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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. 1. ( v. t.) To care; to desire. 2. ( v. t.) To hold; to restrain from departure or removal; not to let go of; to retain in one's power or possession; not to lose; to retain; to detain. 3. ( v. t.)
KEEP, verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive kept. [Latin habeo, and capio.] 1. 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. 2. To have in custody for security or preservation.
To keep down, to prevent from rising; not to lift or suffer to be raised. To keep in, to prevent from escape; to hold in confinement. 1. To conceal; not to tell or disclose. 2. To restrain; to curb. To keep off, to hinder from approach or attack; as, to keep off an enemy or an evil.
Keep, Keeping (Noun): denotes "to preserve, keep safe, keep close" ( sun, "together with," used intensively, and No. 1), in Luk 2:19, as in Luk 2:51 (see No. 2, above), of the mother of Jesus in regard to the words of the shepherds; in Mar 6:20 it is used of Herod's preservation of John the Baptist from Herodias, RV, "kept (him) safe," AV, ...
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Keep - Webster-1913. (1): (v. t.) To hold; to restrain from departure or removal; not to let go of; to retain in one's power or possession; not to lose; to retain; to detain. (2): (v. t.) To cause to remain in a given situation or condition; to maintain unchanged; to hold or preserve in any state or tenor. (3):
To keep Christs word, in short, is to take Christ at His wordto believe in Him (cf. Joh 8:51-52; Joh 14:23-24; Joh 15:20; Joh 17:6). The word of Christ is the word of the Father (Joh 14:24, Joh 17:6), and it is the word which the disciples are to proclaim (Joh 15:20).
