ur · stir up, awake

What it means

ur (עוּר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “stir up, awake”.

Wake up, stir up, set in motion.

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 rouse from sleep or inactivity; in prayer, to ask God to act.
2. To move someone to act, as YHWH a king.
3. To wave a weapon threateningly.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

To wake, awake; from there to set in motion, rouse, stir up; with a weapon, to brandish it. BDB: to open the eyes, to wake, literally or figuratively; to rise up.

• “Awake, awake, Deborah!” Judges 5:12
• YHWH stirs up someone's spirit Ezra 1:1Haggai 1:14
• “Awake, my glory”; “put on strength, arm of YHWH” Psalms 57:8Isaiah 51:9
• “That you not awaken nor arouse love” Song of Songs 2:7
• Brandishing the spear; the eagle that stirs up its nest 2 Samuel 23:18Deuteronomy 32:11

How we translate it

“Awake” 17 times, “stirred up” 12 (“YHWH stirred up the spirit of Cyrus”, Ezra 1:1), “rouse” 9, “awaken” 5, “arouse” 3, “brandished” 3 with the spear (2 Samuel 23:18).

How it is translated

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

• awake ×17
• stirred up ×12
• rouse ×9
• awaken ×5
• am stirring up ×3
• arouse ×3
• brandished ×3
• he will stir up ×3
• Wake up ×2
• awakened ×2
• others ×21

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Deuteronomy×1
• Judges×4
• 2 Samuel×1
• 1 Chronicles×3
• 2 Chronicles×2
• Ezra×2
• Job×6
• Psalms×12
• Proverbs×1
• Song of Songs×9
• Isaiah×18
• Jeremiah×6
• Ezekiel×1
• Daniel×2
• Hosea×1
• Joel×3
• Habakkuk×1
• Haggai×1
• Zechariah×5
• Malachi×1

• Deuteronomy 32:11

  Like an eagle that stirs up its nest, that hovers over its young, he spread out his wings, took him, carried him on his pinions.

• Judges 5:12

  Awake, awake, Deborah! Awake, awake, utter a song! Arise, Barak, and lead away your captives, son of Abinoam.

• 2 Samuel 23:18

  Abishai, the brother of Joab, son of Zeruiah, he was head of the three; and he brandished his spear against three hundred slain, and he had a name among the three.

• 1 Chronicles 5:26

  And the Elohim of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria, and he carried them into exile, the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, and brought them to Halah, Habor, Hara, and the river of Gozan, to this day.

• 1 Chronicles 11:11

  And this is the number of the mighty men whom David had: Jashobeam son of Hachmoni, head of the captains; he brandished his spear against three hundred slain at one time.

• 1 Chronicles 11:20

  As for Abishai, the brother of Joab, he was head of the three; and he brandished his spear against three hundred slain, and he had a name among the three.

• 2 Chronicles 21:16

  YHWH stirred up against Joram the spirit of the Philistines and the Arabs who are beside the Cushites.

• 2 Chronicles 36:22

  In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, to fulfill the word of YHWH by the mouth of Jeremiah, YHWH stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, and he sent a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and also in writing, saying,

• Ezra 1:1

  And in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of YHWH from the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, YHWH stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, and he made a proclamation pass throughout all his kingdom, and also in writing, saying:

• Ezra 1:5

  Then the heads of the fathers’ houses of Judah and Benjamin rose up, and the priests and the Levites, everyone whose spirit Elohim had stirred up, to go up to build the house of YHWH which is in Jerusalem.

• Job 3:8

  Let those who curse the day curse it, those who are ready to rouse Leviathan.

• Job 8:6

  if you are pure and upright, surely now he will rouse himself for you and restore the dwelling of your righteousness.

• 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.

• Job 17:8

  The upright are appalled at this, and the innocent rouses himself against the godless.

• Job 31:29

  If I rejoiced at the misfortune of the one who hated me, or exulted when evil found him

• Job 41:10

  No one is so cruel that he would rouse it; and who is he that can take his stand before me?

• Psalms 7:6

  Rise up, YHWH, in your anger; lift yourself up against the rages of my adversaries, and awake for me; you have commanded judgment.

• 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 57:8

  Awake, my glory; awake, harp and lyre; I will awaken the dawn.

• Psalms 59:4

  Without iniquity of mine they run and make ready; awake to meet me, and see.

• Psalms 73:20

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

• Psalms 78:38

  But he, merciful, makes expiation for iniquity and does not destroy; and many times he turned back his anger, and did not stir up all his fury.

• Psalms 80:2

  Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up your might, and come for our salvation.

• Psalms 108:2

  Awake, harp and lyre; I will awaken the dawn.

• Proverbs 10:12

  Hatred stirs up quarrels, but all transgressions love covers.

• Song of Songs 2:7

  I make you swear, daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles or by the does of the field, that you not awaken nor arouse love until it pleases.

• Song of Songs 3:5

  I make you swear, daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles or by the does of the field, that you not awaken nor arouse love until it pleases.

• Song of Songs 4:16

  Awake, north wind, and come, south wind! Blow on my garden, let its balsams flow. Let my beloved come to his garden and eat his choice fruits.

• Song of Songs 5:2

  I was sleeping, but my heart was awake. The voice of my beloved knocking! “Open to me, my sister, my companion, my dove, my perfect one, for my head is filled with dew, my curls with the drops of the night.”

• Song of Songs 8:4

  I make you swear, daughters of Jerusalem, why would you awaken and why arouse love until it pleases?

• Song of Songs 8:5

  Who is this coming up from the wilderness, leaning on her beloved? Under the apple tree I awakened you; there your mother was in labor with you; there she who bore you was in labor.

• Isaiah 10:26

  And YHWH Tsevaot will rouse against him a whip, as the blow on Midian at the rock of Oreb; and his staff will be over the sea, and he will lift it in the manner of Egypt.

• Isaiah 13:17

  Look, I am stirring up against them the Medes, who do not value silver and gold they do not delight in.

• Isaiah 14:9

  Sheol below is stirred up for you to meet your coming; it rouses for you the shades, all the male goats of the earth; it makes rise from their thrones all the kings of the nations.

• Isaiah 15:5

  My heart cries out for Moab; its fugitives as far as Zoar, Eglath-shelishiyah; for the ascent of Luhith, with weeping they go up it; for on the road of Horonaim they raise a cry of shattering.

• Isaiah 41:2

  Who has stirred up from the east the one whom righteousness calls to his feet? He gives up before him nations, and over kings he makes him rule; he makes them like dust to his sword, like stubble driven to his bow.

• Isaiah 41:25

  I have stirred up one from the north, and he has come; from the rising of the sun he will call on my name; and he will come upon officials as upon clay, and as the potter treads mud.

• Isaiah 42:13

  YHWH like a mighty man will go out; like a man of wars he will stir up zeal; he will shout, indeed, he will raise the war cry; against his enemies he will show himself mighty.

• Isaiah 45:13

  I have stirred him up in righteousness, and all his ways I will make straight; he will build my city and let my exiles go, not for a price nor for a bribe,” says YHWH Tsevaot.

And 40 more times.