<OL TYPE="1"><LI>to guard, protect by a military guard, either to prevent hostile invasion, or to keep the inhabitants of a besieged city from flight<LI>metaph.<OL TYPE="a"><LI>under the control of the Mosaic law, that he might not escape from its power<LI>to protect by guarding, to keep<LI>by watching and guarding to preserve one for the attainment of something</OL></OL>