Hebrew Strong's Lexicon

H8104

Lemma: שָׁמַר

Transliteration: shaw-mar'

Definition: a primitive root; properly, to hedge about (as with thorns), i.e. guard; generally, to protect, attend to, etc.

KJV Definition: 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)

Verse usage

2 Reinan 11:5 NASB
He commanded them, saying, "This is the thing that you shall do: one third of you, who come in on the sabbath and keep watch over the king's house
2 Reinan 11:6 NASB
(one third also [shall be] at the gate Sur, and one third at the gate behind the guards), shall keep watch over the house for defense.
2 Reinan 11:7 NASB
"Two parts of you, [even] all who go out on the sabbath, shall also keep watch over the house of the LORD for the king.
2 Reinan 12:9 NASB
But Jehoiada the priest took a chest and bored a hole in its lid and put it beside the altar, on the right side as one comes into the house of the LORD; and the priests who guarded the threshold put in it all the money which was brought into the house of the LORD.
2 Reinan 17:13 NASB
Yet the LORD warned Israel and Judah through all His prophets [and] every seer, saying, "Turn from your evil ways and keep My commandments, My statutes according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you through My servants the prophets."
2 Reinan 17:19 NASB
Also Judah did not keep the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the customs which Israel had introduced.
2 Reinan 17:37 NASB
"The statutes and the ordinances and the law and the commandment which He wrote for you, you shall observe to do forever; and you shall not fear other gods.
2 Reinan 18:6 NASB
For he clung to the LORD; he did not depart from following Him, but kept His commandments, which the LORD had commanded Moses.
2 Reinan 21:8 NASB
"And I will not make the feet of Israel wander anymore from the land which I gave their fathers, if only they will observe to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that My servant Moses commanded them."
2 Reinan 22:4 NASB
"Go up to Hilkiah the high priest that he may count the money brought in to the house of the LORD which the doorkeepers have gathered from the people.
2 Reinan 22:14 NASB
So Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam, Achbor, Shaphan, and Asaiah went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe (now she lived in Jerusalem in the Second Quarter); and they spoke to her.
2 Reinan 23:3 NASB
The king stood by the pillar and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep His commandments and His testimonies and His statutes with all [his] heart and all [his] soul, to carry out the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people entered into the covenant.
2 Reinan 23:4 NASB
Then the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest and the priests of the second order and the doorkeepers, to bring out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels that were made for Baal, for Asherah, and for all the host of heaven; and he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel.
2 Reinan 25:18 NASB
Then the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest and Zephaniah the second priest, with the three officers of the temple.
1 Kronikonan 9:19 NASB
Shallum the son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his relatives of his father's house, the Korahites, [were] over the work of the service, keepers of the thresholds of the tent; and their fathers had been over the camp of the LORD, keepers of the entrance.
1 Kronikonan 10:13 NASB
So Saul died for his trespass which he committed against the LORD, because of the word of the LORD which he did not keep; and also because he asked counsel of a medium, making inquiry [of it],
1 Kronikonan 12:29 NASB
Of the sons of Benjamin, Saul's kinsmen, 3,000; for until now the greatest part of them had kept their allegiance to the house of Saul.
1 Kronikonan 22:12 NASB
"Only the LORD give you discretion and understanding, and give you charge over Israel, so that you may keep the law of the LORD your God.
1 Kronikonan 22:13 NASB
"Then you will prosper, if you are careful to observe the statutes and the ordinances which the LORD commanded Moses concerning Israel. Be strong and courageous, do not fear nor be dismayed.
1 Kronikonan 23:32 NASB
Thus they are to keep charge of the tent of meeting, and charge of the holy place, and charge of the sons of Aaron their relatives, for the service of the house of the LORD.