Definition

to be a watcher in advance, i.e. to mount guard as a sentinel (post spies at gates); figuratively, to hem in, protect

Etymology

from a compound of G4253 (πρό) and G3708 (ὁράω);

Where the KJV renders it

• keep (with a garrison)

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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