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עִיר

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watcher

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Strong’s H5894Noun, masculine3 times in the Aramaic of the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

a watcher2

watchers1

In the text

Daniel 4:13עִיר
As I lay on my bed, I also saw in the visions of my mind a watcher, a holy one, coming down from heaven.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

עִיר n.m. waking, or wakeful, one, i.e. angel

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.