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Hebrew verb · H6974

קוּץ

qutskoots

to awake

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

Concordance spelling: qûwts

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6974is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 11 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 19
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H6974

to awake (literally or figuratively)

The King James renders it: arise, (be) (a-) wake, watch.

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

quts is rendered "to awake". It stands 22 times in the Hebrew text, across eleven books.

  • Seven of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Samuel 26:12So David took the spear and water jug by Saul’s head, and they departed. No one saw them or knew about it, nor did anyone wake up; they all remained asleep, because a deep sleep from the LORD had fallen on them.
  • The Greek text spells it nineteen different ways.

The first use

So David took the spear and water jug by Saul’s head, and they departed. No one saw them or knew about it, nor did anyone wake up; they all remained asleep, because a deep sleep from the LORD had fallen on them.

1 Samuel 26:12מֵקִ֗יץ

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

Where the word stands

Seven of the word's twenty-two uses are in Psalms.

The other 28 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

  • awake4
  • they will awake4
  • I awoke3
  • and he awakes2
  • and awake1
  • and you will awake1
  • awoke1
  • from when awakes1
  • he has awakened1
  • it has awakened1
  • wake up1
  • when awake1

and 1 more, 22 uses in all

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.

קוּץqutsto loatheUses9
קוּץqutsto summerUses1

Other numbers on this spelling

Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.

All 22, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

19 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

  • יָקִ֑יצוּ4
  • אָקִ֑יץ1
  • בְ֝הָקִ֗יץ1
  • הֵקִ֖יץ1
  • הֵקִ֣יץ1
  • הָ֝קִ֗יצָה1
  • הָקִ֗יצָה1
  • הָקִ֔יצָה1
  • הָקִ֨יצוּ1
  • הָקִ֤יצוּ1
  • הֱקִיצ֑וֹתִי1
  • הֱ֝קִיצֹ֗תִי1

and 7 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural4HVhi3mp
  • verb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular3HVhp1cs
  • verb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine singular + paragogic he3HVhv2ms/Sh
  • Hc/Vhq3ms2Hc/Vhq3ms
  • preposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)2HR/Vhcc
  • verb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular2HVhp3ms
  • verb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine plural2HVhv2mp
  • Hc/Vhq2ms1Hc/Vhq2ms
  • conjunction (“and”) + verb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine singular + paragogic he1HC/Vhv2ms/Sh
  • verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular1HVhi1cs
  • verb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singular1HVhrmsa

1 Samuel

one use
  • So David took the spear and water jug by Saul’s head, and they departed. No one saw them or knew about it, nor did anyone wake up; they all remained asleep, because a deep sleep from the LORD had fallen on them.

    1 Samuel 26:12

    • מֵקִ֗יץmekitzverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: awoke

2 Kings

one use
  • Gehazi went on ahead of them and laid the staff on the boy’s face, but there was no sound or response. So he went back to meet Elisha and told him, “The boy has not awakened.”

    2 Kings 4:31

    • הֵקִ֖יץhekitzverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has awakened

Job

one use
  • so a man lies down and does not rise. Until the heavens are no more, he will not be awakened or roused from sleep.

    Job 14:12

    • יָקִ֑יצוּyakitzuverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will awake

Psalms

seven uses
  • I lie down and sleep; I wake again, for the LORD sustains me.

    Psalms 3:5

    • הֱקִיצ֑וֹתִיhekitzotiverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I awoke
  • As for me, I will behold Your face in righteousness; when I awake, I will be satisfied in Your presence.

    Psalms 17:15

    • בְ֝הָקִ֗יץvehakitzpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: when awake
  • Awake and rise to my defense, to my cause, my God and my Lord!

    Psalms 35:23

    • וְ֭הָקִיצָהvehakitzahconjunction (“and”) + verb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine singular + paragogic hetagged: and awake
  • Wake up, O Lord! Why are You sleeping? Arise! Do not reject us forever.

    Psalms 44:23

    • הָ֝קִ֗יצָהhakitzahverb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine singular + paragogic hetagged: awake
  • O LORD God of Hosts, the God of Israel, rouse Yourself to punish all the nations; show no mercy to the wicked traitors. Selah

    Psalms 59:5

    • הָקִ֗יצָהhakitzahverb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine singular + paragogic hetagged: awake
  • Like one waking from a dream, so You, O Lord, awaken and despise their form.

    Psalms 73:20

    • מֵהָקִ֑יץmehakitzpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: from when awakes
  • If I were to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand; and when I awake, I am still with You.

    Psalms 139:18

    • הֱ֝קִיצֹ֗תִיhekitzotiverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I awoke

Proverbs

two uses
  • When you walk, they will guide you; when you lie down, they will watch over you; when you awake, they will speak to you.

    Proverbs 6:22

    • וַ֝הֲקִיצ֗וֹתָvahakitzotaHc/Vhq2mstagged: and you will awake
  • “They struck me, but I feel no pain! They beat me, but I did not know it! When can I wake up to search for another drink?”

    Proverbs 23:35

    • אָקִ֑יץʾakitzverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: will I awake

Isaiah

three uses
  • Your dead will live; their bodies will rise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust! For your dew is like the dew of the morning, and the earth will bring forth her dead.

    Isaiah 26:19

    • הָקִ֨יצוּhakitzuverb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: awake
  • as when a hungry man dreams he is eating, then awakens still hungry; as when a thirsty man dreams he is drinking, then awakens faint and parched. So will it be for all the many nations who go to battle against Mount Zion.

    Isaiah 29:8

    • וְהֵקִיץ֮vehekitzHc/Vhq3mstagged: and he awakes
    • וְהֵקִיץ֙vehekitzHc/Vhq3mstagged: and he awakes

Jeremiah

three uses
  • At this I awoke and looked around. My sleep had been most pleasant to me.

    Jeremiah 31:26

    • הֱקִיצֹ֣תִיhekitzotiverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I awoke
  • While they are flushed with heat, I will serve them a feast, and I will make them drunk so that they may revel; then they will fall asleep forever and never wake up, declares the LORD.

    Jeremiah 51:39

    • יָקִ֑יצוּyakitzuverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will awake
  • I will make her princes and wise men drunk, along with her governors, officials, and warriors. Then they will fall asleep forever and not wake up,” declares the King, whose name is the LORD of Hosts.

    Jeremiah 51:57

    • יָקִ֑יצוּyakitzuverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will awake

Ezekiel

one use
  • The end has come! The end has come! It has roused itself against you. Behold, it has come!

    Ezekiel 7:6

    • הֵקִ֣יץhekitzverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it has awakened

Daniel

one use
  • And many who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, but others to shame and everlasting contempt.

    Daniel 12:2

    • יָקִ֑יצוּyakitzuverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will awake

Joel

one use
  • Wake up, you drunkards, and weep; wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it has been cut off from your mouth.

    Joel 1:5

    • הָקִ֤יצוּhakitzuverb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: awake

Habakkuk

one use
  • Woe to him who says to wood, ‘Awake!’ or to silent stone, ‘Arise!’ Can it give guidance? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, yet there is no breath in it at all.”

    Habakkuk 2:19

    • הָקִ֔יצָהhakitzahverb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine singular + paragogic hetagged: wake up

The letters

Gematria 196· 1,006 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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