Strong's #8245: shaqad (pronounced shaw-kad')

a primitive root; to be alert, i.e. sleepless; hence to be on the lookout (whether for good or ill):--hasten, remain, wake, watch (for).

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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shâqad

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)

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 12 times:

 

Ezra 8:29: " Watch ye, and keep them, until ye weigh them before the chief of the priests and the Levites,"
Job 21:32: "Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb."
Psalms 102:7: " I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top."
Psalms 127:1: "it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain."
Proverbs 8:34: "Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates,"
Isaiah 29:20: "and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off:"
Jeremiah 1:12: "seen: for I will hasten my word to perform"
Jeremiah 5:6: "shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities:"
Jeremiah 31:28: "And it shall come to pass, that like as I have watched over them, to pluck up, and to break down, and to throw down, and to destroy,"
Jeremiah 31:28: "and to destroy, and to afflict; so will I watch over them, to build, and to plant, saith"
Jeremiah 44:27: "Behold, I will watch over them for evil, and not for good: and all the men"
Daniel 9:14: "Therefore hath the LORD watched upon the evil, and brought it upon us: for the LORD"