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יָקַץ

yakats · wake up

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H3364 · appears 10 times in the Bible

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What it means

yakats (יָקַץ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “wake up”.

Awake.

How to say it

ya·kats

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

  1. To come out of sleep and become aware again of what is going on.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

  • awoke ×5
  • woke up ×4
  • must wake up ×1

Related words

Words that come from it

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

  • Genesis 9:24

    And Noah awoke from his wine and knew what his youngest son had done to him.

  • Genesis 28:16

    Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, “Surely YHWH is in this place, and I did not know it.”

  • Genesis 41:4

    The cows ugly in appearance and thin in flesh ate up the seven cows beautiful in appearance and fat. Then Pharaoh woke up.

  • Genesis 41:7

    The thin ears swallowed the seven plump and full ears. Then Pharaoh woke up, and look, it was a dream.

  • Genesis 41:21

    They went into their bellies, but it could not be known that they had gone into their bellies, and their appearance was ugly just as at the beginning. Then I woke up.

  • Judges 16:14

    And she fastened it with the pin and said to him, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” And he awoke from his sleep and pulled out the pin of the loom and the warp.

  • Judges 16:20

    And she said, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” And he awoke from his sleep and said, “I will go out as at other times and shake myself free.” But he did not know that YHWH had left him.

  • 1 Kings 3:15

    And Solomon woke up, and he saw that it was a dream. And he came to Jerusalem and stood before the ark of the covenant of Adonai, and offered burnt offerings and offered peace offerings, and made a feast for all his servants.

  • 1 Kings 18:27

    And it happened at noon that Elijah mocked them and said, “Call out with a loud voice, for he is a god! Perhaps he is musing, or he has stepped aside, or he is on a journey; perhaps he is asleep and must wake up.”

  • Psalms 78:65

    And Adonai awoke like one who sleeps, like a mighty man shouting because of wine.