Hebrew Lexicon Strong's Concordance Definition

Strong's H8104: שָׁמַר (shâmar) Definition

Strong's number
H8104
Lemma
שָׁמַר
Transliteration
shâmar
Pronunciation
shaw-mar'
Strong's definition
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). a primitive root;

439 instances of the word שָׁמַר shâmar (H8104)


  • Leviticus 26:2 - my sabbaths Ye shall keep my sanctuary and reverence I am the LORD

  • Leviticus 26:3 - in my statutes my commandments and keep and do

  • Malachi 2:7 - lips For the priest's should keep knowledge the law and they should seek 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 my ways but have been partial in the law

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

  • Malachi 2:16 - that he hateth putting away saith For the LORD the God of Israel for one covereth violence with his garment saith For the LORD of hosts therefore take heed 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 Wherein shall we return Wherein shall we return But ye said 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 his ordinance and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts

  • Micah 6:16 - are kept For the statutes of Omri and all the works of the house of Ahab in their counsels that I should make thee a desolation and the inhabitants thereof an hissing the reproach of my people therefore ye shall bear

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

  • Nehemiah 1:5 - And said I beseech thee O LORD God of heaven God the great and terrible him and observe covenant and mercy for them that love him and observe his commandments

  • Nehemiah 1:7 - We have dealt very We have dealt very against thee and have not kept the commandments nor the statutes nor the judgments which thou commandedst Moses thy servant

  • Nehemiah 1:9 - But if ye turn unto me and keep my commandments and do them though there were of you cast out unto the uttermost part of the heaven yet will I gather them from thence and will bring them unto the place that I have chosen to set my name

  • Nehemiah 2:8 - And a letter unto Asaph the keeper forest And the king granted me timber to make beams for the gates of the palace and for the house and for the wall of the city and for the house that I shall enter into granted And the king hand of my God me according to the good

  • Nehemiah 3:29 - After him repaired Zadok the son of Immer over against his house After him repaired also Shemaiah the son of Shechaniah the keeper gate of the east

  • Nehemiah 9:32 - Now therefore our God God the great the mighty and the terrible who keepest covenant and mercy seem little before let not all the trouble thee that hath come of the kings on our princes and on our priests and on our prophets and on our fathers and on all thy people since the time of the kings of Assyria since the time

  • Nehemiah 10:29 - They clave to their brethren their nobles and entered into a curse and into an oath law in God's which was given by Moses the servant in God's and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord and his judgments and his statutes

  • Nehemiah 11:19 - Moreover the porters Akkub Talmon and their brethren that kept the gates were an hundred seventy and two

  • Nehemiah 12:25 - Mattaniah and Bakbukiah Obadiah Meshullam Talmon Akkub keeping were porters the ward at the thresholds of the gates

  • Nehemiah 12:45 - kept and the ward of their God and the ward of the purification And both the singers and the porters according to the commandment of David and of Solomon his son