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Maintain [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To hold, preserve or keep in any particular state or condition; to support; to sustain; not to suffer to fail or decline; as, to maintain a certain degree of heat in a furnace; to maintain the digestive process or powers of the stomach; to maintain the fertility of soil; to maintain present character or reputation.

2. To hold; to keep; not to lose or surrender; as, to maintain a place or post.

3. To continue; not to suffer to cease; as, to maintain a conversation.

4. To keep up; to uphold; to support the expense of; as, to maintain state or equipage.

5. What maintains one vice would bring up two children.

6. To support with food, clothing and other conveniences; as, to maintain a family by trade or labor.

7. To support by intellectual powers, or by force of reason; as, to maintain an argument.

8. To support; to defend; to vindicate; to justify; to prove to be just; as, to maintain one's right or cause.

9. To support by assertion or argument; to affirm.

10. In tragedy and satire, I maintain that this age and the last have excelled the ancients.

Maintain [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To hold or keep in any particular state or condition; to support; to sustain; to uphold; to keep up; not to suffer to fail or decline; as, to maintain a certain degree of heat in a furnace; to maintain a fence or a railroad; to maintain the digestive process or powers of the stomach; to maintain the fertility of soil; to maintain present reputation.

2. To keep possession of; to hold and defend; not to surrender or relinquish.

3. To continue; not to suffer to cease or fail.

4. To bear the expense of; to support; to keep up; to supply with what is needed.

5. To affirm; to support or defend by argument.

Maintainable [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. That may be maintained, supported, preserved or sustained.

2. That may be defended or kept by force or resistance; as, a military post is not maintainable

3. That may be defended by argument or just claim; vindicable; defensible.

Maintainable [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

That maybe maintained.

Maintained [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Kept in any state; preserved; upheld; supported; defended; vindicated.

Maintained [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Maintain

Maintainer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

One who supports, preserves, sustains or vindicates.

Maintainer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who maintains.

Maintaining [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Supporting; preserving; upholding; defending; vindicating.

Maintaining [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Maintain

Maintainor [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who, not being interested, maintains a cause depending between others, by furnishing money, etc., to either party.

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16 KJV and 20 BSB verses contain “Maintain” — showing the first 20. Show all 36 verses (searchable)

Exodus 34:7

Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.

maintaining loving devotion to a thousand generations, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin. Yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished; He will visit the iniquity of the fathers on their children and grandchildren to the third and fourth generations.”

Leviticus 19:36

Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.

You shall maintain honest scales and weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 25:9

Then shall his brother’s wife come unto him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face, and shall answer and say, So shall it be done unto that man that will not build up his brother’s house.

his brother’s widow shall go up to him in the presence of the elders, remove his sandal, spit in his face, and declare, “This is what is done to the man who will not maintain his brother’s line.”

Deuteronomy 25:15

But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

You must maintain accurate and honest weights and measures, so that you may live long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

Deuteronomy 33:9

Who said unto his father and to his mother, I have not seen him; neither did he acknowledge his brethren, nor knew his own children: for they have observed thy word, and kept thy covenant.

He said of his father and mother, ‘I do not consider them.’ He disregarded his brothers and did not know his own sons, for he kept Your word and maintained Your covenant.

1 Kings 3:6

And Solomon said, Thou hast shewed unto thy servant David my father great mercy, according as he walked before thee in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with thee; and thou hast kept for him this great kindness, that thou hast given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.

Solomon replied, “You have shown much loving devotion to Your servant, my father David, because he walked before You in faithfulness, righteousness, and uprightness of heart. And You have maintained this loving devotion by giving him a son to sit on his throne this very day.

1 Kings 8:45

Then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.

then may You hear from heaven their prayer and their plea, and may You uphold their cause.

1 Kings 8:49

Then hear thou their prayer and their supplication in heaven thy dwelling place, and maintain their cause,

then may You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place, their prayer and petition, and may You uphold their cause.

1 Kings 8:59

And let these my words, wherewith I have made supplication before the LORD, be nigh unto the LORD our God day and night, that he maintain the cause of his servant, and the cause of his people Israel at all times, as the matter shall require:

And may these words with which I have made my petition before the LORD be near to the LORD our God day and night, so that He may uphold the cause of His servant and of His people Israel as each day requires,

2 Kings 8:19

Yet the LORD would not destroy Judah for David his servant’s sake, as he promised him to give him alway a light, and to his children.

Yet for the sake of His servant David, the LORD was unwilling to destroy Judah, since He had promised to maintain a lamp for David and his descendants forever.

1 Chronicles 26:27

Out of the spoils won in battles did they dedicate to maintain the house of the LORD.

They had dedicated some of the plunder from their battles to the repair of the house of the LORD.

2 Chronicles 6:35

Then hear thou from the heavens their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.

then may You hear from heaven their prayer and their plea, and may You uphold their cause.

2 Chronicles 6:39

Then hear thou from the heavens, even from thy dwelling place, their prayer and their supplications, and maintain their cause, and forgive thy people which have sinned against thee.

then may You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place, their prayer and petition, and may You uphold their cause. May You forgive Your people who sinned against You.

2 Chronicles 21:7

Howbeit the LORD would not destroy the house of David, because of the covenant that he had made with David, and as he promised to give a light to him and to his sons for ever.

Yet the LORD was unwilling to destroy the house of David, because of the covenant He had made with David, and since He had promised to maintain a lamp for David and his descendants forever.

Job 13:15

Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.

Though He slay me, I will hope in Him. I will still defend my ways to His face.

Job 27:5

God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me.

I will never say that you are right; I will maintain my integrity until I die.

Psalms 9:4

For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; thou satest in the throne judging right.

For You have upheld my just cause; You sit on Your throne judging righteously.

Psalms 16:5

The LORD is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot.

The LORD is my chosen portion and my cup; You have made my lot secure.

Psalms 140:12

I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor.

I know that the LORD upholds justice for the poor and defends the cause of the needy.

Proverbs 5:2

That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.

that you may maintain discretion and your lips may preserve knowledge.