Strong's Concordance H8104

Original Word: שָׁמַר
Transliteration: shâmar
Phonetic Spelling: 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).

Usages throughout the bible

Jeremiah 35:18 - 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 H8104 all his precepts, and done according unto all that he hath commanded you:

Jeremiah 51:12 - Set up the standard upon the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set up the watchmen, H8104 prepare the ambushes: for the LORD hath both devised and done that which he spake against the inhabitants of Babylon.

Jeremiah 52:24 - And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers H8104 of the door:

Ezekiel 11:20 - That they may walk in my statutes, and keep H8104 mine ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.

Ezekiel 17:14 - That the kingdom might be base, that it might not lift itself up, but that by keeping H8104 of his covenant it might stand.

Ezekiel 18:9 - Hath walked in my statutes, and hath kept H8104 my judgments, to deal truly; he is just, he shall surely live, saith the Lord GOD.

Ezekiel 18:19 - 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 H8104 all my statutes, and hath done them, he shall surely live.

Ezekiel 18:21 - But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep H8104 all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.

Ezekiel 20:18 - But I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe H8104 their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols:

Ezekiel 20:19 - I am the LORD your God; walk in my statutes, and keep H8104 my judgments, and do them;

Ezekiel 20:21 - Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me: they walked not in my statutes, neither kept H8104 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 36:27 - And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep H8104 my judgments, and do them.

Ezekiel 37:24 - And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe H8104 my statutes, and do them.

Ezekiel 40:45 - And he said unto me, This chamber, whose prospect is toward the south, is for the priests, the keepers H8104 of the charge of the house.

Ezekiel 40:46 - And the chamber whose prospect is toward the north is for the priests, the keepers H8104 of the charge of the altar: these are the sons of Zadok among the sons of Levi, which come near to the LORD to minister unto him.

Ezekiel 43:11 - And if they be ashamed of all that they have done, shew them the form of the house, and the fashion thereof, and the goings out thereof, and the comings in thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the laws thereof: and write it in their sight, that they may keep H8104 the whole form thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and do them.

Ezekiel 44:8 - And ye have not kept H8104 the charge of mine holy things: but ye have set keepers H8104 of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves.

Ezekiel 44:14 - But I will make them keepers H8104 of the charge of the house, for all the service thereof, and for all that shall be done therein.

Ezekiel 44:15 - But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept H8104 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 44:16 - They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to minister unto me, and they shall keep H8104 my charge.

Ezekiel 44:24 - And in controversy they shall stand in judgment; and they shall judge it according to my judgments: and they shall keep H8104 my laws and my statutes in all mine assemblies; and they shall hallow my sabbaths.

Ezekiel 48:11 - It shall be for the priests that are sanctified of the sons of Zadok; which have kept H8104 my charge, which went not astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.

Daniel 9:4 - And I prayed unto the LORD my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping H8104 the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep H8104 his commandments;

Hosea 4:10 - For they shall eat, and not have enough: they shall commit whoredom, and shall not increase: because they have left off to take heed H8104 to the LORD.

Hosea 12:6 - Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep H8104 mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually.

Hosea 12:12 - And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept H8104 sheep.

Hosea 12:13 - And by a prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he preserved. H8104

Amos 1:11 - 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 H8104 his wrath for ever:

Amos 2:4 - 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 H8104 his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after the which their fathers have walked:

Jonah 2:8 - They that observe H8104 lying vanities forsake their own mercy.

Micah 6:16 - For the statutes of Omri are kept, H8104 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.

Micah 7:5 - Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep H8104 the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.

Zechariah 3:7 - Thus saith the LORD of hosts; If thou wilt walk in my ways, and if thou wilt keep H8104 my charge, then thou shalt also judge my house, and shalt also keep H8104 my courts, and I will give thee places to walk among these that stand by.

Zechariah 11:11 - And it was broken in that day: and so the poor of the flock that waited H8104 upon me knew that it was the word of the LORD.

Malachi 2:7 - For the priest's lips should keep H8104 knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts.

Malachi 2:9 - Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept H8104 my ways, but have been partial in the law.

Malachi 2:15 - And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed H8104 to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

Malachi 2:16 - For the LORD, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away: for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the LORD of hosts: therefore take heed H8104 to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.

Malachi 3:7 - Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept H8104 them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we return?

Malachi 3:14 - Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept H8104 his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts?