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Waking

שְׁמֻרָהStrong’s H8109

shemurah (she-mu-rah)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

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

“Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.”
Psalms 77:4 KJV
Meaning
  1. Eyelid
How it's translated
  • eyelids of 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

    שְׁמֻרָה shemurah · waking

    eyelid

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

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

    WAKING, participle present

    tense

    1. Being awake; not sleeping.
    2. Rousing from sleep; exciting into motion or action.
    All definitions and other forms of “waking”

      WAKING, noun

      1. The period of being awake.
      2. Watch.

      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.