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)


  • 1 Samuel 21:4 - answered And the priest David and said bread There is no common under mine hand bread hallowed but there is have kept if the young men themselves at least from women

  • 1 Samuel 25:21 - Now David had said Surely in vain have I kept all that this fellow hath in the wilderness was missed so that nothing of all that pertained unto him and he hath requited me evil for good

  • 1 Samuel 26:15 - said And David to Abner Art not thou a valiant man and who is like to thee in Israel wherefore then hast thou not kept thy lord the king for there came one of the people in to destroy the king thy lord

  • 1 Samuel 26:16 - is not good This thing that thou hast done liveth As the LORD ye are worthy to die because ye have not kept your master anointed As the LORD And now see spear where the king's is and the cruse of water that was at his bolster

  • 1 Samuel 28:2 - said And David And Achish Surely thou shalt know can do what thy servant said And Achish And David Surely thee keeper of mine head Therefore will I make for ever

  • 1 Samuel 30:23 - Then said David Ye shall not do so my brethren hath given with that which the LORD us who hath preserved hath given the company that came against us into our hand

  • 2 Chronicles 5:11 - were come out And it came to pass when the priests of the holy And it came to pass when the priests that were present were sanctified and did not then wait by course

  • 2 Chronicles 6:14 - And said O LORD God of Israel God like thee in the heaven nor in the earth which keepest covenant and shewest mercy unto thy servants that walk before thee with all their hearts

  • 2 Chronicles 6:15 - Thou which hast kept with thy servant David my father him and spakest him and spakest with thy mouth it with thine hand and hast fulfilled as it is this day

  • 2 Chronicles 6:16 - Now therefore O LORD God of Israel keep with thy servant David my father that which thou hast promised him saying There shall not fail thee a man before to sit upon the throne of Israel yet so keep that thy children to their way as thou hast walked in my law as thou hast walked before

  • 2 Chronicles 7:17 - walked before walked me as David thy father and do according to all that I have commanded my statutes and my judgments thee and shalt observe

  • 2 Chronicles 12:10 - made Instead of which king Rehoboam shields of brass and committed them to the hands of the chief of the guard that kept the entrance house Instead of which king

  • 2 Chronicles 13:11 - And they burn of the LORD burnt sacrifices every morning every morning and every evening and every evening incense and sweet the shewbread table also set they in order upon the pure and the candlestick of gold with the lamps thereof to burn and every evening and every evening for we keep the charge of the LORD our God but ye have forsaken

  • 2 Chronicles 19:7 - Wherefore now let the fear of the LORD be upon you take heed and do of the LORD our God it for there is no iniquity nor respect of persons nor taking of gifts

  • 2 Chronicles 23:6 - But let none come into the house of the LORD save the priests and they that minister of the Levites But let none come for they are holy but all the people shall keep the watch of the LORD

  • 2 Chronicles 33:8 - Neither will I any more remove the foot of Israel from out of the land which I have appointed for your fathers so that they will take heed to do all that I have commanded them according to the whole law and the statutes and the ordinances by the hand of Moses

  • 2 Chronicles 34:9 - And when they came to Hilkiah priest the high they delivered the money And when they came into the house of God had gathered which the Levites that kept the doors of the hand of Manasseh and Ephraim and of all the remnant of Israel and of all Judah and Benjamin to Jerusalem

  • 2 Chronicles 34:21 - enquire of the LORD for me and for them that are left in Israel and in Judah concerning the words in this book that is found for great is the wrath of the LORD that is poured out have not kept upon us because our fathers concerning the words of the LORD to do after all that is written in this book

  • 2 Chronicles 34:22 - And Hilkiah and they that the king to Huldah the prophetess the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvath the son of Hasrah keeper of the wardrobe now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college and they spake

  • 2 Chronicles 34:31 - stood And the king in his place and made a covenant before the LORD after the LORD and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all his heart and with all his soul to perform the words a covenant which are written in this book