To rise
שָׁכַםStrong’s H7925shakham (sha-kham)
Appears in 64 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shakham is the Hebrew word usually translated “rose early”, “rising early” and “rise early”. It appears in 64 verses of the Old Testament.
“And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant’s house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night.”
Meaning
- To rise or start early(Hiphil)
How it's translated
- and he rose early 22
- and they rose early 16
- rising early 15
- rise early 5
- and you will rise early 3
- you will rise early 1
- let us rise early 1
- and rising early 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 11
- 1 Samuel 9
- Genesis 8
- Judges 8
- Joshua 6
- Exodus 5
17 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 19:27And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the LORD:
- Genesis 20:8Therefore Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and told all these things in their ears: and the men were sore afraid.
- Genesis 21:14And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.
- Genesis 22:3And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.
- Genesis 26:31And they rose up betimes in the morning, and sware one to another: and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.
- Genesis 28:18And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it.
All 64 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
שָׁכַם shakham · to rise
1) to rise or start early 1a) (Hiphil) 1a1) to rise early, make an early start 1a2) early (as adverb)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “rise” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
RISE, verb intransitive
rize. preterit tense rose; participle passive risen; pronoun rose, rizn. [See Raise.]
- To move to pass upward in any manner; to ascend; as, a fog rises from a river or from low ground; a fish rises in water; fowls rise in the air; clouds rise from the horizon towards the meridian; a balloon rises above the clouds.
- To get up; to leave the place of sleep or rest; as, to rise from bed.
- To get up or move from any recumbent to an erect posture; as, to rise after a fall.
- To get up from a seat; to leave a sitting posture; as, to rise from a sofa or chair.
All definitions and other forms of “rise”
- To spring; to grow; as a plant; hence, to be high or tall.
- To swell in quantity or extent; to be more elevated; as, a river rises after a rain.
- To break forth; to appear; as, a boil rises on the skin.
- To appear above the horizon; to shine; as, the sun or a star rises.“He maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good” Matthew 5:45
- To begin to exist; to originate; to come into being or notice.
- To be excited; to begin to move or act; as, the wind rose at 12 o'clock.
- To increase in violence.
- To appear in view; as, to rise up to the reader's view.
- To appear in sight; also, to appear more elevated; as in sailing towards a shore, the land rises.
- To change a station; to leave a place; as, to rise from a siege.
- To spring; to be excited or produced.
- To gain elevation in rank, fortune or public estimation; to be promoted.“When the wicked rise men hide themselves” Proverbs 28:28
- To break forth into public commotions; to make open opposition to government; or to assemble and oppose government; or to assemble in arms for attacking another nation.
- To be excited or roused into action.“RISE up to the battle” Jeremiah 49:14
- To make a hostile attack; as when a man riseth against his neighbor.
- To increase; to swell; to grow more or greater.
- To be improved; to recover from depression; as, a family may rise after misfortune to opulence and splendor.
- To elevate the style or manner; as, to rise in force of expression; to rise in eloquence.
- To be revived from death.“The dead in Christ shall rise first” 1 Thessalonians 4:16
- To come by chance.
- To ascend; to be elevated above the level or surface; as, the ground rises gradually one hundred yards.
- To proceed from.“A scepter shall rise out of Israel” Numbers 24:17
- To have its sources in.
- To be moved, roused, excited, kindled or inflamed, as passion.
- To ascend in the diatonic scale; as, to rise a tone or semitone.
- To amount.
- To close a session.
RISE, noun
rise
- The act of rising, either in a literal or figurative sense; ascent; as the rise of vapor in the air; the rise of mercury in the barometer; the rise of water in a river.
- The act of springing or mounting from the ground; as the rise of the feet in leaping.
- Ascent; elevation, or degree of ascent; as the rise of a hill or mountain.
- Spring; source; origin; as the rise of a stream in a mountain.
- Any place elevated above the common level; as a rise of land.
- Appearance above the horizon; as the rise of the sun or a star.
- Increase; advance; as a rise in the price of wheat.
- Advance in rank, honor, property or fame.
- Increase of sound on the same key; a swelling of the voice.
- Elevation or ascent of the voice in the diatonic scale; as a rise of a tone or semitone.
- Increase; augmentation.
- A bough or branch. [Not in use.]
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.