kuts · awake

What it means

kuts (קוּץ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “awake”.

To awake, to wake up from sleep.

How to say it

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 to from sleep or death.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• awake ×8
• wake up ×4
• rouse yourself ×3
• I awoke ×2
• awakened ×2
• he awakes ×2
• waking ×1
• woke up ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• 1 Samuel×1
• 2 Kings×1
• Job×1
• Psalms×7
• Proverbs×2
• Isaiah×3
• Jeremiah×3
• Ezekiel×1
• Daniel×1
• Joel×1
• Habakkuk×2

• 1 Samuel 26:12

  David took the spear and the jar of water from Saul’s head, and they went away. No one saw, no one knew, and no one woke up, for all of them were asleep, because a deep sleep from YHWH had fallen upon them.

• 2 Kings 4:31

  Gehazi went on ahead of them and laid the staff on the face of the boy, but there was no sound and no response. He went back to meet him and told him, saying, “The boy has not awakened.”

• Job 14:12

  so a man lies down and does not rise; until the heavens are no more, they will not awake, nor be roused from their sleep.

• Psalms 3:5

  I lay down and slept; I awoke, for YHWH sustains me.

• Psalms 17:15

  As for me, in righteousness I will see your face; I will be satisfied, when I awake, with your form.

• Psalms 35:23

  Wake up and rouse yourself for my right, my Elohim and Adonai, for my case.

• Psalms 44:23

  Wake up! Why do you sleep, Adonai? Rouse yourself! Do not reject us forever.

• Psalms 59:5

  And you, YHWH Elohim Tsevaot, Elohim of Israel, rouse yourself to call to account all the nations; do not show favor to any who act treacherously with wickedness. Selah.

• Psalms 73:20

  Like a dream on waking, Adonai, when you rouse yourself you will despise their image.

• Psalms 139:18

  If I count them, they are more than the sand; I awake, and still I am with you.

• Proverbs 6:22

  When you walk about, it will lead you; when you lie down, it will watch over you; and when you awake, it will talk with you.

• Proverbs 23:35

  “They struck me, I was not hurt; they beat me, I did not feel it. When will I wake up? I will seek it yet again.”

• Isaiah 26:19

  Your dead will live; my corpse, they will rise. Awake and shout for joy, you who dwell in the dust! For your dew is a dew of lights, and the earth will cause to fall the shades.

• Isaiah 29:8

  And it will be as when the hungry man dreams, and look, he is eating, and he awakes, and his soul is empty; and as when the thirsty man dreams, and look, he is drinking, and he awakes, and look, he is faint, and his soul longs; so will be the multitude of all the nations that wage war against Mount Zion.

• Jeremiah 31:26

  At this I awoke and looked, and my sleep was sweet to me.

• Jeremiah 51:39

  In their heat I will set out their feasts and make them drunk, so that they may exult, and sleep an eternal sleep and not wake up, declares YHWH.

• Jeremiah 51:57

  And I will make drunk her princes and her wise men, her governors and her prefects and her mighty men, and they will sleep an eternal sleep and not wake up, declares the King, YHWH Tsevaot is his name.

• Ezekiel 7:6

  An end has come; has come the end; it has awakened against you; look, it is coming!

• Daniel 12:2

  And many of those who sleep in the ground of dust will awake, these to eternal life, and those to reproaches, to eternal horror.

• Joel 1:5

  Wake up, drunkards, and weep; and wail, all who drink wine, over the sweet wine, for it has been cut off from your mouth.

• Habakkuk 2:7

  Will not suddenly rise up those who bite you, and awake those who shake you, and you will be spoil for them?

• Habakkuk 2:19

  Woe to the one who says to the wood, ‘Awake!’ ‘Arise!’ to the mute stone! Will it teach? Look, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in it.

And 1 more times.