- Original: τηρέω - Transliteration: Tereo - Phonetic: tay-reh'-o - Definition: 1. to attend to carefully, take care of a. to guard b. metaph. to keep, one in the state in which he is c. to observe d. to reserve: to undergo something - Origin: from teros (a watch, perhaps akin to G2334 ) - TDNT entry: 10:20,1 - Part(s) of speech: Verb - Strong's: From τηρός teros (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) that is 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): - hold fast keep (-er) (ob- pre- re) serve watch. Total KJV Occurrences: 49 • keep, 21 Joh 8:52; Act 15:5; Act 15:24; Act 16:23; Act 24:23; 1 Corinthians 7:37; 2 Corinthians 11:9; Eph 4:3; 1 Timothy 5:22; 1 Timothy 6:14; Jam 1:27; Jam 2:10; 1 John 2:3; 1 John 3:22; 1 John 5:2; 1 John 5:3; Jude 1:21; Revelation 1:3; Revelation 12:17; Revelation 14:12; Revelation 22:9 • keepers, 1 Mat 28:4 • keepeth, 6 Joh 9:16; 1 John 2:4; 1 John 2:5; 1 John 3:24; 1 John 5:18; Revelation 22:7 • kept, 8 Joh 2:10; Act 12:5; Act 12:6; Act 25:4; Act 25:21; 2 Corinthians 11:9; 2 Timothy 4:7; Jude 1:6 • observe, 1 Act 21:25 • preserved, 2 1 Thessalonians 5:23; Jude 1:1 • reserve, 1 2 Peter 2:9 • reserved, 7 Act 25:21; 1 Peter 1:4; 2 Peter 2:4; 2 Peter 2:17; 2 Peter 3:7; Jude 1:6; Jude 1:13 • watched, 1 Mat 27:36 • watching, 1 Mat 27:54