H8104 שָׁמַר
Strong's Hebrew Concordance · 467 KJV occurrences
שָׁמַר
shâmar · shaw-mar'
Definition
properly, to hedge about (as with thorns), i.e. guard; generally, to protect, attend to, etc.
KJV Renderings
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).
Derivation / Etymology
a primitive root;
Sample KJV Verses (8 of 467)
- Genesis 2:15And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
- Numbers 3:8And they shall keep all the instruments of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the charge of the children of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle.
- Deuteronomy 12:30Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.
- 1 Samuel 19:11Saul also sent messengers unto David’s house, to watch him, and to slay him in the morning: and Michal David’s wife told him, saying, If thou save not thy life to night, to morrow thou shalt be slain.
- 1 Chronicles 9:19And Shallum the son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his brethren, of the house of his father, the Korahites, were over the work of the service, keepers of the gates of the tabernacle: and their fathers, being over the host of the LORD, were keepers of the entry.
- Psalms 17:4Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer.
- Psalms 130:3If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?
- Isaiah 56:1Thus saith the LORD, Keep ye judgment, and do justice: for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed.