Limitless Word
שָׁקַדshâqad/shaw-kad'/
HebrewH824512 occurrences (KJV)

to be alert, i.e. sleepless; hence to be on the lookout (whether for good or ill)

KJV renders it: hasten, remain, wake, watch (for).

Where it appears(showing the first 11 of 12)

  • Ezra 8:29Watch and keep them, until you weigh them before the chiefs of the priests and the Levites, and the princes of the fathers’ households of Israel, at Jerusalem, in the rooms of Yahweh’s house.”
  • Job 21:32Yet he will be borne to the grave. Men shall keep watch over the tomb.
  • Ps 102:7I watch, and have become like a sparrow that is alone on the housetop.
  • Ps 127:1A Song of Ascents. By Solomon. Unless Yahweh builds the house, they labor in vain who build it. Unless Yahweh watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain.
  • Prov 8:34Blessed is the man who hears me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at my door posts.
  • Isa 29:20For the ruthless is brought to nothing, and the scoffer ceases, and all those who are alert to do evil are cut off —
  • Jer 1:12Then Yahweh said to me, “You have seen well; for I watch over my word to perform it.”
  • Jer 5:6Therefore a lion out of the forest shall kill them, a wolf of the evenings shall destroy them, a leopard shall watch against their cities; everyone who goes out there shall be torn in pieces; because their transgressions are many, and their backsliding is increased.
  • Jer 31:28It shall happen that, like as I have watched over them to pluck up and to break down and to overthrow and to destroy and to afflict, so will I watch over them to build and to plant,” says Yahweh.
  • Jer 44:27Behold, I watch over them for evil, and not for good; and all the men of Judah who are in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine, until they are all gone.
  • Dan 9:14Therefore has Yahweh watched over the evil, and brought it on us; for Yahweh our God is righteous in all his works which he does, and we have not obeyed his voice.

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.