Strong's #6822: tsaphah (pronounced tsaw-faw')

a primitive root; properly, to lean forward, i.e. to peer into the distance; by implication, to observe, await:-- behold, espy, look up (well), wait for, (keep the) watch(-man).

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

tsâphâh

1) to look out or about, spy, keep watch, observe, watch

1a) (Qal) to keep watch, spy

1b) (Piel) to watch, watch closely

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 36 times:

 

Genesis 31:49: "for he said, The LORD watch between me and thee, when we are absent one"
1 Samuel 4:13: "upon a seat by the wayside watching: for his heart trembled"
1 Samuel 14:16: " And the watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked; and, behold, the multitude melted away,"
2 Samuel 13:34: "But Absalom fled. And the young man that kept the watch lifted up his eyes, and looked,"
2 Samuel 18:24: "between the two gates: and the watchman went up to the roof over the gate"
2 Samuel 18:25: " And the watchman cried, and told the king. And the king said, If he be alone,"
2 Samuel 18:26: " And the watchman saw another man running: and the watchman called unto"
2 Samuel 18:26: "another man running: and the watchman called unto the porter, and said,"
2 Samuel 18:27: " And the watchman said, Me thinketh the running of the foremost is like the running"
2 Kings 9:17: "And there stood a watchman on the tower in Jezreel, and he spied the company"
2 Kings 9:18: "What hast thou to do with peace? turn thee behind me. And the watchman told, saying,"
2 Kings 9:20: " And the watchman told, saying, He came even unto them, and cometh not again:"
Job 15:22: "out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword."
Psalms 5:3: "O LORD; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up."
Psalms 37:32: "The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay"
Psalms 66:7: "by his power forever; his eyes behold the nations: let not the rebellious exalt"
Proverbs 15:3: "of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and the good."
Proverbs 31:27: " She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness."
Song of Solomon 7:4: "thy nose is as the tower of Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus."
Isaiah 21:5: "Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes,"
Isaiah 21:6: "unto me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth."
Isaiah 52:8: " Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they sing: for they shall see"
Isaiah 56:10: " His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs,"
Jeremiah 6:17: "Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not"
Jeremiah 48:19: "stand by the way, and espy; ask him that fleeth, and her that escapeth, and say,"
Lamentations 4:17: "our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save"
Ezekiel 3:17: "Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word"
Ezekiel 33:2: "man of their coasts, and set him for their watchman:"
Ezekiel 33:6: "But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not"
Ezekiel 33:6: "in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand."
Ezekiel 33:7: "O son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the house of Israel; therefore thou shalt hear the word"
Hosea 9:8: " The watchman of Ephraim was with my God: but the prophet is a snare of a fowler in"
Micah 7:4: "the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh; now"
Micah 7:7: "Therefore I will look unto the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear"
Nahum 2:1: "thy face: keep the munition, watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify"
Habakkuk 2:1: "and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what"