Quick Definition
to watch
Strong's Definition
to be alert, i.e. sleepless; hence to be on the lookout (whether for good or ill)
Derivation: a primitive root;
KJV Usage: hasten, remain, wake, watch (for).
TWOT Reference: 2451
Outline of Biblical Usage
1) to wake, watch, awake, be alert
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to keep watch of, be wakeful over
1a2) to be wakeful, wake (as mourner or sufferer)
Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents
This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
שָׁקַד (sha.qad) — to watch. 1) to wake, watch, awake, be alert 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to keep watch of, be wakeful over 1a2) to be wakeful, wake (as mourner or sufferer)
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
שָׁקַד vb. watch, wake Qal keep watch of, be wakeful over
be wakeful, wake, as mourner, sufferer
Niph. watch has been kept over my transgressions
Pu. denom. v. infra.
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