom, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because he pursued his brother with the sword and stifled all compassion; his anger raged continually, and his fury flamed incessantly.
- Amos 2:4 שָׁמָ֔רוּ
This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Judah, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they reject the Law of the LORD and fail to keep His statutes; they are led astray by the lies in which their fathers walked.
- Jonah 2:8 מְשַׁמְּרִ֖ים
Those who cling to worthless idols forsake His loving devotion.
- Micah 6:16 וְיִשְׁתַּמֵּ֞ר
You have kept the statutes of Omri and all the practices of Ahab’s house; you have followed their counsel. Therefore I will make you a desolation, and your inhabitants an object of contempt; you will bear the scorn of the nations.”
- Micah 7:5 שְׁמֹ֖ר
Do not rely on a friend; do not trust in a companion. Seal the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your arms.
- Zechariah 3:7 תִשְׁמֹ֔רתִּשְׁמֹ֣ר
“This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘If you walk in My ways and keep My instructions, then you will govern My house and will also have charge of My courts; and I will give you a place among these who are standing here.
- Zechariah 11:11 הַשֹּׁמְרִ֣ים
It was revoked on that day, and so the afflicted of the flock who were watching me knew that it was the word of the LORD.
- Malachi 2:7 יִשְׁמְרוּ־
For the lips of a priest should preserve knowledge, and people should seek instruction from his mouth, because he is the messenger of the LORD of Hosts.
- Malachi 2:9 שֹׁמְרִ֣ים
“So I in turn have made you despised and humiliated before all the people, because you have not kept My ways, but have shown partiality in matters of the law.”
- Malachi 2:15 וְנִשְׁמַרְתֶּם֙
Has not the LORD made them one, having a portion of the Spirit? And why one? Because He seeks godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit and do not break faith with the wife of your youth.
- Malachi 2:16 וְנִשְׁמַרְתֶּ֥ם
“For I hate divorce,” says the LORD, the God of Israel. “He who divorces his wife covers his garment with violence,” says the LORD of Hosts. So guard yourselves in your spirit and do not break faith.
- Malachi 3:7 שְׁמַרְתֶּ֔ם
Yet from the days of your fathers, you have turned away from My statutes and have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you,” says the LORD of Hosts. “But you ask, ‘How can we return?’
- Malachi 3:14 שָׁמַ֙רְנוּ֙
You have said, ‘It is futile to serve God. What have we gained by keeping His requirements and walking mournfully before the LORD of Hosts?