1. (v. i.) Abstinence from sleep, whether at a time when sleep is customary or not; the act of keeping awake, or the state of being awake, or the state of being awake; sleeplessness; wakefulness; watch.

2. (v. i.) Hence, devotional watching; waking for prayer, or other religious exercises.

3. (v. i.) Originally, the watch kept on the night before a feast.

4. (v. i.) Later, the day and the night preceding a feast.

5. (n.) A religious service performed in the evening preceding a feast.

8107. shimmur -- a watching, vigil
... 8106, 8107. shimmur. 8108 . a watching, vigil. Transliteration: shimmur
Phonetic Spelling: (shim-moor') Short Definition: observed. ...
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Herdsmen Keeping Lonely vigil
... HYMNS OF THE EARLY CHURCH Herdsmen keeping lonely vigil. 8,7,8,7,7,7. Herdsmen
keeping lonely vigil. While the earth in slumber lay; ...
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The Reason Why a vigil is Appointed as the Sabbath Day Dawns, and ...
... Chapter IX. The reason why a Vigil is appointed as the Sabbath day dawns, and why
a dispensation from fasting is enjoyed on the Sabbath all through the East. ...
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Of the vigil Service which is Celebrated on the Evening Preceding ...
... Chapter VIII. Of the Vigil service which is celebrated on the evening preceding
the Sabbath; of its length, and the manner in which it is observed. ...
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Vigil. SM Morning Song.
... 53 Vigil. SM Morning Song. Morning Song. (1169) See how the morning sun
Pursues his shining way; And wide proclaims his Maker's ...
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(On the Lord's Resurrection, I. ; Delivered on Holy Saturday in ...
... Sermons. Sermon LXXI. (On the Lord's Resurrection, I.; delivered on Holy Saturday
in the Vigil of Easter .). (On the Lord's Resurrection ...
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How He Received an Embassy from the Persians and Kept the Night ...
... Book IV. Chapter LVII."How he received an Embassy from the Persians and
kept the Night Vigil with others at the Feast of Easter. ...
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Blessed be He who Became Beyond Measure Low, that He Might Make us ...
... 2. Let us not count our vigil like vigils of every day."His feast, its reward, exceeds
an hundredfold."For this feast makes war, on sleep by its vigil ...
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To Brother Matteo Di Francesco Tolomei of the Order of the ...
... Therefore says the Scripture that they shut them in the house, and stayed there
in vigil and continual prayers; they stayed ten days, and then came the Holy ...
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Acts xvi. 25, 26
... of their lives, were thrust into the inner prison, and set fast in the stocks: and
for all this they did not suffer themselves to sleep, but kept vigil all the ...
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One Hank Over for the Candle.
... When night came she rose, lit a candle, put it in the window, drew up her
spinning-wheel, and began her night vigil for the unknown out at sea. ...
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Vigil (2 Occurrences)
... Multi-Version Concordance Vigil (2 Occurrences). Exodus 12:42 It is a night to be
much observed to Yahweh for bringing them out from the land of Egypt. ...
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Watch (203 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) The act of watching; forbearance of sleep; vigil; wakeful, vigilant, or
constantly observant attention; close observation; guard; preservative or ...
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Views (1 Occurrence)

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Vigilance (1 Occurrence)

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Wake (34 Occurrences)
... state of being awake. 11. (n.) The state of forbearing sleep, especially
for solemn or festive purposes; a vigil. 12. (n.) An annual ...
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Gibeah (52 Occurrences)
... exposed the bodies of the seven sons of Saul, slain by David's orders, to appease
the Gibeonites, furnishing the occasion for Rizpah's pathetic vigil (2 Samuel ...
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