Lexical Definition

‎שָׁקַד‎ shâqad (shaw-kad') to watch ^H:V
a primitive root

hasten, remain, wake, watch (for).

• to be alert, i.e. sleepless
• hence to be on the lookout (whether for good or ill)

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)

See Greek: ἀγρυπνέω · γρηγορεύω

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎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.

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