1. שָׁמַר
keep, watch, preserve
The corpus record — Hebrew
וּלְשָׁמְרָֽהּ
shamar · vb
keep, watch, preserve
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Distribution
- Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) 469 · 15.29/10k
Senses
2. שָׁמַר
properly, to hedge about (as with thorns), i.e. guard; generally, to protect, attend to, etc.
Attestations
- וּ/לְ/שָׁמְרָֽ/הּ Genesis 2:15 (BHS)
- לִ/שְׁמֹ֕ר Genesis 3:24 (BHS)
- הֲ/שֹׁמֵ֥ר Genesis 4:9 (BHS)
- תִשְׁמֹ֑ר Genesis 17:9 (BHS)
- תִּשְׁמְר֗וּ Genesis 17:10 (BHS)
- וְ/שָֽׁמְרוּ֙ Genesis 18:19 (BHS)
6 of 469 attestations shown.
Deep etymology
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Hebrew text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology and lemmatization from the OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible (OSHB), CC BY 4.0. Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) lexicon, public domain.