STRONGS NUMBER H3364


Word Summary
yaqats: to awake
Original Word: יָקַץ
Transliteration: yaqats
Phonetic Spelling: (yaw-kats')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to awake
Meaning: to awake
Strong's Concordance
be awaked

A primitive root; to awake (intransitive) -- (be) awake(-d).

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H3364. yaqats

[יָקַץ‎] verb awake (Arabic wake, be awake) —

Qal Imperfect יִקָ֑ץ1 Kings 18:27; וַיִּיקַץGenesis 28:16 3t.; וַיִּקַץJudges 16:20; Psalm 78:65; 1 Kings 3:15 (see Baer); וָאִיקָ֑ץGenesis 41:21; יִָֽקְצוּHabakkuk 2:7; — awake, Genesis 41:4, 7, 21 (E), 1 Kings 3:15; of Baal 18:27; followed by מִשְּׁנָתוֺGenesis 28:16 (J), Judges 16:14, 20; of Noah, מִיֵּינוֺGenesis 9:24 (J), i.e. from drunken sleep; figurative of ׳יPsalm 78:65, i.e. become suddenly active; of enemies Habakkuk 2:7. — See also קיץ

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