Bible Lexicons

2872) dqs (סהקד ShQD) AC: Watch CO: Eye AB: ?: Eyes open wide for watching carefully. [from: os]

V) dqs (סהקד ShQD) - Watch: To be alert and watchful. KJV (18): (vf: Pual, Participle) watch, wake, remain, hasten, almond - Strongs: H8245 (שָׁקַד), H8246 (מְשֻׁקָּד)

N^m) dqs (סהקד ShQD) - Almond: From its shape like an open eye. The nut or the tree. KJV (4): almond - Strongs: H8247 (שָׁקֵד)

 שָׁקֵד noun [masculine] almond (-tree) (Late Hebrew id.; so called from its early waking out of winter's sleep, according to Ki Thes Lag ^{BN 45} and others; Aramaic שִׁיגְדָּא, , , whence Ethiopic compare Nö ^{M 39}; compare Löw ^{No. 319}); —

1 almond, i.e. the nut, plural שְׁקֵדִים Genesis 43:11 (J; +בָּטְנִים, etc.), Numbers 17:23 (P).

2 almond-tree Jeremiah 1:11 and (probably) Ecclesiastes 12:5.

שָׁקֵד m

(1)  the almond tree; so called because of all trees it is the first to arouse and awake from the sleep of winter, Jeremiah 1:11 (where allusion is made to the signification of haste and ardour, which there is in this root).

(2) an almond, the nut of the almond, Genesis 43:11 Numbers 17:23 Ecclesiastes 12:5, יָנֵאץ שָׁקֵד “the almond is rejected” (by the old man who has no teeth), although really a delicate and delicious fruit. Others incorrectly, “the almond flourishes,” which they refer to whiteness of hair; but the flower of the almond is not hoary, but rose-coloured. See Cels. Hierob. i. p. 297.

הַשָּׁקֵד֙ השקד וּשְׁקֵדִֽים׃ ושקדים׃ שְׁקֵדִֽים׃ שָׁקֵ֖ד שקד שקדים׃ haš·šā·qêḏ hashshaKed haššāqêḏ šā·qêḏ šāqêḏ šə·qê·ḏîm šəqêḏîm shaKed shekeDim ū·šə·qê·ḏîm ūšəqêḏîm ushekeDim