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Lexicon :: Strong's G5083 - tēreō

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τηρέω
Transliteration
tēreō (Key)
Pronunciation
tay-reh'-o
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
From teros (a watch, perhaps akin to θεωρέω (G2334))
mGNT
70x in 40 unique form(s) TR
75x in 40 unique form(s) LXX
25x in 17 unique form(s)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 8:140,1174

Strong’s Definitions

τηρέω tēréō, tay-reh'-o; from τερός terós (a watch; perhaps akin to G2334); to guard (from loss or injury, properly, by keeping the eye upon; and thus differing from G5442, which is properly to prevent escaping; and from G2892, which implies a fortress or full military lines of apparatus), i.e. to note (a prophecy; figuratively, to fulfil a command); by implication, to detain (in custody; figuratively, to maintain); by extension, to withhold (for personal ends; figuratively, to keep unmarried); by extension, to withhold (for personal ends; figuratively, to keep unmarried):—hold fast, keep(- er), (pre-, re-)serve, watch.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 75x

The KJV translates Strong's G5083 in the following manner: keep (57x), reserve (8x), observe (4x), watch (2x), preserve (2x), keeper (1x), hold fast (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 75x
The KJV translates Strong's G5083 in the following manner: keep (57x), reserve (8x), observe (4x), watch (2x), preserve (2x), keeper (1x), hold fast (1x).

  1. to attend to carefully, take care of

    1. to guard

    2. metaph. to keep, one in the state in which he is

    3. to observe

    4. to reserve: to undergo something

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
τηρέω tēréō, tay-reh'-o; from τερός terós (a watch; perhaps akin to G2334); to guard (from loss or injury, properly, by keeping the eye upon; and thus differing from G5442, which is properly to prevent escaping; and from G2892, which implies a fortress or full military lines of apparatus), i.e. to note (a prophecy; figuratively, to fulfil a command); by implication, to detain (in custody; figuratively, to maintain); by extension, to withhold (for personal ends; figuratively, to keep unmarried); by extension, to withhold (for personal ends; figuratively, to keep unmarried):—hold fast, keep(- er), (pre-, re-)serve, watch.
STRONGS G5083:
τηρέω, τηρῶ; imperfect ἐτήρουν; future τηρήσω; 1 aorist ἐτήρησα; perfect τετήρηκα, 3 person plural τετηρήκασιν (John 17:6 R G) and τετήρηκαν (ibid. L T Tr WH (see γίνομαι, at the beginning)); passive, present τηροῦμαι; imperfect ἐτηρουμην; perfect τετήρημαι; 1 aorist ἐτηρήθην; (τηρός, found only once, Aeschylus suppl. 248, where it is doubtful whether it means 'guarding' or 'watching'), from Pindar, Sophocles, Thucydides down; the Sept. several times for שָׁמַר, נָצַר, etc.; to attend to carefully, take care of; i. e.
a. properly, to guard: τινα, a prisoner, Matthew 27:36, 54; Acts 16:23; passive, Acts 12:5; (Acts 24:23); Acts 25:4, 21 (b); τί, Acts 12:6; οἱ τηροῦντες ((R. V.) the watchers) the guards, Matthew 28:4 (Song of Solomon 3:3).
b. metaphorically, to keep: τινα, one in that state in which he is, τήν ἑαυτοῦ παρθένον, his own virgin daughter, namely, as a virgin i. e. unmarried, 1 Corinthians 7:37; ἑαυτόν, himself such as he is, i. e. begotten of God, 1 John 5:18 (but here T Tr WH αὐτόν); with a predicate accusative added: ἁγνόν, 1 Timothy 5:22; ἄσπιλον ἀπό τοῦ κόσμου, James 1:27; ἀβαρῆ τίνι, 2 Corinthians 11:9 (ἁπλουν, Antoninus 6, 30; τινα ἄμεμπτον τῷ Θεῷ, Wis. 10:5); τί with a predicate accusative 1 Timothy 6:14 (but see in c. below); passive, τηροῦμαι, with an adverb, ἀμέμπτως, 1 Thessalonians 5:23; with a dative of the person, Χριστῷ, devoted to Christ (Winer's Grammar, 421 (392)), Jude 1:1; τηρεῖν τινα ἐν τίνι: to keep in i. e. cause one to persevere or stand firm in a thing: ἐν τῷ ὀνόματι Θεοῦ (see p. 447b bottom), John 17:11f; ἐν ἀγάπη Θεοῦ, Jude 1:21; τινα ἐκ τίνος, by guarding to cause one to escape in safety out of etc.: ἐκ τοῦ πονηροῦ, out of the power and assaults of Satan, John 17:15 (cf. Buttmann, 327 (281); Winer's Grammar, 410 (383)); ἐκ τῆς ὥρας τοῦ πειρασμοῦ, Revelation 3:10. to keep: i. e. not to leave, τήν ἀρχήν, Jude 1:6; not to throw away, τά ἱμάτια, Revelation 16:15. to hold firmly: τήν ἑνότητα τοῦ πνεύματος, Ephesians 4:3; anything as a mental deposit, τήν πίστιν, 2 Timothy 4:7; Revelation 14:12 (cf. Winers Grammar, 536 (499); Buttmann, 78 (68)). to show oneself to be actually holding a thing fast, i. e.
c. to observe: namely, πῶς κτλ., Revelation 3:3; τί Matthew 23:3; Acts 21:25 (Rec.); τήν παράδοσιν, Mark 7:9 (WH (rejected) marginal reading στήσητε) (τά ἐκ παραδοσεως τῶν πατέρων, Josephus, Antiquities 13, 10, 6); τόν νόμον, Acts 15:5 and Rec. in Acts 15:24; James 2:10; τό σάββατον, the command respecting sabbath-keeping, John 9:16; τάς ἐντολάς (of either God or Christ), Matthew 19:17; John 14:15, 21; John 15:10; 1 John 2:3; 1 John 3:22, 24; 1 John 5:2 (where L T Tr WH ποιῶμεν); 1 John 5:3; Revelation 12:17; Revelation 14:12 (see above, b. at the end); τήν ἐντολήν, 1 Timothy 6:14 (see in b. above; πάντα ὅσα ἐνετειλάμην, Matthew 28:20); τόν λόγον, either of Christ or of God, John 8:51f, 55; John 14:23; John 15:20; John 17:6; 1 John 2:5; Revelation 3:8; τούς λόγους, of Christ, John 14:24; τόν λόγον τῆς ὑπομονῆς μου (i. e. Ἰησοῦ), Revelation 3:10; τά ἔργα μου, the works that I command, Revelation 2:26; τούς λόγους τῆς προφητείας, Revelation 22:7; τοῦ βιβλίου τούτου, Revelation 22:9; τά ἐν τῇ προφητεία γεγραμμένα, Revelation 1:3; cf. Lipsius, Paulin. Rechtfertigungsl., p. 194f,
d. to reserve: τινα εἰς τί, to undergo something, 2 Peter 2:4 (cf. Winer's Grammar, 342 (321); εἰς τήν τοῦ Σεβαστοῦ διάγνωσιν, Acts 25:21a); Jude 1:6; τινα εἰς ἡμέραν κρίσεως, 2 Peter 2:9; τούς οὐρανούς πυρί; (to be burned with fire) εἰς ἡμέραν κρίσεως, 2 Peter 3:7; τί εἰς τινα, a thing for one's advantage, 1 Peter 1:4; τί εἰς ἡμέραν τινα, to be used some day for some purpose, John 12:7; τί ἕως ἄρτι, John 2:10; τί with the dative of the person, for rewarding or punishing one, passive, 2 Peter 2:17; Jude 1:13. (Compare: διατηρέω, παρατηρέω, συντηρέω.)
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Song of Songs
3:3
Matthew
19:17; 23:3; 27:36; 27:54; 28:4; 28:20
Mark
7:9
John
2:10; 8:51; 8:55; 9:16; 12:7; 14:15; 14:21; 14:23; 14:24; 15:10; 15:20; 17:6; 17:6; 17:11; 17:15
Acts
12:5; 12:6; 15:5; 15:24; 16:23; 21:25; 24:23; 25:4; 25:21; 25:21
1 Corinthians
7:37
2 Corinthians
11:9
Ephesians
4:3
1 Thessalonians
5:23
1 Timothy
5:22; 6:14; 6:14
2 Timothy
4:7
James
1:27; 2:10
1 Peter
1:4
2 Peter
2:4; 2:9; 2:17; 3:7
1 John
2:3; 2:5; 3:22; 3:24; 5:2; 5:3; 5:18
Jude
1:1; 1:6; 1:6; 1:13; 1:21
Revelation
1:3; 2:26; 3:3; 3:8; 3:10; 3:10; 12:17; 14:12; 14:12; 16:15; 22:7; 22:9

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G5083 matches the Greek τηρέω (tēreō),
which occurs 70 times in 64 verses in the MGNT Greek.

Page 1 / 2 (Mat 19:17–1Jo 5:18)

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 19:17 - He said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good but one, that is, God. But if you want to enter into life, keep the mitzvot."

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 23:3 - All things therefore whatever they tell you to observe, observe and do, but don't do their works; for they say, and don't do.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:36 - and they sat and watched him there.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 27:54

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:54 - Now the centurion, and those who were with him watching Yeshua, when they saw the earthquake, and the things that were done, feared exceedingly, saying, "Truly this was the Son of God."

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 28:4 - For fear of him, the guards shook, and became like dead men.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 28:20

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 28:20 - teaching them to observe all things which I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." Amein.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 2:10 - and said to him, "Everyone serves the good wine first, and when the guests have drunk freely, then that which is worse. You have kept the good wine until now!"

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 8:51

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 8:51 - Most assuredly, I tell you, if a person keeps my word, he will never see death."

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 8:52

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 8:52 - Then the Yehudim said to him, "Now we know that you have a demon. Avraham died, and the prophets; and you say, 'If a man keeps my word, he will never taste of death.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 8:55

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 8:55 - You have not known him, but I know him. If I said, 'I don't know him,' I would be like you, a liar. But I know him, and keep his word.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 9:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 9:16 - Some therefore of the Perushim said, "This man is not from God, because he doesn't keep the Shabbat." Others said, "How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?" There was division among them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 12:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 12:7 - But Yeshua said, "Leave her alone. She has kept this for the day of my burial.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 14:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 14:15 - If you love me, keep my mitzvot.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 14:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 14:21 - One who has my mitzvot, and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him."

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 14:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 14:23 - Yeshua answered him, "If a man 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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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 14:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 14:24 - He who doesn't love me doesn't keep my words. The word which you hear isn't mine, but the Father's who sent me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 15:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 15:10 - If you keep my mitzvot, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father's mitzvot, and remain in his love.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 15:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 15:20 - Remember the word that I said to you: 'A servant is not greater than his lord.' If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will keep yours also.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 17:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 17:6 - I revealed your name to the people whom you have given me out of the world. They were yours, and you have given them to me. They have kept your word.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 17:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 17:11 - I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them through your name which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 17:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 17:12 - While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name. Those whom you have given me I have kept. None of them is lost, except the son of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 17:15 - I pray not that you would take them from the world, but that you would keep them from the evil one.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 12:5 - Rock therefore was kept in the prison, but constant prayer was made by the assembly to God for him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 12:6 - The same night when Herod was about to bring him out, Rock was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains. Guards in front of the door kept the prison.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 15:5 - But some of the sect of the Perushim who believed rose up, saying, "It is necessary to circumcise them, and to charge them to keep the law of Moshe."

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 16:23 - When they had laid many stripes on them, they threw them into prison, charging the jailer to keep them safely,

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 24:23 - He ordered the centurion that Sha'ul should be kept in custody, and should have some privileges, and not to forbid any of his friends to serve him or to visit him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 25:4 - However Festus answered that Sha'ul should be kept in custody at Caesarea, and that he himself was about to depart shortly.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 25:21 - But when Sha'ul had appealed to be kept for the decision of the emperor, I commanded him to be kept until I could send him to Caesar."

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 7:37 - But he who stands steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, but has power over his own heart, to keep his own virgin, does well.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 11:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 11:9 - When I was present with you and was in need, I wasn't a burden on anyone, for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my need. In everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and I will continue to do so.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 4:3 - being eager to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of shalom.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 5:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 5:23 - May the God of shalom himself sanctify you completely. May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ti 5:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Ti 5:22 - Lay hands hastily on no one, neither be a participant in other men's sins. Keep yourself pure.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ti 6:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Ti 6:14 - that you keep the mitzvah without spot, blameless, until the appearing of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ti 4:7 - I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jas 1:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJas 1:27 - Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 2:10 - For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he has become guilty of all.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 1:4 - to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that doesn't fade away, reserved in heaven for you,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Pe 2:4 - For if God didn't spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved to judgment;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Pe 2:9 - the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Pe 2:17 - These are wells without water, clouds driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Pe 3:7 - But the heavens that now are, and the eretz, by the same word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 2:3 - This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his mitzvot.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 2:4 - One who says, "I know him," and doesn't keep his mitzvot, is a liar, and the truth isn't in him.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 2:5 - But whoever keeps his word, God's love has most assuredly been perfected in him. This is how we know that we are in him:

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Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 3:22 - and whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his mitzvot and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Jo 3:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 3:24 - He who keeps his mitzvot remains in him, and he in him. By this we know that he remains in us, by the Spirit which he gave us.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 5:3 - For this is the love of God, that we keep his mitzvot. His mitzvot are not grievous.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 5:18 - We know that whoever is born of God doesn't sin, but he who was born of God keeps himself, and the evil one doesn't touch him.

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