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Hebrew verb · H3364

יָקַץ

yaqatsyaw-kats'

to awake

11 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: yâqats

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3364is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 5 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 11
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H3364

to awake (intransitive)

The King James renders it: (be) awake(-d).

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

yaqats is rendered "to awake". It stands 11 times in the Hebrew text, across five books.

  • Five of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 9:24When Noah awoke from his drunkenness and learned what his youngest son had done to him,
  • The Greek text spells it eleven different ways.

The first use

When Noah awoke from his drunkenness and learned what his youngest son had done to him,

Genesis 9:24וַיִּ֥יקֶץ

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Five of the word's eleven uses are in Genesis.

The other 34 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • and he awoke8
  • and I awoke1
  • and may they awake1
  • so he may awake1

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

יָקַרyaqarbe preciousUses11
יָקַדyaqadto burnUses9
יָקַעyaqato dislocate/hangUses8

All 11, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

11 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • וָאִיקָֽץ׃1
  • וַיִּ֥יקֶץ1
  • וַיִּיקַ֣ץ1
  • וַיִּיקַ֖ץ1
  • וַיִּיקַ֥ץ1
  • וַיִּיקַץ֙1
  • וַיִּקַ֖ץ1
  • וַיִּקַ֣ץ1
  • וַיִּקַ֥ץ1
  • וְיִקָֽץ׃1
  • וְיִקְצ֖וּ1

The grammar of each form

  • Hc/Vqw3ms8Hc/Vqw3ms
  • HC/Vqu3mp1HC/Vqu3mp
  • HC/Vqu3ms1HC/Vqu3ms
  • Hc/Vqw1cs1Hc/Vqw1cs

Genesis

five uses
  • When Noah awoke from his drunkenness and learned what his youngest son had done to him,

    Genesis 9:24

    • וַיִּ֥יקֶץvaiyiketzHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he awoke
  • When Jacob woke up, he thought, “Surely the LORD is in this place, and I was unaware of it.”

    Genesis 28:16

    • וַיִּיקַ֣ץvaiyikatzHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he awoke
  • And the cows that were sickly and thin devoured the seven sleek, well-fed cows. Then Pharaoh woke up,

    Genesis 41:4

    • וַיִּיקַ֖ץvaiyikatzHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he awoke
  • And the thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven plump, ripe ones. Then Pharaoh awoke and realized it was a dream.

    Genesis 41:7

    • וַיִּיקַ֥ץvaiyikatzHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he awoke
  • When they had devoured them, however, no one could tell that they had done so; their appearance was as ugly as it had been before. Then I awoke.

    Genesis 41:21

    • וָאִיקָֽץ׃vaikatzHc/Vqw1cstagged: and I awoke

Judges

two uses
  • So while he slept, Delilah took the seven braids of his hair and wove them into the web. Then she tightened it with a pin and called to him, “Samson, the Philistines are here!” But he awoke from his sleep and pulled out the pin with the loom and the web.

    Judges 16:14

    • וַיִּיקַץ֙vaiyikatzHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he awoke
  • Then she called out, “Samson, the Philistines are here!” When Samson awoke from his sleep, he thought, “I will escape as I did before and shake myself free.” But he did not know that the LORD had departed from him.

    Judges 16:20

    • וַיִּקַ֣ץvaiyikatzHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he awoke

1 Kings

two uses
  • Then Solomon awoke, and indeed it had been a dream. So he returned to Jerusalem, stood before the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. Then he held a feast for all his servants.

    1 Kings 3:15

    • וַיִּקַ֥ץvaiyikatzHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he awoke
  • At noon Elijah began to taunt them, saying, “Shout louder, for he is a god! Perhaps he is deep in thought, or occupied, or on a journey. Perhaps he is sleeping and must be awakened!”

    1 Kings 18:27

    • וְיִקָֽץ׃veyikatzHC/Vqu3mstagged: so he may awake

Psalms

one use
  • Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, like a mighty warrior overcome by wine.

    Psalms 78:65

    • וַיִּקַ֖ץvaiyikatzHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he awoke

Habakkuk

one use
  • Will not your creditors suddenly arise and those who disturb you awaken? Then you will become their prey.

    Habakkuk 2:7

    • וְיִקְצ֖וּveyiktzuHC/Vqu3mptagged: and may they awake

The letters

Gematria 200· 1,010 mispar gadol

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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