sha.qad denotes sustained, attentive oversight, whether guarding people or keeping watch toward an intended outcome.

The attested use centers on sustained oversight: people are told to guard entrusted items, a listener keeps watch at doors, and the LORD is described as watching over both announced action and distress. The same vigilance can be directed toward hostile purposes or toward a city, as in Isaiah 29:20 and Jeremiah 5:6; Psalm 102:8 does not make the term's specific contribution clear in the supplied translation.

1. Sustained oversight or vigilant attention · dominant

   Across the attested clauses, the term marks continued attention directed toward something or someone. In Ezra 8:29 the Qal imperative addresses guardians of valuables until they are weighed; in Jeremiah 1:12 the Qal active participle describes the LORD's attention to his word for fulfillment, while Jeremiah 31:28 places two listed forms with actions of uprooting, harming, building, and planting. In Daniel 9:14, Jeremiah 44:27, and Proverbs 8:34, the APB renders the surrounding clauses with "watched over," "watching over," and "watching at my doors day by day."

   Ezra 8:29Daniel 9:14Jeremiah 1:12Jeremiah 31:28Jeremiah 44:27Proverbs 8:34

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly presents the surrounding clauses with forms of "watch," including "watched over," "watching over," and "watching at my doors day by day." It also uses "guard," "keep," and "watch is kept" in related clauses; These are contextual presentations rather than fixed equivalent renderings.