Lexical Summary yaqats: to awake Original Word: יָקַץTransliteration: yaqats Phonetic Spelling: (yaw-kats') Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to awake Meaning: to awake Strong's Concordance be awaked A primitive root; to awake (intransitive) -- (be) awake(-d). Brown-Driver-Briggs H3364. yaqats [יָקַץ] verb awake (Arabic wake, be awake) — Qal Imperfect יִקָ֑ץ 1 Kings 18:27; וַיִּיקַץ Genesis 28:16 3t.; וַיִּקַץ Judges 16:20; Psalm 78:65; 1 Kings 3:15 (see Baer); וָאִיקָ֑ץ Genesis 41:21; יִָֽקְצוּ Habakkuk 2:7; — awake, Genesis 41:4, 7, 21 (E), 1 Kings 3:15; of Baal 18:27; followed by מִשְּׁנָתוֺ Genesis 28:16 (J), Judges 16:14, 20; of Noah, מִיֵּינוֺ Genesis 9:24 (J), i.e. from drunken sleep; figurative of ׳י Psalm 78:65, i.e. become suddenly active; of enemies Habakkuk 2:7. — See also קיץ Hiph`il |