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# אַשְׁמוּרָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H821

**watch** — used 7 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

watch [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/821/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אַשְׁמוּרָה²: n.f. watch [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/821/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. watch (division of time);—abs. אַשְׁמוּרָה בַּלָּ֑יְלָה ψ 90:4; רֹאשׁ הָאַשְׁמֹרֶת הַתִּיכוֹנָה Ju 7:19; cstr. אַשְׁמֹרֶת הַבֹּקֶר Ex 14:24 (J), 1 S 11:11; pl. abs. אַשְׁמֻרוֹת La 2:19 ψ 63:7; 119:148.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the watch (3); \[the\] night-watches (1); a watch (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 119:148](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.148/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.148/#tree)

קִדְּמ֣וּ עֵ֭ינַי אַשְׁמֻר֑וֹת לָ֝שִׂ֗יחַ בְּאִמְרָתֶֽךָ׃

*Word for word:* they.anticipate eyes my \[the\].night-watches to meditate on word your

*JPS 1917:* Mine eyes forestalled the night-watches, that I might meditate in Thy word.

[Psalms 63:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.63.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.63.7/#tree)

אִם־זְכַרְתִּ֥יךָ עַל־יְצוּעָ֑י בְּ֝אַשְׁמֻר֗וֹת אֶהְגֶּה־בָּֽךְ׃

*Word for word:* if I have.remembered.you on beds my in.\[the\] night-watches I.meditate on you

*JPS 1917:* When I remember Thee upon my couch, and meditate on Thee in the night-watches.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/821.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/821/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).