שומר

From the root שׁ־מ־ר

• שֻׁמַּר:
  • (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ʃuˈmaʁ/
• שׁוֹמֵר:
  • (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ʃoˈmeʁ/
  • (Ashkenazi Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ʃojˈmejr/,
  • (Iraqi Hebrew, Syrian Hebrew, Tiberian Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ʃoˈmer/
  • (Sephardi Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ʃoˈmer/,
  • (Yemenite Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ʃøˈmer/
  • (Biblical Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ʃoːˈmeːr/
  • (Pre-Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ʃoːˈmiru/

שומר / שֻׁמַּר • (šumár) (pu'al construction, active counterpart שימר / שִׁמֵּר)

1. to be preserved, to be conserved
2. to be pickled

שׁוֹמֵר • (šomér) m (plural indefinite שׁוֹמְרִים, singular construct שׁוֹמֵר־, plural construct שׁוֹמְרֵי־)

1. keeper, one who keeps
2. guard, protector, one who protects
   • Tanach, Psalms 121:4:

     הִנֵּה לֹא יָנוּם וְלֹא יִישָׁן שׁוֹמֵר יִשְׂרָאֵל.

     hinnē lō yānūm v'lō yīšān šōmēr yiśrāʾēl.

     Behold, the guardian of Israel neither slumbers nor sleeps.

• שׁוֹמֵר רֹאשׁ (shomér-rósh)
• שׁוֹמֵר שַׁבָּת
• שׁוֹמֵר נְגִיעָה
• שׁוֹמֵר מִצְווֹת

שׁוֹמֵר • (šomér)

1. masculine singular present of שָׁמַר

From Akkadian 𒌑𒄩 (šimru, “fennel”). See Arabic شَمَر (šamar, “fennel”) for other cognates. Largely displaced the native Hebrew synonym גּוּפְנָן (gup̄nān, “fennel”).

שומר / שֻׁמָּר • (šumár) m

1. fennel

• שָׁמִיר (šāmī́r, “dill”)

From the Akkadian 𒋗𒈨𒊒 (Šumer).

שׁוּמֶר • (šumer)

1. Sumer (earliest known civilization of the ancient Near East (4th to 3rd millennia BC), located in lower Mesopotamia)

• (Sumer): (biblical) שִׁנְעָר (šinʿār)

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