To awake
קִיץStrong’s H6974quts
Appears in 21 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Quts is the Hebrew word usually translated “awake”, “awoke” and “awakes”. It appears in 21 verses of the Old Testament.
“And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.”
Meaning
- To awake, wake up(Hiphil) to awaken, arouse, show signs of waking, awake
How it's translated
- they will awake 4
- awake 4
- i awoke 3
- and he awakes 2
- awoke 1
- he has awakened 1
- when awake 1
- and awake 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 7
- Jeremiah 3
- Proverbs 2
- Isaiah 2
- 1 Samuel 1
- 2 Kings 1
11 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Samuel 26:12So David took the spear and the cruse of water from Saul’s bolster; and they gat them away, and no man saw it, nor knew it, neither awaked: for they were all asleep; because a deep sleep from the LORD was fallen upon them.
- 2 Kings 4:31And Gehazi passed on before them, and laid the staff upon the face of the child; but there was neither voice, nor hearing. Wherefore he went again to meet him, and told him, saying, The child is not awaked.
- Job 14:12So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.
- Psalms 3:5I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained me.
- Psalms 17:15As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.
- Psalms 35:23Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, even unto my cause, my God and my Lord.
Hebrew dictionary
קִיץ quts · to awake
1) to awake, wake up 1a) (Hiphil) to awaken, arouse, show signs of waking, awake
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.