Jonah 2:8

Derivation: a primitive root;

properly, to hedge about (as with thorns), i.e. guard; generally, to protect, attend to, etc.

KJV: beward, be circumspect, take heed (to self), keep(-er, self), mark, look narrowly, observe, preserve, regard, reserve, save (self), sure, (that lay) wait (for), watch(-man).

שָׁמַר 465 vb. keep, watch, preserve

Qal 425

1.

a. keep, have charge of

b. keep, guard, captives

c. hence, watch for, wait for

d. watch, observe

2.

a. keep, retain, of storing up (food)

b. keep within bounds, restrain

3.

a. observe, celebrate

b. keep sabbath

c. of other obligations

d. observe = follow dictates of (prudence, justice, kindness, wisdom)

4. sts. י׳ subj.

5. keep, reserve, weeks of harvest

Niph. 36

1. be on one's guard

2. keep oneself, refrain, abstain

3. be kept, guarded

Pi. those paying regard to false vanities

Hithp. I kept myself from

Derivation: or (rarely in the abs.) הֲבֵל; from 1891;

emptiness or vanity; figuratively, something transitory and unsatisfactory; often used as an adverb

KJV: × altogether, vain, vanity.

הֶ֫בֶל 73 n.m. vapour, breath

Derivation: or שַׁו; from the same as 7722 in the sense of desolating;

evil (as destructive), literally (ruin) or morally (especially guile); figuratively idolatry (as false, subjective), uselessness (as deceptive, objective; also adverbially, in vain)

KJV: false(-ly), lie, lying, vain, vanity.

שָׁוְא n.[m.] emptiness, vanity

Derivation: from 2616;

kindness; by implication (towards God) piety; rarely (by opposition) reproof, or (subject.) beauty

KJV: favour, good deed(-liness, -ness), kindly, (loving-) kindness, merciful (kindness), mercy, pity, reproach, wicked thing.

חֶ֫סֶד n.m. shame, reproach

חֶ֫סֶד 247 n.m. goodness, kindness

I. of man:

1. kindness of men toward men, in doing favours and benefits

2. kindness (especially as extended to the lowly, needy and miserable), mercy

3. (rarely) affection of Isr. to י׳, love to God, piety

4. lovely appearance

II. of God: kindness, lovingkindness in condescending to the needs of his creatures.

Derivation: a primitive root;

to loosen, i.e. relinquish, permit, etc.

KJV: commit self, fail, forsake, fortify, help, leave (destitute, off), refuse, × surely.

[עָזַב] vb. restore, repair (?);—Qal Ne 3:8

עָזַב 213 vb. leave, forsake, loose

Qal

1. leave, c. acc.

2. leave, abandon, forsake

3. let loose, set free, let go

Niph.

1. be left to

2. be forsaken, of house of God

Pu. (or Qal pass.) be deserted, of city