Hebrew verb · H8245
שָׁקַד
shaqadshaw-kad'
to watch
12 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: shâqad
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H8245is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 7 of 39Old Testament books
- 12spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H8245
to be alert, i.e. sleepless; hence to be on the lookout (whether for good or ill)
The King James renders it: hasten, remain, wake, watch (for).
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
shaqad is rendered "to watch". It stands 12 times in the Hebrew text, across seven books.
- Five of the uses stand in Jeremiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Ezra 8:29Guard them carefully until you weigh them out in the chambers of the house of the LORD in Jerusalem before the leading priests, Levites, and heads of the Israelite families.”
- The Greek text spells it twelve different ways.
The first use
Guard them carefully until you weigh them out in the chambers of the house of the LORD in Jerusalem before the leading priests, Levites, and heads of the Israelite families.”
Ezra 8:29שִׁקְד֣וּ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- watching3
- and he kept watch1
- by keeping watch1
- he has kept awake1
- I am wakeful1
- I kept watch1
- I will keep watch1
- lie in wait1
- someone will keep watch1
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| שָׁקָה | shaqah | to water: watering | Uses61 |
| שָׁקַט | shaqat | to quiet | Uses41 |
| שָׁקַל | shaqal | to weigh | Uses22 |
| שָׁקַף | shaqaph | to look | Uses22 |
| שָׁקַץ | shaqats | to detest | Uses7 |
| שָׁקַד | shaqad | be almond shaped | Uses6 |
| שָׁקַע | shaqa | to sink | Uses6 |
| שָׁקַק | shaqaq | to rush | Uses6 |
| שָׁקַר | shaqar | to deal | Uses6 |
| שָׁקֵד | shaqed | almond | Uses4 |
| שָׁקֻף | shaquph | frame | Uses2 |
| שָׁק | shaq | leg | Uses1 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 12, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
12 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
- אֶשְׁקֹ֧ד1
- וַיִּשְׁקֹ֤ד1
- יִשְׁקֽוֹד׃1
- לִשְׁקֹ֣ד1
- שָׁקַ֬ד1
- שֹׁקֵ֥ד1
- שֹׁקֵד֙1
- שֹׁקֵ֧ד1
- שִׁקְד֣וּ1
- שֹׁ֥קְדֵי1
- שָׁקַ֥דְתִּי1
- שָׁקַ֣דְתִּי1
The grammar of each form
- verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular3HVqrmsa
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular2HVqp1cs
- Hc/Vqw3ms1Hc/Vqw3ms
- preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)1HR/Vqcc
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular1HVqi1cs
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVqi3ms
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVqp3ms
- verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HVqrmpc
- verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine plural1HVqv2mp
Ezra
one use
Guard them carefully until you weigh them out in the chambers of the house of the LORD in Jerusalem before the leading priests, Levites, and heads of the Israelite families.”
- שִׁקְד֣וּshikduverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: watch
Job
one use
He is carried to the grave, and watch is kept over his tomb.
- יִשְׁקֽוֹד׃yishkodverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: someone will keep watch
Psalms
two uses
I lie awake; I am like a lone bird on a housetop.
- שָׁקַ֥דְתִּיshakadtiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I am wakeful
Unless the LORD builds the house, its builders labor in vain; unless the LORD protects the city, its watchmen stand guard in vain.
- שָׁקַ֬דshakadverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has kept awake
Proverbs
one use
Blessed is the man who listens to me, watching daily at my doors, waiting at the posts of my doorway.
- לִשְׁקֹ֣דlishkodpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: by keeping watch
Isaiah
one use
For the ruthless will vanish, the mockers will disappear, and all who look for evil will be cut down—
- שֹׁ֥קְדֵיshokedeiverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: lie in wait
Jeremiah
five uses
“You have observed correctly,” said the LORD, “for I am watching over My word to accomplish it.”
- שֹׁקֵ֥דshokedverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: watching
Therefore a lion from the forest will strike them down, a wolf from the desert will ravage them. A leopard will lie in wait near their cities, and everyone who ventures out will be torn to pieces. For their rebellious acts are many, and their unfaithful deeds are numerous.
- שֹׁקֵד֙shokedverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: watching
Just as I watched over them to uproot and tear down, to demolish, destroy, and bring disaster, so I will watch over them to build and to plant,” declares the LORD.
- שָׁקַ֣דְתִּיshakadtiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I kept watch
- אֶשְׁקֹ֧דʾeshkodverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will keep watch
I am watching over them for harm and not for good, and every man of Judah who is in the land of Egypt will meet his end by sword or famine, until they are finished off.
- שֹׁקֵ֧דshokedverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: watching
Daniel
one use
Therefore the LORD has kept the calamity in store and brought it upon us. For the LORD our God is righteous in all He does; yet we have not obeyed His voice.
- וַיִּשְׁקֹ֤דvaiyishkodHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he kept watch
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.