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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
wake .
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Examples
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Because, as He says in Psalm 127: 1: “Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.”
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So she opened her chest and gave the old woman the thousand ducats, saying, “Fare thee forth now and come back anon; when my husband waketh, I will get thee the other two hundred dinars from him.”
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Chapter 127 1. Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.
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I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh.
Samuel Ibn Tibbon Robinson, James T. 2006
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Chapter 127 1. Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.
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Upone Crokeham have we set watch, as it is now nine o'clock at night & he waketh not, but lieth as dead still.
The Life of the World to Come Baker, Kage 2004
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Except the LORD build the house, they labor in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.
Psalms 127. 1999
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I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying,
Song of Solomon 5. 1999
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For as was written long ago: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.
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"Except the Lord keep the city, the _Wakeman_ waketh in vain."
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric Cecil Walter Charles Hallett
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