shakad · keep watch, be awake

What it means

shakad (שָׁקַד) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “keep watch, be awake”.

To keep watch, to stay awake and alert in order to guard something.

How to say it

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.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To stay awake and alert to guard or carry out something.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• watching ×4
• Keep watch ×2
• I have watched ×1
• I will watch ×1
• kept watch ×1
• stays awake ×1
• watch is kept ×1
• who watch for ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Ezra×1
• Job×1
• Psalms×2
• Proverbs×1
• Isaiah×1
• Jeremiah×5
• Daniel×1

• Ezra 8:29

  Keep watch and guard them until you weigh them before the leaders of the priests and the Levites and the leaders of the fathers’ houses of Israel in Jerusalem, in the chambers of the house of YHWH.”

• Job 21:32

  And he to the graves is carried, and over the heap watch is kept.

• Psalms 102:7

  I keep watch, and I am like a bird alone on the roof.

• Psalms 127:1

  A song of the ascents. Of Solomon. If YHWH does not build a house, in vain its builders toil on it; if YHWH does not keep a city, in vain the keeper stays awake.

• Proverbs 8:34

  Happy is the man who listens to me, watching at my doors day by day, guarding the doorposts of my entrances.

• Isaiah 29:20

  For the tyrant has come to nothing, and the scoffer is finished, and all who watch for wickedness will be cut off,

• Jeremiah 1:12

  And YHWH said to me, “You have seen well, for I am watching over my word to do it.”

• Jeremiah 5:6

  Therefore a lion from the forest will strike them, a wolf of the steppes will devastate them, a leopard is watching over their cities; everyone who goes out of them will be torn to pieces, for their transgressions are many, their apostasies are mighty.

• Jeremiah 31:28

  And it will happen that as I have watched over them to uproot and to tear down, to demolish and to destroy and to bring harm, so I will watch over them to build and to plant, declares YHWH.

• Jeremiah 44:27

  Look, I am watching over them for evil and not for good; and all the men of Judah who are in the land of Egypt will come to an end by the sword and by famine, until they are finished.

• Daniel 9:14

  And YHWH kept watch over the evil and brought it on us; for YHWH our Elohim is righteous in all his works that he has done, and we have not listened to his voice.

And 1 more times.