Night of Watching לֵ֣יל שִׁמֻּרִ֥ים

Inspiring Words Knight Vision · Sep 16, 2025 · 3m

We are in chapter twelve of Exodus with our word for today which is actually a phrase. לֵ֣יל שִׁמֻּרִ֥ים night of watching. Since it is only used once in the bible here in our chapter let’s look at both of these words. שִׁמֻּרִים watch, watching. It is used 2 times in the Old Testament, the root שִׁמֻּר is used 468 times. Both times the form of our word is used are in our chapter today. The other word in our phrase is לַ֫יְלָה night. It is used 233 times in the Old Testament. Our word is used most of the time in the literal sense of the time after sunset before sunrise while it is still dark…