שָׁקַד shaqad
Hebrew word for “to watch” · Strong’s H8245 · used 12 times in 11 verses
Meaning
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)
How it is translated
Glosses given for shaqad in context, with how often each is used:
- watching 2
- kept watch 2
- watch 1
- someone will keep watch 1
- wakeful 1
- has kept awake 1
- keeping watch 1
- those who lie in wait 1
- will be watching 1
- will keep watch 1
Where it is used
Chapters where it is used most
Ezra 8 (1), Job 21 (1), Psalms 102 (1), Psalms 127 (1), Proverbs 8 (1), Isaiah 29 (1), Jeremiah 1 (1), Jeremiah 5 (1), Jeremiah 31 (1), Jeremiah 44 (1)
Forms
- שׁקד 4
- שׁקדתי 2
- שׁקדו 1
- ישׁקוד 1
- לשׁקד 1
- שׁקדי 1
- אשׁקד 1
- וישׁקד 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with shaqad more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- שָׁמַר shamar “to keep” 3
- כָּלָה kalah “to end” 2
- בָּנָה banah “to build” 2
- רַע ra “bad” 2
- כֵּן ken “so” 2
- עִיר ir “city” 2
- שָׁמַע shama “to hear” 2
- עַד ad “till” 2
Key verses
The verses using shaqad that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- Ezra 8:29 — Watch ye, and keep them, until ye weigh them before the chief of the priests and the Levites, and chief of the fathers of Israel, at Jerusalem, in the chambers…
- Job 21:32 — Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.
- Psalms 102:7 — I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.
- Psalms 127:1 — [A Song of degrees for Solomon.] Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in…
- Proverbs 8:34 — Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.
- Isaiah 29:20 — For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off:
- Jeremiah 1:12 — Then said the LORD unto me, Thou hast well seen: for I will hasten my word to perform it.
- Jeremiah 5:6 — Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth…
- Jeremiah 31:28 — And it shall come to pass, that like as I have watched over them, to pluck up, and to break down, and to throw down, and to destroy, and to afflict; so will I…
- Jeremiah 44:27 — Behold, I will watch over them for evil, and not for good: and all the men of Judah that are in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the sword and by the…
- Daniel 9:14 — Therefore hath the LORD watched upon the evil, and brought it upon us: for the LORD our God is righteous in all his works which he doeth: for we obeyed not his…
See all 11 verses in the Word Atlas
Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.