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# watchman

«watchman» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **a person paid to stay awake and guard a building or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (watchmen)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A watchman is a person paid to stay awake and guard a building or street at night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/watchman/#m1)

2) An old watchman was also someone who called out the time of night in a town. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/watchman/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: A watchman stood on a wall or tower to see danger or messengers coming and call out. The prophets are also called watchmen. Interpretation: Ezekiel is made a watchman for Israel, and tradition teaches that a leader must warn people of wrongdoing. Isaiah's watchman is read as a picture of waiting for the night of exile to end. In the primary lessons: the old night guard of a town, who walks the streets and calls out the hour

### examples

- And the watchman cried, and told the king. (Prophets 2SA.18.25, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/watchman/#x1)
- One calleth unto me out of Seir: 'Watchman, what of the night? (Prophets ISA.21.11, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/watchman/#x2)
- For thus hath the Lord said unto me: Go, set a watchman; let him declare what he seeth! (Prophets ISA.21.6, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/watchman/#x3)
- Why, at the old watchman's house. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/watchman/#x4)
- So then the watchman was again watchman. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/watchman/#x5)
- «What's the hour, watchman?» asked a passer-by. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/watchman/#x6)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [And the watchman cried, and told the king.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.537/)
- [He smote the Philistines unto Gaza and the borders thereof, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.557/)
- [For thus hath the Lord said unto me: Go, set a watchman; let him declare what he seeth!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.424/)
- [One calleth unto me out of Seir: 'Watchman, what of the night?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.431/)
- [Watchman, what of the night?'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.432/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «watchman» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/watchman/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.