Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
to awake
Usage: 1) to awake, wake up 1a) (Hiphil) to awaken, arouse, show signs of waking, awake
Quts means “arise” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H6974 קוּץ (quwts) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. quwts (koots) v. 1. to awake (literally or figuratively) [a primitive root (identical with H6972 through the idea of abruptness in starting up from sleep)] It has 22 linked Bible usages across 11 books. Visible English usage signals include awake, sleep, sleepest, and watcheth. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
quwts (koots) v. 1. to awake (literally or figuratively) [a primitive root (identical with H6972 through the idea of abruptness in starting up from sleep)] KJV: arise, (be) (a-)wake, watch. Root(s): H6972 Compare: H3364
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to awake
Usage: 1) to awake, wake up 1a) (Hiphil) to awaken, arouse, show signs of waking, awake
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render quwts, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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22 indexed usages in Old Testament.
So David took the spear and the cruse of water from Saul's bolster; and they gat them away, and no man saw it, nor knew it, neither awaked: for they were all asleep; because a deep sleep from the LORD was fallen upon them.
And Gehazi passed on before them, and laid the staff upon the face of the child; but there was neither voice, nor hearing. Wherefore he went again to meet him, and told him, saying, The child is not awaked.
So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.
First 22 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H6974.
So David took the spear and the cruse of water from Saul's bolster; and they gat them away, and no man saw it, nor knew it, neither awaked: for they were all asleep; because a deep sleep from the LORD was fallen upon them.
And Gehazi passed on before them, and laid the staff upon the face of the child; but there was neither voice, nor hearing. Wherefore he went again to meet him, and told him, saying, The child is not awaked.
So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.
I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained me.
As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.
Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, even unto my cause, my God and my Lord.
Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.
Thou therefore, O LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel, awake to visit all the heathen: be not merciful to any wicked transgressors. Selah.
As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.
If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.
When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.
They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.
Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
It shall even be as when an hungry man dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul hath appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against mount Zion.
Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me.
In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the LORD.
And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.
An end is come, the end is come: it watcheth for thee; behold, it is come.
And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.
Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for booties unto them?
Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H6974, grouped by book.
Quts (Strong's H6974) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "arise". quwts (koots) v. 1. to awake (literally or figuratively) [a primitive root (identical with H6972 through the idea of abruptness in starting up from sleep)]
This page currently indexes 22 linked usages for Strong's H6974 across 11 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H6974 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as awake, sleep, sleepest, and watcheth. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.