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tēreō G5083

τηρέω (tēreō) means “to keep: observe” in the TBESG Greek lexicon from STEPBible.

τηρέω Greek · G5083 70 tagged occurrences in 64 verses

Pronunciation guide: tay-reh'-o Strong’s Greek pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESG · G5083G

τηρέω · tēreō · to keep: observe

τηρέω, -ῶ [in LXX for שָׁמַר, נָצַר, etc. ;] 1. to watch over, guard, keep, preserve: Mat.27:36, Act.16:23, al.; ἑαυτόν, 2Co.11:9, 1Ti.5:22, Jas.1:27, Ju 21; before εἰς, Jhn.12:7, Act.25:21, 1Pe.1:4, 2Pe.2:4 2:9 3:7, Ju 6; ἐν, Jhn.17:11-12, Ju 21; ἐκ, Jhn.17:15, Rev.3:10; τ. πίστιν, 2Ti.4:7, Rev.14:12; τ. ἑνότητα τ. πνεύματος, Eph.4:3. 2. to watch, give heed to, observe: τ. σάββατον, Jhn.9:16; τ. ἐντολήν (-άς), Mat.19:17, Jhn.14:15 15:10, 1Ti.6:14, 1Jn.2:3-4 Jn 3:22 Jn 3:24 Jn 5:3, Rev.12:17 14:12; τ. λόγον (-ους), Jhn.8:51-52, 55 14:23-24 15:20 17:6, 1Jn.2:5, Rev.3:8, 10 22:7, 9; τ. νόμον, Act.15:5, Jas.2:10; τ. παράδοσιν, Mrk.7:9; τ. ἔργα, Rev.2:26; τ. γεγραμμένα, Rev.1:3 (cf. δια-, παρα-, συν-τηρέω) SYN.: φυλάσσω, implying custody and protection: τ. expresses the idea of watchful care and "may mark the result of which φ. is the means" (Thayer see word) (AS)

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TBESG · G5083H

τηρέω · tēreō · to keep: guard

τηρέω, -ῶ [in LXX for שָׁמַר, נָצַר, etc. ;] 1. to watch over, guard, keep, preserve: Mat.27:36, Act.16:23, al.; ἑαυτόν, 2Co.11:9, 1Ti.5:22, Jas.1:27, Ju 21; before εἰς, Jhn.12:7, Act.25:21, 1Pe.1:4, 2Pe.2:4 2:9 3:7, Ju 6; ἐν, Jhn.17:11-12, Ju 21; ἐκ, Jhn.17:15, Rev.3:10; τ. πίστιν, 2Ti.4:7, Rev.14:12; τ. ἑνότητα τ. πνεύματος, Eph.4:3. 2. to watch, give heed to, observe: τ. σάββατον, Jhn.9:16; τ. ἐντολήν (-άς), Mat.19:17, Jhn.14:15 15:10, 1Ti.6:14, 1Jn.2:3-4 Jn 3:22 Jn 3:24 Jn 5:3, Rev.12:17 14:12; τ. λόγον (-ους), Jhn.8:51-52, 55 14:23-24 15:20 17:6, 1Jn.2:5, Rev.3:8, 10 22:7, 9; τ. νόμον, Act.15:5, Jas.2:10; τ. παράδοσιν, Mrk.7:9; τ. ἔργα, Rev.2:26; τ. γεγραμμένα, Rev.1:3 (cf. δια-, παρα-, συν-τηρέω) SYN.: φυλάσσω, implying custody and protection: τ. expresses the idea of watchful care and "may mark the result of which φ. is the means" (Thayer see word) (AS)

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TBESG · G5083I

τηρέω · tēreō · to keep: protect

τηρέω, -ῶ [in LXX for שָׁמַר, נָצַר, etc. ;] 1. to watch over, guard, keep, preserve: Mat.27:36, Act.16:23, al.; ἑαυτόν, 2Co.11:9, 1Ti.5:22, Jas.1:27, Ju 21; before εἰς, Jhn.12:7, Act.25:21, 1Pe.1:4, 2Pe.2:4 2:9 3:7, Ju 6; ἐν, Jhn.17:11-12, Ju 21; ἐκ, Jhn.17:15, Rev.3:10; τ. πίστιν, 2Ti.4:7, Rev.14:12; τ. ἑνότητα τ. πνεύματος, Eph.4:3. 2. to watch, give heed to, observe: τ. σάββατον, Jhn.9:16; τ. ἐντολήν (-άς), Mat.19:17, Jhn.14:15 15:10, 1Ti.6:14, 1Jn.2:3-4 Jn 3:22 Jn 3:24 Jn 5:3, Rev.12:17 14:12; τ. λόγον (-ους), Jhn.8:51-52, 55 14:23-24 15:20 17:6, 1Jn.2:5, Rev.3:8, 10 22:7, 9; τ. νόμον, Act.15:5, Jas.2:10; τ. παράδοσιν, Mrk.7:9; τ. ἔργα, Rev.2:26; τ. γεγραμμένα, Rev.1:3 (cf. δια-, παρα-, συν-τηρέω) SYN.: φυλάσσω, implying custody and protection: τ. expresses the idea of watchful care and "may mark the result of which φ. is the means" (Thayer see word) (AS)

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Dodson Greek Lexicon

I keep, guard, observe, watch over.

John Jeffrey Dodson · CC0

How translators render G5083

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering Count
keep 7
keeps 7
we keep 3
does not keep 2
to obey 2
you have kept 2
you keep 2
and to keep 1
be held 1
be kept 1
being kept 1
continues 1
did not stay within 1
guards 1
has been reserved 1
have kept 1
have saved 1
he does not keep 1
he will keep 1
i have kept 1
i have refrained 1
i keep 1
i will also keep 1
i will continue to do so 1
is being held 1
is reserved 1
keep it 1
kept 1
maintain 1
not to marry 1
obey 1
observe 1
protect 1
protected 1
protects 1
reserved 1
she has kept 1
standing guard 1
these he has kept 1
they have kept 1
they kept 1
they kept watch over 1
they will keep 1
to be held 1
to be held over 1
to guard 1
to hold 1
to keep paul under guard 1
to preserve 1
was kept 1
who were guarding 1
you will keep 1
KJV rendering counts
Rendering Count
keep 13
keepeth 6
to keep 5
observe 3
we keep 3
hast kept 2
i have kept 2
is reserved 2
kept 2
reserved 2
they have kept 2
be kept 1
be preserved 1
hath she kept 1
have kept 1
he hath reserved 1
he keepeth 1
he that keepeth 1
he will keep 1
hold fast 1
preserved 1
shall keep 1
that 1
that he will keep 1
that keep 1
that keepeth 1
they watched 1
they will keep 1
thou hast kept 1
thou shouldest keep 1
to be kept 1
to be reserved 1
to observe 1
to reserve 1
watching 1
which keep 1
which kept 1
will i keep 1
will keep 1
ye keep 1
ye may keep 1

Verses containing G5083

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  1. Matthew 19:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “Why do you ask Me about what is good?” Jesus replied. “There is only One who is good. If you want to enter life, keep the commandments.”

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  2. Matthew 23:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So practice and observe everything they tell you. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach.

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  3. Matthew 27:36 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And sitting down, they kept watch over Him there.

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  4. Matthew 27:54 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    When the centurion and those with him who were guarding Jesus saw the earthquake and all that had happened, they were terrified and said, “Truly this was the Son of God.”

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  5. Matthew 28:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The guards trembled in fear of him and became like dead men.

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  6. Matthew 28:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    and teaching them to obey all that I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”

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  7. John 2:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    and said, “Everyone serves the fine wine first, and then the cheap wine after the guests are drunk. But you have saved the fine wine until now!”

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  8. John 8:51 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Truly, truly, I tell you, if anyone keeps My word, he will never see death.”

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  9. John 8:52 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “Now we know that You have a demon!” declared the Jews. “Abraham died, and so did the prophets, yet You say that anyone who keeps Your word will never taste death.

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  10. John 8:55 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    You do not know Him, but I know Him. If I said I did not know Him, I would be a liar like you. But I do know Him, and I keep His word.

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  11. John 9:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Because of this, some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, for He does not keep the Sabbath.” But others said, “How can a sinful man perform such signs?” And there was division among them.

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  12. John 12:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “Leave her alone,” Jesus replied. “She has kept this perfume in preparation for the day of My burial.

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  13. John 14:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.

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  14. John 14:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Whoever has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me. The one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him.”

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  15. John 14:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Jesus replied, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word. My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.

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  16. John 14:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Whoever does not love Me does not keep My words. The word that you hear is not My own, but it is from the Father who sent Me.

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  17. John 15:10 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    If you keep My commandments, you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love.

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  18. John 15:20 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    Remember the word that I spoke to you: ‘No servant is greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will persecute you as well; if they kept My word, they will keep yours as well.

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  19. John 17:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    I have revealed Your name to those You have given Me out of the world. They were Yours; You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word.

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  20. John 17:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    I will no longer be in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to You. Holy Father, protect them by Your name, the name You gave Me, so that they may be one as We are one.

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  21. John 17:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    While I was with them, I protected and preserved them by Your name, the name You gave Me. Not one of them has been lost, except the son of destruction, so that the Scripture would be fulfilled.

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  22. John 17:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    I am not asking that You take them out of the world, but that You keep them from the evil one.

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  23. Acts 12:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So Peter was kept in prison, but the church was fervently praying to God for him.

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  24. Acts 12:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    On the night before Herod was to bring him to trial, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, with sentries standing guard at the entrance to the prison.

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  25. Acts 15:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But some believers from the party of the Pharisees stood up and declared, “The Gentiles must be circumcised and required to obey the law of Moses.”

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  26. Acts 16:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And after striking them with many blows, they threw them into prison and ordered the jailer to guard them securely.

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  27. Acts 24:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    He ordered the centurion to keep Paul under guard, but to allow him some freedom and permit his friends to minister to his needs.

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  28. Acts 25:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But Festus replied, “Paul is being held in Caesarea, and I myself am going there soon.

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  29. Acts 25:21 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    But when Paul appealed to be held over for the decision of the Emperor, I ordered that he be held until I could send him to Caesar.”

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  30. 1 Corinthians 7:37 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But the man who is firmly established in his heart and under no constraint, with control over his will and resolve in his heart not to marry the virgin, he will do well.

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  31. 2 Corinthians 11:9 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    And when I was with you and in need, I was not a burden to anyone; for the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied my needs. I have refrained from being a burden to you in any way, and I will continue to do so.

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  32. Ephesians 4:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    and with diligence to preserve the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace.

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  33. 1 Thessalonians 5:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely, and may your entire spirit, soul, and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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  34. 1 Timothy 5:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Do not be too quick in the laying on of hands and thereby share in the sins of others. Keep yourself pure.

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  35. 1 Timothy 6:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Keep this commandment without stain or reproach until the appearance of our Lord Jesus Christ,

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  36. 2 Timothy 4:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.

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  37. James 1:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.

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  38. James 2:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Whoever keeps the whole law but stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it.

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  39. 1 Peter 1:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    and into an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, reserved in heaven for you,

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  40. 2 Peter 2:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them deep into hell, placing them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment;

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  41. 2 Peter 2:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    if all this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to hold the unrighteous for punishment on the day of judgment.

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  42. 2 Peter 2:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    These men are springs without water and mists driven by a storm. Blackest darkness is reserved for them.

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  43. 2 Peter 3:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And by that same word, the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

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  44. 1 John 2:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    By this we can be sure that we have come to know Him: if we keep His commandments.

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  45. 1 John 2:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    If anyone says, “I know Him,” but does not keep His commandments, he is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

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  46. 1 John 2:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But if anyone keeps His word, the love of God has been truly perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him:

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  47. 1 John 3:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    and we will receive from Him whatever we ask, because we keep His commandments and do what is pleasing in His sight.

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  48. 1 John 3:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Whoever keeps His commandments remains in God, and God in him. And by this we know that He remains in us: by the Spirit He has given us.

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  49. 1 John 5:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome,

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  50. 1 John 5:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    We know that anyone born of God does not keep on sinning; the One who was born of God protects him, and the evil one cannot touch him.

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