Words

שָׁמַר H8104

Home gloss

keep

Instead of (KJV / RSV)

keep

Note

Guard, watch, observe: the cherubim "keep the way of the tree of life" (3:24); the charge of the tent (Num 3:7–8; 18:5); "keep the sabbath" (Exod 31:16; Deut 5:12); "Am I my brother's keeper?" (4:9). One gloss carries the chain

Rulings

37

Occurrences (3)

Genesis 2

• 2:15 And Elohim took the human and settled him in the garden of Eden, to serve it and to keep it.

Genesis 3

• 3:24 And he drove out the man; and he made tent on the east of the garden of Eden the cherubim and the blaze of the sword that turns itself about, to keep the way of the tree of life.

Genesis 4

• 4:9 And said to Cain, "Where is Abel your brother?" And he said, "I do not know. Am I my brother's keeper?"