שִׁמֻּרshimmur

watching, vigil (Exodus 12:42)

Pronunciation: shim-moor' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H8107

Same root

שָׁמַרshâmar · H8104properly, to hedge about (as with thorns), i.e. guard; generally, to protect, attend to, etc.

Where it appears

Appears 2 times in the Bible.

Exodus 12:42 On this night the Lord kept his promise to bring his people out of the land of Egypt. So this night belongs to him, and it must be commemorated every year by all the Israelites, from generation to generation.

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Exodus 12:42

Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).