Hebrew noun (feminine) · H821
אַשְׁמֻרָה
ashmurahash-moo-raw'
watch
7 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʼashmurâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H821is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 39Old Testament books
- 6spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H821
a night watch
The King James renders it: watch.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
ashmurah is rendered "watch". It stands 7 times in the Hebrew text, across five books.
- Three of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 14:24At morning watch, however, the LORD looked down on the army of the Egyptians from the pillar of fire and cloud, and He threw their camp into confusion.
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
At morning watch, however, the LORD looked down on the army of the Egyptians from the pillar of fire and cloud, and He threw their camp into confusion.
Exodus 14:24בְּאַשְׁמֹ֣רֶת
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's seven uses are in Psalms.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- in watch of2
- night-watches2
- and a watch1
- in night-watches1
- the watch1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| אַשְׁמָה | ashmah | guiltiness | Uses19 |
| אַשְׁפֹּת | ashpoth | Dung (Gate) | Uses7 |
| אַשְׁפָּה | ashpah | quiver | Uses6 |
| אַשְׁדּוֹדִי | Ashdodi | Ashdod | Uses5 |
| אַשְׁמָן | ashman | strong | Uses1 |
| אַשְׁבֵּלִי | Ashbeli | Ashbelite | Uses1 |
| אַשְׂרִאֵלִי | Asrieli | Asrielite | Uses1 |
| אַשְׁדּוֹדִית | Ashdodith | Ashdod | Uses1 |
All 7, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
6 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- בְּאַשְׁמֹ֣רֶת2
- אַשְׁמֻר֑וֹת1
- אַשְׁמֻר֔וֹת1
- בְּ֝אַשְׁמֻר֗וֹת1
- הָאַשְׁמֹ֣רֶת1
- וְאַשְׁמוּרָ֥ה1
The grammar of each form
- noun · feminine plural2HNcfpa
- preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)2HR/Ncfsc
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular1HC/Ncfsa
- preposition + noun · feminine plural1HR/Ncfpa
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular1HTd/Ncfsa
Exodus
one use
At morning watch, however, the LORD looked down on the army of the Egyptians from the pillar of fire and cloud, and He threw their camp into confusion.
- בְּאַשְׁמֹ֣רֶתbeashmoretpreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in watch of
Judges
one use
Gideon and the hundred men with him reached the outskirts of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, just after the changing of the guard. They blew their horns and broke the jars that were in their hands.
- הָאַשְׁמֹ֣רֶתhaashmoretthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the watch
1 Samuel
one use
The next day Saul organized the troops into three divisions, and during the morning watch they invaded the camp of the Ammonites and slaughtered them, until the hottest part of the day. And the survivors were so scattered that no two of them were left together.
- בְּאַשְׁמֹ֣רֶתbeashmoretpreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in watch of
Psalms
three uses
When I remember You on my bed, I think of You through the watches of the night.
- בְּ֝אַשְׁמֻר֗וֹתbeashmurotpreposition + noun · feminine pluraltagged: in night-watches
For in Your sight a thousand years are but a day that passes, or a watch of the night.
- וְאַשְׁמוּרָ֥הveashmurahconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and a watch
My eyes anticipate the watches of night, that I may meditate on Your word.
- אַשְׁמֻר֑וֹתʾashmurotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: night-watches
Lamentations
one use
Arise, cry out in the night from the first watch of the night. Pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to Him for the lives of your children who are fainting from hunger on the corner of every street.
- אַשְׁמֻר֔וֹתʾashmurotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: night-watches
Where it leads
Studies that open this word1
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.