176 occurrences in 13 translations

'Watching' in the Bible

""Look around!' he said. "Go ahead, look! All the male goats have been mating with the flock, producing offspring that are streaked, speckled, and spotted, because I've been watching everything that Laban has done to you.

Verse ConceptsGod Seeing Their AfflictionBlemished CreaturesBlack And WhiteGod Sending His Son

If you mistreat my daughters or if you take other wives besides them, though no one is watching us, keep in mind that God stands as a witness between you and me."

Verse ConceptsdaughtersPolygamyWitnesses, LegalAppealing To GodThe Witness Of GodPeople Possibly Doing Evil

As he was watching them, Jacob said, "This must be God's camp," so he named that place Mahanaim.

"We're all guilty because of what we did to our brother!" they told each other. "We kept on watching his suffering while he pleaded with us! We're in this mess because we wouldn't listen!"

Verse ConceptsGuilty ConsciencesGuilt, Human Aspects OfAfflicted Saints, Examples OfFound GuiltyPeople Without MercyWhy It HappenedHuman Awareness Of Guilt

Then the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, "Take handfuls of soot from a furnace, and have Moses throw it into the air while Pharaoh is watching.

Verse ConceptsFurnacesSootSpectators

It is a night of watching to be observed for the Lord for having brought them out of the land of Egypt; this [same] night is for the Lord, to be observed and celebrated by all the Israelites throughout their generations.

Verse ConceptsFreedom, Acts Of In OtMan Keeping WatchActing All Night

And all the people were watching the thunderings and the flames and the sound of the horn and the mountain smoking; and when they saw it, they kept far off, shaking with fear.

Verse ConceptsLightningMusical Instruments, types ofSmokeTheophanyThunderFear, Of UnknownStanding At A DistanceTrumpets For SignallingThose Frightened Of GodWitnessingdistancesmokingThunder Showing God's Presence

“When a man gives his neighbor a donkey, an ox, a sheep, or any other animal to care for, but it dies, is injured, or is stolen, while no one is watching,

Verse ConceptsDriving Out AnimalsDeath Of CreaturesUnseenWoundsPeople Keeping

And the Lord said to Moses, I have been watching this people, and I see that they are a stiff-necked people.

Verse ConceptsNecksStubbornnessStiffnecked PeopleSelf WillGod Seeing The Wicked

When Moses would go out to the tent, all the people would get up, and each would stand in the doorway of his tent, watching Moses until he entered the tent.

Verse ConceptsTentsLooking Intently At People

After Ehud died, while the LORD was watching, the Israelis made the evil they had been practicing even worse,

Verse ConceptsGod's People Sinning

Manoah took a young goat and a grain offering and offered them on a rock to the Lord, and He did a wonderful thing while Manoah and his wife were watching.

Verse ConceptsGoatsAmazement, Of God's ActionsSacrifice, In OtAltars, Built ByMaking Cereal Offerings And Libations

And when the flame went up toward the heaven from the altar, the angel of Yahweh went up in the flame of the altar to heaven while Manoah and his wife [were] watching. And they fell on their faces to the ground.

Verse ConceptsProstrationCreatures Going UpOther Creatures Going Up

And it was said to the Gazites, Samson is here. So they went round, watching for him all day at the doorway of the town, but at night they kept quiet, saying, When daylight comes we will put him to death.

Verse ConceptsDawnWaitingAmbushActing All NightAttempting To Kill Specific People

The temple was full of men and women; all the leaders of the Philistines were there, and about 3,000 men and women were on the roof watching Samson entertain them.

Verse ConceptsFilling HousesThree Thousand And UpRooftopSports

The priest told them, “Go in peace. The Lord is watching over the journey you are going on.”

Verse ConceptsGoing In PeacePeace

And watching; and if the daughters of Shiloh come out to take part in the dances, then come from the vine-gardens and take a wife for every one of you from among the daughters of Shiloh, and go back to the land of Benjamin.

Verse ConceptsWives For Benjamin

As she continued to pray in the LORD's presence, Eli was watching her mouth.

And when he came, lo, Eli sat upon a seat by the wayside watching: for his heart trembled for the ark of God. And when the man came into the city, and told it, all the city cried out.

Verse ConceptsHeart, HumanRoadsTownHuman EmotionGroups ShoutingTelling Of Happenings

Keep watching it. If it goes up along the road to its own territory to Beth-shemesh, it's the LORD who has done this great evil to us. But if it does not, then we will know that he wasn't pressuring us. It happened to us as a natural event."

Verse ConceptsChanceDistinguishingNatural Disasters

As the ark of the LORD was coming into the City of David, Saul's daughter Michal was peering out a window, watching King David jumping and dancing in the LORD's presence, and she despised him in her heart.

Verse ConceptsLeapingContempt, Examples OfHeart, Fallen And RedeemedSuperiorityBad Wives ExamplesLooking Through WindowsPeople Jumpingjumping

And it cometh to pass in Joab's watching of the city, that he appointeth Uriah unto the place where he knew that valiant men are;

Verse ConceptsMan Appointing

Then Absalom instructed his young men, "Please keep watching Amnon until he's drunk. Then I'll tell you, "Attack Amnon!' As soon as I do, kill him and don't be afraid! You have your orders, so be strong and brave!"

Verse ConceptsFeastingAssassinations, CompletedWineBraveryDrunk IndividualsBe Courageous!

And Absalom fleeth, and the young man who is watching lifteth up his eyes and looketh, and lo, much people are coming by the way behind him, on the side of the hill.

Verse ConceptsFugitivesWatchmanWest

Now, my master, O king, all Israel is watching anxiously to see who is named to succeed my master the king on the throne.

While Elisha was watching, he was crying out, "My father, my father! The chariot and horsemen of Israel!" Then he could no longer see him. He grabbed his clothes and tore them in two.

Verse ConceptsTearing Of ClothesSuffering, Emotional Aspects OfDuplicating WordsSpiritual FathersHeavenly ChariotsThose Who Tore ClothesStruggles In Relationship

When the sons of the prophets who were [watching] opposite at Jericho saw him, they said, “The spirit of Elijah rests on Elisha.” And they came to meet him and bowed down to the ground before him [in respect].

Verse ConceptsSchool Of ProphetsSons Of The Prophets

Meanwhile, Elisha was sitting in his house, along with the elders, when the king sent a man to kill him, but before the messenger arrived, Elisha told the elders, "Are you watching how this descendant of murderers has ordered my head be cut off? Look, when the messenger arrives, shut the door and hold it to shut them out! Don't you hear the sound of his master's feet right behind him?"

Verse ConceptsMessengerRemoving HeadsShutting DoorsKilling ProphetsSkullsSoundThe Elders Gathered

But Jehoahaz sought the LORD, and the LORD paid attention to him, because the LORD had been watching the oppression that Israel was enduring from the king of Aram.

Verse ConceptsAnswered PrayerGrace, In OtNamed Individuals Who PrayedSeeking The Favour Of God

They spent the night around the house of God, for the [night] watch was theirs, and they were in charge of opening the house morning after morning.

Verse ConceptsKeysEvery MorningActing All Night

But as the Ark of the Covenant of the LORD approached the City of David, Saul's daughter Michal was peering out a window, watching King David dancing and cavorting around, and she despised him in her heart.

Verse ConceptsdanceDancingHeart, Fallen And RedeemedSuperiorityLooking Through WindowsPeople Jumping

So keep watching, because the LORD has chosen you to build the Temple of his sanctuary. So be strong, and get to work!"

Verse Conceptselection, responsibilities ofStrength Of PeopleSolomon's Temple

All the Israelites were watching when the fire descended and the glory of the Lord came on the temple. They bowed down on the pavement with their faces to the ground. They worshiped and praised the Lord:For He is good,for His faithful love endures forever.

Verse ConceptsGod, Goodness OfPraiseKneelingWorship, Elements OfWorship, Reasons For

But God was watching over the Jewish elders. These men wouldn’t stop them until a report was sent to Darius, so that they could receive written instructions about this matter.

Verse ConceptsJews, TheWatchfulness, DivineGod Seeing The Righteous

Later I told them, "You all are watching the predicament we're in, how Jerusalem lies desolate, with its gates burned by fire. Let's rebuild the Jerusalem wall so we're no longer a disgrace."

Verse ConceptsWallsDistressDestruction Of JerusalemCity GatesBurning JerusalemEliminating ShameRebuilding Jerusalemrebuilding

And the gatekeepers, Akkub, Talmon, and their brethren, those watching at the gates, are a hundred seventy and two.

Verse ConceptsGatekeepersGatesPortersA Hundred And Some

And you put chains on my feet, watching all my ways, and making a limit for my steps;

Verse ConceptsPaths Of BelieversGod Seeing All PeoplePathsfootprints

The adulterer watches for twilight, saying, "No eye is watching me' while he veils his face.

Verse ConceptsSunsetsNot Seeing PeopleUnseendisguisesAdulteryPurgatoryadultry

God may let them rest in a feeling of security, but he is constantly watching all their ways.

Verse ConceptsGod, All knowingGod's Knowledge Of PeopleSin, Known To GodGod Seeing All People

Look! All of you have been watching, so why have you become so completely worthless?

Verse ConceptsUseless PeopleLooking At God's Works

If only I might again be as I was in the months which are past, in the days when God was watching over me!

Verse ConceptsGod Keeping WatchWatchfulness, DivineThe Pastpreservation

He has bound my feet in shackles, and keeps watching everything I do.'"

Verse ConceptsWatchfulness, DivineGod Is UnchangeableGod Seeing All People

From there he is watching for food; his eye sees it far off.

Verse ConceptsGood Things From Far Away

The wicked is watching for the righteous, And is seeking to put him to death.

Verse ConceptsAttempting To KillWaitingWatchfulness, Of BelieversWatching To EntrapSpying

For see, they are watching in secret for my soul; the strong have come together against me? but not because of my sin, or my evil-doing, O Lord.

Verse ConceptsOffenceWaitingAmbushNo SinWaiting On The LordEnemy Attacksgathering

So I have seen you in the sanctuary, watching your power and your glory.

Verse ConceptsSanctuaryGlory Of GodThose Who Saw GodGod Showed His Power

They tripped over their own tongues, and everyone who was watching ran away.

Verse ConceptsGesturesShaking The HeadThe Tongue

For mine enemies have spoken against me, And those watching my soul have taken counsel together,

Verse ConceptsFaultsDesire For DeathMan's CounselEnemy Attacks

Thou holdest mine eyes watching: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.

Verse ConceptsInsomnia, Causes OfRest, PhysicalAnxiety And Depression

My eyes fail [with longing, watching] for [the fulfillment of] Your promise,Saying, “When will You comfort me?”

Verse ConceptsSearchingAfflictions, Consolation DuringBible, Given ForBible, In Christian LivingDivine DelaysEyes HarmedBefore God Acts

My eyes fail [with longing, watching] for [the fulfillment of] Your salvation,And for [the fulfillment of] Your righteous word.

Verse ConceptsEyes HarmedGod's Word Is Righteous

My soul is for the Lord, More than those watching for morning, Watching for morning!

Verse ConceptsDawnMonotonyMorningWatchmanRelying Upon GodThose Who Wait For GodWaiting On The Lord

Looking out from my house, and watching through the window,

Verse ConceptsLooking Through WindowsLooking And Seeing

A highway of the upright is, 'Turn from evil,' Whoso is preserving his soul is watching his way.

Verse ConceptsGuardsHighwayMan Keeping WatchTurning From EvilHighways

When the man of pride undergoes punishment, the simple man gets wisdom; and by watching the wise he gets knowledge.

Verse ConceptsFolly, Effects OfMockeryScornersAcquiring KnowledgeJudicial PunishmentMan's Wisdommockers

If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter; for a higher than the high is watching, and there are higher than they.

Verse ConceptsOppressorsAuthorityNot Helping The PoorInjusticeoppressionsurprises

“Your head crowns you like Mount Carmel,And the flowing hair of your head like purple threads;I, the king, am held captive by your tresses.

Verse ConceptsAppearance Of Hair

In the day of your planting you were watching its growth, and in the morning your seed was flowering: but its fruit is wasted away in the day of grief and bitter sorrow.

Verse ConceptsReapingPlanting Seeds

For this is what the Lord has said to me: I will be quiet, watching from my place; like the clear heat when the sun is shining, like a mist of dew in the heat of summer.

Verse ConceptsdewHeatHoly Spirit, Types OfHot WeatherGod Seeing All The EarthHerbsSunshine

I, the Lord, am watching it; I will give it water at all times: I will keep it night and day, for fear that any damage comes to it.

Verse ConceptsGuardsWatchmanMetaphorical VineyardsHoly Spirit, Types OfProtection Day And NightHurtProtection From EnemiesTaking Care Of The EarthProtection From Danger

For ceased hath the terrible one, And consumed hath been the scorner, And cut off have been all watching for iniquity,

Verse ConceptsCruelty, God's attitude toMockeryInfidelity To GodUncharitablenessWatching To EntrapPeople EndedScoffersmockers

The LORD told me, "You have observed well, because I'm watching over my message, to make sure it comes about."

Verse ConceptsGod Keeping WatchGod Pays Attentionfulfillmentperformance

Therefore a lion from the forest will attack them, a wolf from the desert will devastate them. A leopard is watching their towns, and everyone who goes out of them will be torn to pieces. For their transgressions are many, and their apostasies numerous.

Verse ConceptsForestsLeopardCarnivorousnessWolvesIn Danger From Lions

For there are sinners among my people: they keep watch, like men watching for birds; they put a net and take men in it.

Verse ConceptsHuntingTrapWaitingAmbushSnares Laid for PeopleMan TrappingBirds

Has this house that is called by my name become a hideout for bandits in your eyes? Look, I'm watching," declares the LORD.

Verse ConceptsRespect, For God's CharacterStealingDensStatus Of The TempleA Place For God's Namethieves

For I have heard the evil report of many, Fear is round about: 'Declare, and we declare it,' All mine allies are watching for my halting, 'Perhaps he is enticed, and we prevail over him, And we take our vengeance out of him.'

Verse ConceptsFriendlessnessPeace, Human Destruction OfPersecution, Forms OfSympathyWaitingWatchfulness, Of BelieversWatching To EntrapDefamationDeceiving OneselfFear Will ComeFriends FailingMan AvengingUnder One's BreathRevengeterrorism

And it will come about that, as I have been watching over them for the purpose of uprooting and smashing down and overturning and sending destruction and causing trouble; so I will be watching over them for the purpose of building up and planting, says the Lord.

Verse ConceptsRootsWatchfulness, DivinePlucking OutMetaphorical Planting

Look, the siege ramps have reached the city to take it. Because of the sword, famine, and plague, the city has been given over to the Chaldeans who are fighting against it. What you said has happened, and you are watching it occur!

Verse ConceptsAttackingActual Attacks On JerusalemGod Will Cause Defeat

"Take some large stones and bury them in the mortar of the clay pavement at the entrance of Pharaoh's residence here in Tahpanhes. Do it while the people of Judah present there are watching.

Verse ConceptsBricksClayHidden Things

I am watching over them for disaster and not for good, and every man of Judah who is in the land of Egypt will meet his end by sword or famine until they are finished off.

Verse ConceptsKilled With The SwordFamine KillingGod Will Bring Harm

As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us.

Verse ConceptsFutilityFalse ConfidenceDisappointmentsMan Keeping WatchTowersEyes HarmedUseless LabourNo HelpThings Which Cannot Save

"The house of Israel and Judah is guilty and theirs is a stubborn guilt, at that!" he replied to me. "The land is filled with blood, and the city overflows with injustice, because they keep saying, "The LORD has abandoned the land,' and "The LORD isn't watching.'

Verse ConceptsSuffering, Causes OfPerversionGod, All knowingGod Not SeeingKilling Many PeopleGod's People SinningScoffers

"So now, Son of Man, you are to prepare your luggage for a trip into exile, and then you are to leave during the daytime so they see you leaving. Leave from your place to another while they're watching. Then perhaps they'll realize that they're a rebellious house.

Verse ConceptsUsing The DayBaggageExile In ProspectSeeing SituationsUnderstanding God's WordPreparationMoving OnMoving To A New Placerebellion

"Bring out your luggage, like you're packing to go into exile, and do this during the daytime while they're watching you. Later that evening, leave while they're watching you like someone heading into exile.

Verse ConceptsUsing The DayPlucking OutBaggageExile In ProspectSeeing Situations

While they are watching, dig a hole in the wall and carry your belongings out through it.

Verse ConceptsThe Act Of OpeningOpening WallsGoing OutsideSeeing Situations

"While they're watching, carry your luggage on your shoulder and go out in total darkness. Cover your face so that you won't see the land, because I'm using you as a sign to Israel's house."

Verse ConceptsDarkness Of NightPeople As SignsSeeing SituationsCarrying Other Loads

I did just as I was commanded. I brought out the luggage as if it were luggage for exile. I did this during the day. Then in the evening I dug a hole in the wall with my hand and brought the luggage out in total darkness and carried it out on my shoulder while they were watching.

Verse ConceptsUsing The DayThe Act Of OpeningOpening WallsDarkness Of NightBaggageExile In ProspectSeeing SituationsCarrying Other Loads

You profaned your sanctuariesby the magnitude of your iniquitiesin your dishonest trade.So I made fire come from within you,and it consumed you.I reduced you to ashes on the groundin the sight of everyone watching you.

Verse ConceptsAshesMoney, Stewardship OfSanctuaryTradeTrustworthinessFire Of Judgement

"When I gather the house of Israel from the nations to which I've scattered them, I will show them my holiness before the watching world, and they will live on the land that I gave to my servant Jacob. They will live in safety in the land, building houses and planting vineyards. They'll live in safety while I judge everyone who maligns them among those who surround them. At that time they'll learn that I am the LORD their God.'"

Verse ConceptsAssurance, basis ofSafetyVineyardPlanting Vineyards

“My king, as you were watching, a colossal statue appeared. That statue, tall and dazzling, was standing in front of you, and its appearance was terrifying.

Verse ConceptsFear Of Other Things

As you were watching, a stone broke off without a hand touching it, struck the statue on its feet of iron and fired clay, and crushed them.

Verse ConceptsMessianic PropheciesCutting StonesStriking RocksChrist The RockIron Objectsstatues

Here are the visions of my mind while I was on my bed. While I was watching, there was a tree in the middle of the land. It was enormously tall.

Verse ConceptsHeightLying Down To RestThings On High

While I was watching in my mind's visions on my bed, a holy sentinel came down from heaven.

Verse ConceptsMediatorLying Down To RestAngels Going At God's BiddingSpecific Holy Individuals

At that very moment the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the royal palace wall, opposite the lampstand. The king was watching the back of the hand that was writing.

Verse ConceptsFingersFinger Of GodHousesInscriptionsPalacesWallsPlasterJudgements WrittenFingers Of PeopleGod Writing With His FingerGod's Intervention

Bible Theasaurus

Ascertain (6 instances)
Catch (67 instances)
Check (14 instances)
Determine (43 instances)
Follow (353 instances)
Observance (13 instances)
Observation (12 instances)
Observe (357 instances)
Watching (176 instances)

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Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
אשׁמרת אשׁמוּרה אשׁמרה 
'ashmurah 
Usage: 7

παρατηρέω 
Paratereo 
Usage: 6

מצפּה 
Mitspeh 
Usage: 2

משׁמר 
Mishmar 
Usage: 22

משׁמרת 
Mishmereth 
Usage: 78

נצר 
Natsar 
Usage: 63

עיר 
`iyr (Aramaic) 
Usage: 3

צפה 
Tsaphah 
Usage: 36

צפיּה 
Ts@phiyah 
Usage: 1

צפית 
Tsaphiyth 
Usage: 1

קוּץ 
Quwts 
Usage: 22

שׁמר 
Shamar 
Usage: 468

שׁקד 
Shaqad 
Usage: 12

G69
ἀγρυπνέω 
Agrupneo 
Usage: 2

G70
ἀγρυπνία 
Agrupnia 
Usage: 2

γρηγορεύω 
Gregoreuo 
Usage: 6

κουστωδία 
Koustodia 
Usage: 3

νήφω 
Nepho 
be sober , watch
Usage: 6

τηρέω 
Tereo 
Usage: 49

φυλακή 
Phulake 
Usage: 35

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