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# שִׁמֻּרִים

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8107

**watching** — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

watching [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8107/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שִׁמֻּר: watching, vigil [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8107/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] watching, vigil (so Di; \> observance);—pl. לֵיל שִׁמֻּרִים לי׳ Ex 12:42 a night of vigils to י׳, שׁ׳ לְכָל־בְּנֵי יִשׂ׳ v 42.

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

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[will be\] vigil(s) (1); of vigil(s) (1).

## In the verses

[Exodus 12:42](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.12.42/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.12.42/#tree)

לֵ֣יל שִׁמֻּרִ֥ים הוּא֙ לַֽיהוָ֔ה לְהוֹצִיאָ֖ם מֵאֶ֣רֶץ מִצְרָ֑יִם הֽוּא־הַלַּ֤יְלָה הַזֶּה֙ לַֽיהוָ֔ה שִׁמֻּרִ֛ים לְכָל־בְּנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל לְדֹרֹתָֽם׃פ

*Word for word:* \[was\].a.night of.vigil(s) it for Yahweh to bring them.out from the.land of.Egypt that the night (the) this for Yahweh \[will.be\].vigil(s) for all the.people of.Israel to generations their

*JPS 1917:* It was a night of watching unto the LORD for bringing them out from the land of Egypt; this same night is a night of watching unto the LORD for all the children of Israel throughout their generations.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8107.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8107/): 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).