H8245
שָׁקַד
to watch
1) to wake, watch, awake, be alert 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to keep watch of, be wakeful over 1a2) to be wakeful, wake (as mourner or sufferer)
Full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon entry
שָׁקַד verb watch, wake (Phoenician שקר be circumspect; Late Hebrew שָׁקַד be insistent; see ᵑ7 שְׁקֵד = Biblical Hebrew); —
Qal Perfect 3 masculine singular ׳שׁ Ps 127:1, שָׁקַ֫דְתִּי Jer 31:28; Ps 102:8 Imperfect 3 masculine singular יִשְׁק֑וֺד Job 21:32 (Me Bu יִשְׁוֹ֑דוּ), וַיִּשְׁקֹד Dan 9:14, 1 singular אֶשְׁקֹד Jer 31:28 Imperative masculine plural שִׁקְדוּ Ezra 8:29 Infinitive construct לִשְׁקֹד Prov 8:34 Participle active שֹׁקֵד Jer 1:12 +; plural construct שֹׁקְדֵי Isa 29:20 —
1. keep watch of, be wakeful over, ׳י subject, עַל person, to benefit or injure Jer 31:28 (twice in verse); Jer 44:27 עַל thing, to perform it Jer 1:12; Dan 9:14 so (men subject) שֹׁקְדֵי אָוֶן Isa 29:20 of leopard watching לְַעָֿרֵיהֶם Jer 5:6 (to seize prey, figurative); of man watching (for admission) at (עַל) wisdom's doors Prov 8:34 (|| שָׁמַר); = keep guard over (עַל) Job 21:32, compare (absolute) וְשִׁמְרוּ ׳שׁ Ezra 8:29 and (of watchman, שֹׁמֵר) Ps 127:1.
2. be wakeful, wake, as mourner, sufferer Ps 102:8. — Lam 1:14 read perhaps Niph`al Perfect נִשְׁקַד עַלפְּֿשָׁעַי (ᵐ5 Bu) watch has been kept over my transgressions (compare
1. above), for ᵑ0 ׳נִשְׂקַד עֹל פ. —
Pu`al denominative see infra.
9 occurrences
Ezra (1), Psalms (1), Proverbs (1), Isaiah (1), Jeremiah (4), Daniel (1)