שָׂקַד
to bind
also: bind on, be kept on fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Stem
- Niphal
- Usually the simple passive or reflexive of the Qal (“he was written”).
Form
- Perfect
- A completed action or state — Hebrew marks aspect (completeness) more than strict tense (“he wrote”).
Person
- 3rd Person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H8244 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Lamentations 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, שקד (sâqad) means “to bind.” With only 1 verse it sits in the long tail of Hebrew Bible vocabulary. Its uses cluster heavily in Lamentations (100% of all occurrences). Scripture uses it exactly once, at Lamentations 1:14. Ranging over 2 senses, its meaning includes “bind on” and “be kept on”. Dig into 1-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H8244 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Lamentations 1 verse 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Is bound 1×
- American Standard Version: Is bound 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Are bound into 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Was bound fast 1×
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
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Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- to bind, bind on, be kept on (meaning doubtful)
- (Niphal) to be kept on
Word origin
[ שָׂקַד ] doubtful vb., bind on;— Niph. La 1:14
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: a primitive root
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
שָׂקַד
- Nif.; cmp. next w.) to bend, twist, plait. —Part. pass. שָׂקוּד; f. שְׂקוּדָה (cmp. שְׁבֶשְׁתָּא) confused, mistaken. Lam. R. to I, 14 (ref. to נשקד, ib.) ש׳ הייתי מעונותי וכ׳ I was in error as to my sins, I thought that he would forgive me all my sins, when I heard that my verdict was torn up.
שָׁקַד
- (b. h; v. קדד) [to bend, be bent; trnsf.] to be bent upon, be intent, studious, anxious; to watch. Lam. R. to I, 14 (ref. to נשקד, v. preced.) שי"ן כתיב ש׳ הקב"ה וכ׳ it is written with Shin, the Lord considered well how to bring the evil upon me (so as not to consume me). Midr. Till. to Ps. CXIX, 9 ששׁוֹקְדִים וכ׳, v. שָׁחַר I. Y. Ber. IV, 7ᵈ אני שׁוֹקֵד והן שׁוֹקְרִין I am industrious (rise early), and so are they; (Bab. ib. 28ᵇ משכים … משכימים). Tosef. ib. VII (VI), 2 כמה אומניות שׁוֹקְדוֹת משכימות וכ׳ how many trades (tradesmen) are anxious, rise early (to sell their goods), and I rise and find all these &c.; Bab. Ber. 58ᵃ כל אומניות שוקדות ובאות וכ׳ (not אומות) all trades are anxious and come to the door of my house &c. Keth. 2ᵃ; 3ᵇ שָׁקְדוּ … על בנות וכ׳ the scholars were considerate towards the daughters of Israel (in ordaining weddings to be held on the fourth day of the week), in order that a man may make preparations &c. Ib. 3ᵃ bot. הא בעינן שקדו but (how may weddings take place any day of the week?) must we not consider shaḳ’du (the scholars’ institution for the honor of woman)?; a. e.—Part. pass. שָׁקוּד anxious, industrious, conscientious. Ab. II, 14 הוי ש׳ ללמוד וכ׳ be anxious to learn the Law. Keth. 43ᵇ ש׳ אמרה the industrious scholar said it; ש׳ מנו שמואל who is meant by shaḳud? Samuel. Y. Ned. VIII, 40ᵈ bot. ולא עמד שׁוֹקֵד וכ׳ and no conscientious student arose, until (R.) Jeremiah arose; Y. Kidd. III, 64ᶜ top שָׁקֵד.
שְׁקַד
- , to watch, be anxious, careful. Targ. Ps. CII, 8. Targ. Prov. VIII, 34.
- to be anxious, wait for an opportunity. Snh. 14ᵃ הוה קא מִשְׁתְּקֵיד ר׳ וכ׳ (Ms. M. מִשְׁתְּקַד) R. J. was anxious to ordain them; Yalk. Sam. 96.
שָׁקֵד I
- industrious, anxious, v. שָׁקַד.
שָׁקֵד II
- (b. h.) almond-tree, almond. Gen. R. s. 42. Koh. R. to XII, 7 (ref. to Jer. I, 11) מה הש׳ הזה משעה וכ׳ as the almond-tree takes twenty-one days from the time it blossoms to mature its fruit &c.; Lam. R. introd. (R. Josh. 2); a. fr.—Pl. שְׁקֵדִים, שְׁקֵדִין, שְׁקֵי׳. Maasr. I, 4 ש׳ המרים bitter almonds. Y. Orl. III, 63ᵇ top שְׁקֵידֵי פרך soft-shell almonds (v. פֶּרֶךְ); a. e. e.g. Jeremiah 1:11
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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