Vigil
שִׁמֻּרStrong’s H8107shimmur (shim-mur)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Shimmur is the Hebrew word usually translated “vigil”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“It is a night to be much observed unto the LORD for bringing them out from the land of Egypt: this is that night of the LORD to be observed of all the children of Israel in their generations.”
Meaning
- Night watch, watching, vigil
How it's translated
- vigil 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
שִׁמֻּר shimmur · vigil
night watch, watching, vigil
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “vigil” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
VIG'IL, noun
[Latin vigilia, vigil walking, watchful; vigilo, to watch. This is formed on the root of Eng. wake. The primary sense is to stir or excite, to rouse, to agitate.]
- Watch; devotion performed in the customary hours of rest or sleep.
- In church affairs, the eve or evening before any feast, the ecclesiastical day beginning at 6:00 in the evening, and continuing till the same hour the following evening; hence, a religious service performed in the evening preceding a holiday.
- A fast observed on the day preceding a holiday; a wake.
- Watch; forbearance of sleep; as the vigils of the card table.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.