To awake
יָקַץStrong’s H3364yaqats (ya-qats)
Appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Yaqats is the Hebrew word usually translated “awoke”, “so he may awake” and “may they awake”. It appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him.”
Meaning
- (Qal) to awake, awaken, become active
How it's translated
- and he awoke 8
- and i awoke 1
- so he may awake 1
- and may they awake 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 5
- Judges 2
- 1 Kings 2
- Psalms 1
- Habakkuk 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 28:16And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the LORD is in this place; and I knew it not.
- Genesis 41:4And the ill favoured and leanfleshed kine did eat up the seven well favoured and fat kine. So Pharaoh awoke.
- Genesis 41:7And the seven thin ears devoured the seven rank and full ears. And Pharaoh awoke, and, behold, it was a dream.
- Genesis 41:21And when they had eaten them up, it could not be known that they had eaten them; but they were still ill favoured, as at the beginning. So I awoke.
- Judges 16:14And she fastened it with the pin, and said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awaked out of his sleep, and went away with the pin of the beam, and with the web.
- Judges 16:20And she said, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself. And he wist not that the LORD was departed from him.
Hebrew dictionary
יָקַץ yaqats · to awake
(Qal) to awake, awaken, become active
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “awake” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
AWA'KE, verb transitive
preterit tense awoke, awaked; participle passive awaked. [The Latin vigilo seems to be formed on this root. See Wake.]
- To rouse from asleep.“I go that I may awake him out of sleep” John 11:11
- To excite from a state resembling sleep, as from death, stupidity or inaction; to put into action, or new life; as, to awake the dead; to awake the dormant faculties.
All definitions and other forms of “awake”
AWA'KE, verb intransitive
- To cease to sleep; to come from a state of natural sleep.“Jacob awaked out of sleep” Genesis 28:16
- To bestir, revive or rouse from a state of inaction; to be invigorated with new life; as, the mind awakes from its stupidity.“Awake, O sword, against my shepherd” Zechariah 13:7
- To rouse from spiritual sleep.“Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light” Ephesians 5:14“Awake to righteousness” 1 Corinthians 15:34
- To rise from the dead. Job 14:12
AWA'KE, adjective
Not sleeping; in a state of vigilance or action.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.