Keep



(Rev 3:10 KJV)
 Because thou hast kept the word of my patience,
 I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation,
 which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.



keep 5083. tereo, tay-reh'-o; from  teros (a watch; perh. akin to G2334); to guard (from loss or injury, prop. by keeping the eye upon;

and thus differing from G5442, which is prop. to prevent escaping; and from G2892, which implies a fortress or full military lines of apparatus), i.e. to note (a prophecy; fig. to fulfil a command); by impl. to detain (in custody; fig. to maintain); by extens. to withhold (for personal ends; fig. to keep unmarried):--hold fast, keep (-er), (ob-, pre-, re) serve, watch.


IS = a watch,
        to guard (from loss or injury, by keeping the eye upon;

IS NOT= to prevent escaping
                a fortress or full military lines of apparatus
                to detain (in custody; fig. to maintain)
                to withhold (for personal ends; fig. to keep unmarried)


(Mat 27:54 KJV) 
Now when the centurion, and they that were with him, watching Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those things that were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God.

(John 17::15 KJV) 
I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.

(1 Thessalonians  5:23 KJV)
And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.



Other words for keep
(1 Pet 1:5 KJV) 
Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

5432. phroureo, froo-reh'-o; from a comp. of G4253 and G3708; to be a watcher in advance, i.e. to mount guard as a sentinel (post spies at gates); fig. to hem in, protect:--keep (with a garrison). Comp. G5083.

nosphizomai
nos-fid'-som-ahee
Middle voice from  nosphi (apart or clandestinely); to sequestrate
for oneself, that is, embezzle:—keep back, purloin.

                  sequestrrate=  to remove




The word is
temptation G3986  peirasmos   pi-ras-mos'        From G3985; a putting to proof (by experiment [of good], experience [of evil], solicitation, discipline or provocation); by implication adversity:—temptation, X try.


a putting to proof
by implication adversity


(Psalm 95:8  KJV)
Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:

(Matthew 26:41  KJV)
Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

(1 Corinthians 10:13  KJV)
There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

(James 1:12  KJV)
Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.




The word is not
tribulation
G2347    thlipsis     thlip'-sis     From G2346; pressure (literally or figuratively):—afflicted, (-tion), anguish, burdened, persecution, tribulation, trouble.


pressure (literally or figuratively)




(Deuteronomy 4:30  KJV)
When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to the LORD thy God, and shalt be obedient unto his voice;

(Matthew 13:21  KJV)
Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended.

(1 Thessalonians 3:4  KJV)
For verily, when we were with you, we told you before that we should suffer tribulation; even as it came to pass, and ye know.

(Romans 5:3  KJV)
And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;

(Matthew 24:21  KJV)
For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.

(Matthew 24:29-31  KJV)
Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.