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    Ward

    WORD

    Meaning

    Guardian; Watchman

    English origin · Boy

    What it points to

    Ward watches the walls — never silent, never sleeping, the watchman set by God over the house of Israel day and night.

    Verses · King James Version

    “I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night.”

    Isaiah 62:6

    “So thou, O son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the house of Israel.”

    Ezekiel 33:7

    Most used in the 1890s (US records)

    biblesundays.com · King James Version

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