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# יָקַץ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3364

**awake** — used 11 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

awake [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3364/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יָקַץ: vb. awake [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3364/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. awake (Arabic يَقِظَ wake, be awake)— Impf. יִקָ֑ץ 1 K 18:27; וַיִּיקַץ Gn 28:16 וַיִּיקֶץ Gn 9:24; וַיִּקַץ Ju 16:20 ψ 78:65 1 K 3:15 (v Baer); וָאִיקָ֑ץ Gn 41:21; יִקְֽצוּ Hb 2:7;—awake, Gn 41:4, 7, 21 (E), 1 K 3:15; of Baal 18:27; sq. מִשְּׁנָתוֹ Gn 28:16 (J), Ju 16:14, 20, of Noah, מִיֵּינוֹ Gn 9:24 (J), i. e. from drunken sleep; fig. of י׳ ψ 78:65, i. e. become suddenly active; of enemies Hb 2:7.—Vid. also קיץ Hiph.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 11 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (11 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (8 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: he awoke (8); I awoke (1); he will awake (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 78:65](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.78.65/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.78.65/#tree)

וַיִּקַ֖ץ כְּיָשֵׁ֥ן ׀ אֲדֹנָ֑י כְּ֝גִבּ֗וֹר מִתְרוֹנֵ֥ן מִיָּֽיִן׃

*Word for word:* and he.awoke like a.sleeper Lord \[the\] like a.warrior overcome from wine

*JPS 1917:* Then the Lord awaked as one asleep, like a mighty man recovering from wine.

[Habakkuk 2:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HAB.2.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HAB.2.7/#tree)

הֲל֣וֹא פֶ֗תַע יָק֙וּמוּ֙ נֹשְׁכֶ֔יךָ וְיִקְצ֖וּ מְזַעְזְעֶ֑יךָ וְהָיִ֥יתָ לִמְשִׁסּ֖וֹת לָֽמוֹ׃

*Word for word:* ? not suddenness will.they.arise \[those who\].pay.interest.to.you and will.they.awake? \[those who.will\].make.you.tremble and you.will.become (into) plunder(s) for them

*JPS 1917:* Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall exact interest of thee, and awake that shall violently shake thee, and thou shalt be for booties unto them?

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3364.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3364/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).