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title: שְׁמֻרָה — eye-lid · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שְׁמֻרָה (8109), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: eye-lid. BDB 1906: n.f. eye-lid. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שְׁמֻרָה

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«שְׁמֻרָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **eye-lid** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 8109 · **BDB:** שְׁמֻרָה

### Glosses

the.eyelids (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

eye-lid [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8109/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. eye-lid [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8109/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. eye-lid (from its guarding the eye);—pl. cstr. שְׁמֻרוֹת עֵינָ֑י ψ 77:5.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «שְׁמֻרָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8109/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 77:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.77.5/)

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אָ֭חַזְתָּ שְׁמֻר֣וֹת עֵינָ֑י נִ֝פְעַ֗מְתִּי וְלֹ֣א אֲדַבֵּֽר׃

*Word for word:* you.held the.eyelids my.eyes my I.was.troubled and not I.spoke

*JPS 1917:* Thou holdest fast the lids of mine eyes; I am troubled, and cannot speak.

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