WATCHMAN

WATCHMAN. → (A sentinel) → On the walls of cities So 3:3; 5:7 → Of Jerusalem 2Sa 13:34; 18:24,25; Ne 4:9; 7:3; Isa 52:8; 62:6 → Of Babylon Jer 51:12 → On towers 2Ki 9:17; 2Ch 20:24; Isa 21:5-12; Jer 31:6 → At the gates of the temple 2Ki 11:6,7 → Alarm of, given by trumpets Eze 33:3-6 → Unfaithfulness in the discharge of duty of, punished by death Eze 33:6; Mt 28:14; Ac 12:19

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watchman. Watchman, n. a night-guard, guard, sentinel

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Watch″man (?), n.; pl. Watchmen (�). 1. 1. One set to watch; a person who keeps guard; a guard; a sentinel.
2. 2. Specifically, one who guards a building, or the streets of a city, by night.
Watchman beetle (Zoöl.), the European dor. — Watchman's clock, a watchman's detector in which the apparatus for recording the times of visiting several stations is contained within a single clock. — Watchman's detector, or Watchman's time detector, an apparatus for recording the time when a watchman visits a station on his rounds. — Watchman's rattle, an instrument having at the end of a handle a revolving arm, which, by the action of a strong spring upon cogs, produces, when in motion, a loud, harsh, rattling sound.