Strong G54423 sensesφυλάσσω

The 3 senses of Strong G5442

The lexicon tells 3 senses apart under this number. In the Bible, each word leads to the one it has in its verse. Strong G5442 appears in 30 verses of the KJV, all senses together.

1. to keep/guard: protectG5442I14 verses · 9 books
2. to keep/guard: observeG5442G9 verses · 7 books
3. to keep/guard: guardG5442H5 verses · Luke, Acts

General definition

In the Bible

Translated in the KJV by

• keep22
• beware2
• observe2
• have1
• keepest1
• keepeth1
• of1
• save1
• ware1

First verses

1. Matthew 19:20
   The young man saith unto him, All these things have I kept from my youth up: what lack I yet?
2. Mark 10:20
   And he answered and said unto him, Master, all these have I observed from my youth.
3. Luke 2:8
   And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.
4. Luke 8:29
   (For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For oftentimes it had caught him: and he was kept bound with chains and in fetters; and he brake the bands, and was driven of the devil into the wilderness.)
5. Luke 11:21
   When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace:
6. Luke 11:28
   But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.
7. Luke 12:15
   And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.
8. Luke 18:21
   And he said, All these have I kept from my youth up.
9. John 12:25
   He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.
10. John 17:12
    While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.
11. Acts 7:53
    Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.
12. Acts 12:4
    And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people.
13. Acts 16:4
    And as they went through the cities, they delivered them the decrees for to keep, that were ordained of the apostles and elders which were at Jerusalem.
14. Acts 21:24
    Them take, and purify thyself with them, and be at charges with them, that they may shave their heads: and all may know that those things, whereof they were informed concerning thee, are nothing; but that thou thyself also walkest orderly, and keepest the law.
15. Acts 21:25
    As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication.
16. Acts 22:20
    And when the blood of thy martyr Stephen was shed, I also was standing by, and consenting unto his death, and kept the raiment of them that slew him.
17. Acts 23:35
    I will hear thee, said he, when thine accusers are also come. And he commanded him to be kept in Herod’s judgment hall.
18. Acts 28:16
    And when we came to Rome, the centurion delivered the prisoners to the captain of the guard: but Paul was suffered to dwell by himself with a soldier that kept him.
19. Romans 2:26
    Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?
20. Galatians 6:13
    For neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law; but desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.