Bible Dictionaries

Webster's Dictionary

Keeping

(1):

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Keep

(2):

(n.) A holding; restraint; custody; guard; charge; care; preservation.

(3):

(n.) Maintenance; support; provision; feed; as, the cattle have good keeping.

(4):

(n.) Conformity; congruity; harmony; consistency; as, these subjects are in keeping with each other.

(5):

(n.) Harmony or correspondence between the different parts of a work of art; as, the foreground of this painting is not in keeping.