# H8245 שָׁקַד

שָׁקַד (shâqad), Strong’s H8245: to be alert, i.e. sleepless; hence to be on the lookout (whether for good or ill) KJV: hasten, remain, wake, watch (for).. Occurs 12 times.

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

KJV: hasten, remain, wake, watch (for).

Occurs 12 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- שָׁקַד vb. watch, wake
- Qal
- 1 keep watch of, be wakeful over
- 2 be wakeful, wake, as mourner, sufferer
- Niph. watch has been kept over my transgressions
- Pu. denom. v. infra.

## Where it occurs
- [Isaiah 29:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/29?v=20) — For the ruthless is brought to nothing, and the scoffer ceases, and all those who are alert to do evil are cut off—
- [Jeremiah 1:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/1?v=12) — Then the LORD said to me, “You have seen well; for I watch over my word to perform it.”
- [Jeremiah 5:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/5?v=6) — Therefore a lion out of the forest will kill them. A wolf of the evenings will destroy them. A leopard will watch…
- [Jeremiah 31:28](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/31?v=28) — It will happen that, like as I have watched over them to pluck up and to break down and to overthrow and to destroy and…
- [Jeremiah 44:27](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/44?v=27) — Behold, I watch over them for evil, and not for good; and all the men of Judah who are in the land of Egypt will be…
- [Psalms 102:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/102?v=8) — I watch, and have become like a sparrow that is alone on the housetop.
- [Psalms 127:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/127?v=1) — A Song of Ascents. By Solomon. Unless the LORD builds the house, they who build it labor in vain. Unless the LORD…
- [Proverbs 8:34](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/proverbs/8?v=34) — Blessed is the man who hears me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at my door posts.
- [Job 21:32](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/job/21?v=32) — Yet he will be borne to the grave. Men will keep watch over the tomb.
- [Daniel 9:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/daniel/9?v=14) — Therefore the LORD has watched over the evil, and brought it on us; for the LORD our God is righteous in all his works…