Lexicon shaqad: to watch, wake Original Word: שָׁקַדPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: shaqad Phonetic Spelling: (shaw-kad') Short Definition: watching NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origina prim. root Definitionto watch, wake NASB Translationintent on doing (1), keep watch (1), keeps awake (1), kept the in store (1), lie awake (1), watch (2), watched (1), watching (4).
Brown-Driver-Briggs שָׁקַד verb watch, wake (Phoenician שקר be circumspect; Late Hebrew שָׁקַד be insistent; see ᵑ7 שְׁקֵד = Biblical Hebrew); — Qal Perfect3masculine singular ׳שׁ Psalm 127:1, שָׁקַ֫דְתִּי Jeremiah 31:28; Psalm 102:8; Imperfect3masculine singular יִשְׁק֑וֺד Job 21:32 (Me Bu יִשְׁוֹ֑דוּ), וַיִּשְׁקֹד Daniel 9:14, 1singular אֶשְׁקֹד Jeremiah 31:28; Imperative masculine plural שִׁקְדוּ Ezra 8:29; Infinitive construct לִשְׁקֹד Proverbs 8:34; Participle active שֹׁקֵד Jeremiah 1:12 +; plural construct שֹׁקְדֵי Isaiah 29:20; — 1 keep watch of, be wakeful over, ׳י subject, עַל person, to benefit or injure Jeremiah 31:28 (twice in verse); Jeremiah 44:27; עַל thing, to perform it Jeremiah 1:12; Daniel 9:14; so (men subject) שֹׁקְדֵי אָוֶן Isaiah 29:20; of leopard watching לְַעָֿרֵיהֶם Jeremiah 5:6 (to seize prey, figurative); of man watching (for admission) at (עַל) wisdom's doors Proverbs 8:34 ("" שָׁמַר); = keep guard over (עַל) Job 21:32, compare (absolute) וְשִׁמְרוּ ׳שׁ Ezra 8:29 and (of watchman, שֹׁמֵר) Psalm 127:1. 2 be wakeful, wake, as mourner, sufferer Psalm 102:8. — Lamentations 1:14 read perhaps Niph`al Perfect נִשְׁקַד עַלמְּֿשָׁעַי (ᵐ5 Bu) watch has been kept over my transgressions (compare 1 above), for ᵑ0 ׳נִשְׂקַד עֹל פ. — Pu`al denominative see infra.
Strong's hasten, remain, wake, watch for A primitive root; to be alert, i.e. Sleepless; hence to be on the lookout (whether for good or ill) -- hasten, remain, wake, watch (for). |
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