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שְׁמֻרָה

she.mu.rah

waking

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Strong’s H8109Noun, feminine1 time in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

the eyelids of1

In the text

Psalm 77:4שְׁמֻרוֹת
You have kept my eyes from closing; I am too troubled to speak.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[שְׁמֻרָה] n.f. eye-lid (from its guarding the eye);—pl. cstr. ψ 77:5.

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.