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Guard

שׇׁמְרָהStrong’s H8108

shomrah (shom-rah)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Shomrah is the Hebrew word usually translated “guard”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.”
Psalms 141:3 KJV
Meaning
  1. Guard, watch
How it's translated
  • a guard 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Psalms 1

1 book in all.

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    Hebrew dictionary

    שׇׁמְרָה shomrah · guard

    guard, watch

    From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

    How the English word “guard” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

    GUARD, verb transitive

    gard. [Latin verus; wahren, to keep, to last, to hold out; bewahren, to keep or preserve; bewahren, to verify, to confirm; Eng. ware, aware; ]

    1. To secure against injury, loss or attack; to protect; to defend; to keep in safety.
    2. To secure against objections or the attacks of malevolence.
    3. To accompany and protect; to accompany for protection; as, to guard a general on a journey; to guard the baggage of an army.
    4. To adorn with lists, laces or ornaments.
    All definitions and other forms of “guard”
    1. To gird; to fasten by binding.

    GUARD, verb intransitive

    To watch by way of caution or defense; to be cautions; to be in a state of defense or safety. guard against mistakes, or against temptations.

      GUARD, noun

      [Eng. ward.]

      1. Defense; preservation or security against injury, loss or attack.
      2. That which secures against attack or injury; that which defends.
      3. A man or body of men occupied in preserving a person or place from attack or injury; he or they whose business is to defend, or to prevent attack or surprise.
      4. A state of caution or vigilance; or the act of observing what passes in order to prevent surprise or attack; care; attention; watch; heed.
      5. That which secures against objections or censure; caution of expression.
      6. Part of the hilt of a sword, which protects the hand.
      7. In fencing, a posture of defense.
      8. An ornamental lace, hem or boarder.

      GUARD'-BOAT, noun

      A boat appointed to row the rounds among ships of war in a harbor, to observe that their officers keep a good look-out.

        GUARD'-CHAMBER, noun

        A guard-room.

          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.