natar (to keep) · Rightly

Meaning

To keep, keep guard, reserve, maintain(Qal)

How it's translated

to keep 2
you will keep 1
he will keep 1
keeps 1
i have kept 1
will he maintain 1
i will maintain 1
and maintaining 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Song of Solomon 3
Jeremiah 2
Leviticus 1
Psalms 1
Nahum 1

5 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture

Psalms 103:9He will not always chide: neither will he keep his anger for ever.
Song of Solomon 1:6Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me: my mother’s children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept.
Song of Solomon 8:11Solomon had a vineyard at Baalhamon; he let out the vineyard unto keepers; every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand pieces of silver.
Song of Solomon 8:12My vineyard, which is mine, is before me: thou, O Solomon, must have a thousand, and those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred.
Jeremiah 3:5Will he reserve his anger for ever? will he keep it to the end? Behold, thou hast spoken and done evil things as thou couldest.
Jeremiah 3:12Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the LORD; and I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you: for I am merciful, saith the LORD, and I will not keep anger for ever.

All 8 verses, by book

Leviticus 1: 19:18
Psalms 1: 103:9
Song of Solomon 3: 1:6 8:11 8:12
Jeremiah 2: 3:5 3:12
Nahum 1: 1:2

Hebrew dictionary

נָטַר natar · to keep

1) to keep, keep guard, reserve, maintain 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to keep, maintain 1a2) to keep, guard Aramaic equivalent: ne.tar (נְטַר "to keep" H5202)

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “keep” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

KEEP, verb transitive

preterit tense and participle passive kept. [Latin habeo, and capio.]

To hold; to retain in one's power or possession; not to lose or part with; as, to keep a house or a farm; to keep any thing in the memory, mind or heart.
To have in custody for security or preservation.
To preserve; to retain.
To preserve from falling or from danger; to protect; to guard or sustain.“And behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee” Genesis 28:15

All definitions and other forms of “keep”

To hold or restrain from departure; to detain.
To tend; to have the care of.“And the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden, to dress it and to keep it” Genesis 2:15
To tend; to feed; to pasture; as, to keep a flock of sheep or a herd of cattle in a yard or in a field.
To preserve in any tenor or state. keep a stiff rein.
To regard; to attend to.
To hold in any state; as, to keep in order.
To continue any state, course or action; as, to keep silence; to keep the same road or the same pace; to keep reading or talking; to keep a given distance.
To practice; to do or perform; to obey; to observe in practice; not to neglect or violate; as, to keep the laws, statutes or commandments of God.
To fulfill; to perform; as, to keep one's word, promise or covenant.
To practice; to use habitually; as, to keep bad hours.
To copy carefully.
To observe or solemnize.
To board; to maintain; to supply with necessaries of life.
To have in the house; to entertain; as, to keep lodgers.
To maintain; not to intermit; as, to keep watch or guard.
To hold in one's own bosom; to confine to one's own knowledge; not to disclose or communicate to others; not to betray; as, to keep a secret; to keep one's own counsel.
To have in pay; as, to keep a servant.“I will keep nothing back from you” Jeremiah 42:4
To restrain;; to prevent from advancing.“KEEP back thy servant also from presumptuous sins” Psalms 19:13
To reserve; to withhold; not to deliver. Acts 5:3
To conceal; not to tell or disclose.
To restrain; to curb.
To maintain; to continue; to hinder from ceasing.
To remain in the house; to be confined.

KEEP, verb intransitive

To remain in any state; as, to keep at a distance; to keep aloft; to keep near; to keep in the house; to keep before or behind; to keep in favor; to keep out of company, or out of reach.

To last; to endure; not to perish or be impaired.
To lodge; to dwell; to reside for a time.

KEEP, noun

Custody; guard. [Little used.]

Colloquially, case; condition; as in good keep
Guardianship; restraint. [Little used.]
A place of confinement; in old castles, the dungeon.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.