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# שׁוֹרֵר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8324

**watcher** — used 5 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

watcher [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8324/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שׁוֹרֵר: n.m. watcher Pōʿl. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8324/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. (insidious) watcher, (proposes Pōʿl. Pt., מְ׳ om., Ges§ 52 s);—pl. sf. שׁוֹרְרַי ψ 56:3, שׁוֹרְרָ֑י 5:9; 27:11, שֹׁרְרָ֑י 54:7; 59:11; 92:12 v. foregoing.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: enemies (5).

## In the verses

[Psalms 54:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.54.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.54.7/#tree)

יָשִׁ֣יב הָ֭רַע לְשֹׁרְרָ֑י בַּ֝אֲמִתְּךָ֗ הַצְמִיתֵֽם׃

*Word for word:* may.he.bring.back the evil to enemies my in faithfulness your destroy them

*JPS 1917:* He will requite the evil unto them that lie in wait for me; destroy Thou them in Thy truth.

[Psalms 59:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.59.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.59.11/#tree)

אֱלֹהֵ֣י חַסְדִּ֣י יְקַדְּמֵ֑נִי אֱ֝לֹהִ֗ים יַרְאֵ֥נִי בְשֹׁרְרָֽי׃

*Word for word:* the.God my.covenant.loyalty my he will.meet.me God he will.let.me.look on enemies my

*JPS 1917:* The God of my mercy will come to meet me; God will let me gaze upon mine adversaries.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8324/): 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).