# שָׁקַד (shaqad)

Israeli respelling: sha-qad. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H8245. 11 Old Testament occurrences.

to be alert, i.e. sleepless; hence to be on the lookout (whether for good or ill)

King James renderings: hasten, remain, wake, watch (for).

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/shaqad-h8245

## Occurrences

- [Ezra 8:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezra/8/29) — Watch ye, and keep them, until ye weigh them before the chief of the priests and the Levites, and chief of the fathers of Israel, at Jerusa…
- [Job 21:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/21/32) — Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.
- [Psalms 102:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/102/7) — I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.
- [Psalms 127:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/127/1) — Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.
- [Proverbs 8:34](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/8/34) — Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.
- [Isaiah 29:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/29/20) — For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off:
- [Jeremiah 1:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/1/12) — Then said the LORD unto me, Thou hast well seen: for I will hasten my word to perform it.
- [Jeremiah 5:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/5/6) — Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: e…
- [Jeremiah 31:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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, and to…
- [Jeremiah 44:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/44/27) — Behold, I will watch over them for evil, and not for good: and all the men of Judah that are in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the…
- [Daniel 9:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/9/14) — Therefore hath the LORD watched upon the evil, and brought it upon us: for the LORD our God is righteous in all his works which he doeth: f…