עוּר ʻûwr — to wake (literally or figuratively)
Translated in the KJV as wake(-n, up), lift up, × master, raise, stir up.
a primitive root (rather identical with through the idea of opening the eyes); to wake (literally or figuratively).
ʻûwr in each stem
Hiph'il
Imperfect (yiqtol) 10Perfect (qatal) 7Participle (active) 6Wayyiqtol 4Imperative 2Cohortative 2Infinitive construct 1Jussive 1
As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings:
And the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgath–pilneser king of Assyria, and he carried them away, even the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, and brought them unto Halah, and Habor, and Hara, and to the river Gozan, unto this day.
Moreover the Lord stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines, and of the Arabians, that were near the Ethiopians:
Qal (Pa'al)
Imperative 18Participle (active) 2Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
Awake, awake, Deborah: awake, awake, utter a song: arise, Barak, and lead thy captivity captive, thou son of Abinoam.
Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?
So shall the congregation of the people compass thee about: for their sakes therefore return thou on high.
Polel
Perfect (qatal) 5Imperfect (yiqtol) 5Sequential perfect (weqatal) 2Infinitive construct 1Imperative 1
And Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief among three. And he lifted up his spear against three hundred, and slew them, and had the name among three.
And this is the number of the mighty men whom David had; Jashobeam, an Hachmonite, the chief of the captains: he lifted up his spear against three hundred slain by him at one time.
And Abishai the brother of Joab, he was chief of the three: for lifting up his spear against three hundred, he slew them, and had a name among the three.
Niph'al
Imperfect (yiqtol) 5Jussive 1Perfect (qatal) 1
So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.
Thus saith the Lord, Behold, a people cometh from the north country, and a great nation shall be raised from the sides of the earth.
Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Behold, evil shall go forth from nation to nation, and a great whirlwind shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth.
Hitpolel
Imperative 2Imperfect (yiqtol) 1Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1Participle (active) 1
Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.
If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:
Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the Lord the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›