יָקַץ yâqats — to awake (intransitive)

pronounced yaw-kats' · Strong's H3364 · 10 occurrences in the Hebrew Bible · 1 stem: Qal (Pa'al)

Translated in the KJV as awake.

a primitive root; to awake (intransitive).

yâqats in each stem

Qal (Pa'al) 10×

Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it

Wayyiqtol 9Imperfect (yiqtol) 1

וַיִּ֥יקֶץ Gen 9:24 Wayyiqtol, 3rd person masculine singular

And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him. (KJV)

וַיִּיקַ֣ץ Gen 28:16 Wayyiqtol, 3rd person masculine singular

And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the Lord is in this place; and I knew it not. (KJV)

וַיִּיקַ֖ץ Gen 41:4 Wayyiqtol, 3rd person masculine singular

And the ill favoured and leanfleshed kine did eat up the seven well favoured and fat kine. So Pharaoh awoke. (KJV)

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 ›

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Morphology from OpenScriptures MorphHB (CC BY 4.0); definitions from Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (public domain); text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex.

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