אַשְׁמֻרָה
ashmura · night watch
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H821 · appears 7 times in the Bible
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ashmura (אַשְׁמֻרָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “night watch”.
Watch: each of the parts into which the night was divided; the morning watch was the last, before dawn.
How to say it
ash·mu·ra
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
In today's measures
a turn of guard duty: the night in three approximate
The first, the middle one (Judges 7:19) and the morning watch (Exodus 14:24).
| first | dusk to about 10 p.m. |
|---|---|
| middle | about 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. · Judges 7:19 |
| morning | about 2 a.m. to dawn · Exodus 14:24 |
Its senses in the Bible
- Each part into which the night was divided.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- watch ×4
- watches ×3
Where it appears
- Exodus 14:24
In the morning watch, YHWH looked down on the camp of the Egyptians from the pillar of fire and cloud, and threw into confusion the camp of the Egyptians.
- Judges 7:19
Gideon and the hundred men who were with him came to the edge of the camp at the beginning of the watch in the middle, when they had just set the guards; and they blew the horns and smashed the jars that were in their hand.
- 1 Samuel 11:11
And it came about on the next day that Saul put the people in three groups, and they came into the midst of the camp in the watch of the morning, and they struck Ammon until the heat of the day. And those who remained scattered, and not two of them were left together.
- Psalms 63:6
when I remember you upon my bed, in the watches I meditate on you;
- Psalms 90:4
For a thousand years in your eyes are like the day of yesterday when it passes, and like a watch in the night.
- Psalms 119:148
My eyes went ahead of the watches of the night, to reflect on your saying.
- Lamentations 2:19
Arise, cry aloud in the night, at the beginning of the watches; pour out like water your heart before the face of Adonai; lift up to him your hands for the life of your little children who faint from hunger at the head of every street.”