יָקַץ yaqats

Hebrew word for “to awake” · Strong’s H3364 · used 11 times in 11 verses

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Meaning

(Qal) to awake, awaken, become active

How it is translated

Glosses given for yaqats in context, with how often each is used:

• awoke 9
• may awake 1
• may they awake? 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Genesis 41 (3), Judges 16 (2), Genesis 9 (1), Genesis 28 (1), 1 Kings 3 (1), 1 Kings 18 (1), Psalms 78 (1), Habakkuk 2 (1)

Forms

• וייקץ 5
• ויקץ 4
• ואיקץ 1
• ויקצו 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with yaqats more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• שֵׁנָה shenah “sleep” 3
• יָשֵׁן yashen “sleeping” 2
• דַּק daq “thin” 2
• בָּרִיא bari “fat” 2
• יָדַע yada “to know” 4
• שִׁמְשׁוֹן shimshon “Samson” 2
• חֲלוֹם chalom “dream” 2
• מַרְאֶה mareh “appearance” 2
• יַיִן yayin “wine” 2
• פַּרְעֹה paroh “Pharaoh” 2
• פְּלִשְׁתִּי pelishti “Philistine” 2
• שֶׁבַע sheva “seven” 2

Key verses

The verses using yaqats that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Genesis 9:24 — And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him.
• Genesis 28:16 — And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the LORD is in this place; and I knew it not.
• Genesis 41:4 — And the ill favoured and leanfleshed kine did eat up the seven well favoured and fat kine. So Pharaoh awoke.
• Genesis 41:7 — And the seven thin ears devoured the seven rank and full ears. And Pharaoh awoke, and, behold, it was a dream.
• Genesis 41:21 — And when they had eaten them up, it could not be known that they had eaten them; but they were still ill favoured, as at the beginning. So I awoke.
• Judges 16:14 — And she fastened it with the pin, and said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awaked out of his sleep, and went away with the pin of the…
• Judges 16:20 — And she said, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself. And he…
• 1 Kings 3:15 — And Solomon awoke; and, behold, it was a dream. And he came to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and offered up burnt offerings,…
• 1 Kings 18:27 — And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud: for he is a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or…
• Psalms 78:65 — Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.
• Habakkuk 2:7 — Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for booties unto them?

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.