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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G5083 — τηρέω
tēreō · to keep: observe · Greek
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Matthew 19:17 · τήρησονAnd he said to him, ‘Why me dost thou call good? no one is good except One—God; but if thou dost will to enter into the life, keep the commands.’Matthew 23:3 · τηρεῖτε.all, then, as much as they may say to you to observe, observe and do, but according to their works do not, for they say, and do not;Matthew 27:36 · ἐτήρουνand sitting down, they were watching him there,Matthew 27:54 · τηροῦντεςAnd the centurion, and those with him watching Jesus, having seen the earthquake, and the things that were done, were exceedingly afraid, saying, ‘Truly this was God’s Son.’Matthew 28:4 · τηροῦντεςand from the fear of him did the keepers shake, and they became as dead men.Matthew 28:20 · τηρεῖνteaching them to observe all, whatever I did command you,) and lo, I am with you all the days—till the full end of the age.’John 2:10 · τετήρηκαςand saith to him, ‘Every man, at first, the good wine doth set forth; and when they may have drunk freely, then the inferior; thou didst keep the good wine till now.’John 8:51 · τηρήσῃ,verily, verily, I say to you, If any one may keep my word, death he may not see—to the age.’John 8:52 · τηρήσῃ,The Jews, therefore, said to him, ‘Now we have known that thou hast a demon; Abraham did die, and the prophets, and thou dost say, If any one may keep my word, he shall not taste of death—to the age!John 8:55 · τηρῶ.¶and ye have not known Him, and I have known Him, and if I say that I have not known Him, I shall be like you—speaking falsely; but I have known Him, and His word I keep;John 9:16 · τηρεῖ.Of the Pharisees, therefore, certain said, ‘This man is not from God, because the sabbath he doth not keep;’ others said, ‘How is a man—a sinful one—able to do such signs?’ and there was a division among them.John 12:7 · τηρήσῃJesus, therefore, said, ‘Suffer her; for the day of my embalming she hath kept it,John 14:15 · τηρήσετε.‘If ye love me, my commands keep,John 14:21 · τηρῶνhe who is having my commands, and is keeping them, that one it is who is loving me, and he who is loving me shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.’John 14:23 · τηρήσει,Jesus answered and said to him, ‘If any one may love me, my word he will keep, and my Father will love him, and unto him we will come, and abode with him we will make;John 14:24 · τηρεῖ·he who is not loving me, my words doth not keep; and the word that ye hear is not mine, but the Father’s who sent me.John 15:10 · τηρήσητε, · τετήρηκα,if my commandments ye may keep, ye shall remain in my love, according as I the commands of my Father have kept, and do remain in His love;John 15:20 · ἐτήρησαν · τηρήσουσιν.‘Remember the word that I said to you, A servant is not greater than his lord; if me they did persecute, you also they will persecute; if my word they did keep, yours also they will keep;John 17:6 · τετήρηκαν.I did manifest Thy name to the men whom Thou hast given to me out of the world; Thine they were, and to me Thou hast given them, and Thy word they have kept;John 17:11 · τήρησονand no more am I in the world, and these are in the world, and I come unto Thee. Holy Father, keep them in Thy name, whom Thou hast given to me, that they may be one as we;John 17:12 · ἐτήρουνwhen I was with them in the world, I was keeping them in Thy name; those whom Thou hast given to me I did guard, and none of them was destroyed, except the son of the destruction, that the Writing may be fulfilled.John 17:15 · τηρήσῃςI do not ask that Thou mayest take them out of the world, but that Thou mayest keep them out of the evil.Acts 12:5 · ἐτηρεῖτοPeter, therefore, indeed, was kept in the prison, and fervent prayer was being made by the assembly unto God for him,Acts 12:6 · ἐτήρουνand when Herod was about to bring him forth, the same night was Peter sleeping between two soldiers, having been bound with two chains, guards also before the door were keeping the prison,Acts 15:5 · τηρεῖνand there rose up certain of those of the sect of the Pharisees who believed, saying—‘It behoveth to circumcise them, to command them also to keep the law of Moses.’Acts 16:23 · τηρεῖνmany blows also having laid upon them, they cast them to prison, having given charge to the jailor to keep them safely,Acts 24:23 · τηρεῖσθαιhaving given also a direction to the centurion to keep Paul, to let him also have liberty, and to forbid none of his own friends to minister or to come near to him.Acts 25:4 · τηρεῖσθαιThen, indeed, Festus answered that Paul is kept in Caesarea, and himself is about speedily to go on thither,Acts 25:21 · τηρηθῆναι · τηρεῖσθαιbut Paul having appealed to be kept to the hearing of Sebastus, I did command him to be kept till I might send him unto Caesar.’1 Corinthians 7:37 · τηρεῖνAnd he who hath stood stedfast in the heart—not having necessity—and hath authority over his own will, and this he hath determined in his heart—to keep his own virgin—doth well;2 Corinthians 11:9 · ἐτήρησα · τηρήσω.and being present with you, and having been in want, I was chargeable to no one, for my lack did the brethren supply—having come from Macedonia—and in everything burdenless to you I did keep myself, and will keep.Ephesians 4:3 · τηρεῖνbeing diligent to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of the peace;1 Thessalonians 5:23 · τηρηθείη.and the God of the peace Himself sanctify you wholly, and may your whole spirit, and soul, and body, be preserved unblameably in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ;1 Timothy 5:22 · τήρει.Be laying hands quickly on no one, nor be having fellowship with sins of others; be keeping thyself pure;1 Timothy 6:14 · τηρῆσαίthat thou keep the command unspotted, unblameable, till the manifestation of our Lord Jesus Christ,2 Timothy 4:7 · τετήρηκα·the good strife I have striven, the course I have finished, the faith I have kept,James 1:27 · τηρεῖνreligion pure and undefiled with the God and Father is this, to look after orphans and widows in their tribulation—unspotted to keep himself from the world.James 2:10 · τηρήσῃ,for whoever the whole law shall keep, and shall stumble in one point, he hath become guilty of all;1 Peter 1:4 · τετηρημένηνto an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and unfading, reserved in the heavens for you,2 Peter 2:4 · τηρουμένους,For if God messengers who sinned did not spare, but with chains of thick gloom, having cast them down to Tartarus, did deliver them to judgment, having been reserved,2 Peter 2:9 · τηρεῖν,The Lord hath known to rescue pious ones out of temptation, and unrighteous ones to a day of judgment, being punished, to keep,2 Peter 2:17 · τετήρηται.¶These are wells without water, and clouds by a tempest driven, to whom the thick gloom of the darkness to the age hath been kept;2 Peter 3:7 · τηρούμενοιand the present heavens and the earth, by the same word are treasured, for fire being kept to a day of judgment and destruction of the impious men.1 John 2:3 · τηρῶμεν.¶and in this we know that we have known him, if his commands we may keep;1 John 2:4 · τηρῶν,he who is saying, ‘I have known him,’ and his command is not keeping, a liar he is, and in him the truth is not;1 John 2:5 · τηρῇand whoever may keep his word, truly in him the love of God hath been perfected; in this we know that in him we are.1 John 3:22 · τηροῦμενand whatever we may ask, we receive from Him, because His commands we keep, and the things pleasing before Him we do,1 John 3:24 · τηρῶνand he who is keeping His commands, in Him he doth remain, and He in him; and in this we know that He doth remain in us, from the Spirit that He gave us.1 John 5:3 · τηρῶμεν·for this is the love of God, that His commands we may keep, and His commands are not burdensome;1 John 5:18 · τηρεῖWe have known that every one who hath been begotten of God doth not sin, but he who was begotten of God doth keep himself, and the evil one doth not touch him;Jude 1:1 · τετηρημένοιςJudas, of Jesus Christ a servant, and brother of James, to those sanctified in God the Father, and in Jesus Christ kept—called,Jude 1:6 · τηρήσαντας · τετήρηκεν·messengers also, those who did not keep their own principality, but did leave their proper dwelling, to a judgment of a great day, in bonds everlasting, under darkness He hath kept,Jude 1:13 · τετήρηται.wild waves of a sea, foaming out their own shames; stars going astray, to whom the gloom of the darkness to the age hath been kept.Jude 1:21 · τηρήσατε,yourselves in the love of God keep ye, waiting for the kindness of our Lord Jesus Christ—to life age-during;Revelation 1:3 · τηροῦντεςHappy is he who is reading, and those hearing, the words of the prophecy, and keeping the things written in it—for the time is nigh!Revelation 2:26 · τηρῶνand he who is overcoming, and who is keeping unto the end my works, I will give to him authority over the nations,Revelation 3:3 · τήρει‘Remember, then, how thou hast received, and heard, and be keeping, and reform: if, then, thou mayest not watch, I will come upon thee as a thief, and thou mayest not know what hour I will come upon thee.Revelation 3:8 · ἐτήρησάςI have known thy works; lo, I have set before thee a door—opened, and no one is able to shut it, because thou hast a little power, and didst keep my word, and didst not deny my name;Revelation 3:10 · ἐτήρησας · τηρήσω‘Because thou didst keep the word of my endurance, I also will keep thee from the hour of the trial that is about to come upon all the world, to try those dwelling upon the earth.Revelation 12:17 · τηρούντωνand the dragon was angry against the woman, and went away to make war with the rest of her seed, those keeping the commands of God, and having the testimony of Jesus Christ.Revelation 14:12 · τηροῦντεςHere is endurance of the saints: here are those keeping the commands of God, and the faith of Jesus.’Revelation 16:15 · τηρῶνlo, I do come as a thief; happy is he who is watching, and keeping his garments, that he may not walk naked, and they may see his unseemliness,’—Revelation 22:7 · τηρῶνLo, I come quickly; happy is he who is keeping the words of the prophecy of this scroll.’Revelation 22:9 · τηρούντωνand he saith to me, ‘See—not; for fellow-servant of thee am I, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of those keeping the words of this scroll; before God bow.’