אַשְׁמֻרָה ʼashmurâh

Meaning

a night watch

In the King James Version: watch.

Derivation: or אַשׁמוּרָה; or אַשׁמֹרֶת; (feminine) from H8104 (שָׁמַר);

Where it is used

• Exodus 14:24 At morning watch, however, the LORD looked down on the army of the Egyptians from the pillar of fire and cloud, and He threw their camp into confusion.
• Judges 7:19 Gideon and the hundred men with him reached the outskirts of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, just after the changing of the guard. They blew their horns and broke the jars that were in their hands.
• 1 Samuel 11:11 The next day Saul organized the troops into three divisions, and during the morning watch they invaded the camp of the Ammonites and slaughtered them, until the hottest part of the day. And the survivors were so scattered that no two of them were left together.
• Psalms 63:6 When I remember You on my bed, I think of You through the watches of the night.
• Psalms 90:4 For in Your sight a thousand years are but a day that passes, or a watch of the night.
• Psalms 119:148 My eyes anticipate the watches of night, that I may meditate on Your word.
• Lamentations 2:19 Arise, cry out in the night from the first watch of the night. Pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to Him for the lives of your children who are fainting from hunger on the corner of every street.