יָקַץ
to awake
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Stem
- Qal
- The basic, simple active stem — the plain form of the verb (“he wrote”).
Form
- Sequential Imperfect
- An imperfect with prefixed waw — the standard past-narrative form (waw-consecutive imperfect).
- Imperfect
- An incomplete, ongoing, or future action (“he will / would write”).
Person
- 3rd Person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 1st Person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Common
- Either gender — not distinguished for this form.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H3364 appears in the Book of 1 Kings — 2 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
1 Kings
- 1 Kings 3:15 וַ/יִּקַ֥ץ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Solomon awoke; and, behold, it was a dream: and he came to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, and offered up burnt offerings, and offered peace-offerings, and made a feast to all his servants.
- 1 Kings 18:27 וְ/יִקָֽץ conj + Qal impf 3ms It happened at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud; for he is a god: either he is musing, or he is gone aside, or he is on a journey, or peradventure he sleeps and must be awakened.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
יקץ — transliterated yâqats — is a Hebrew verb carrying the sense “to awake.” Its uses cluster heavily in Genesis (50% of all occurrences). Spanning 10 verses in 4 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Hebrew Bible. Its earliest occurrence is Genesis 9:24. See the sense tree, 10-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H3364 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 10
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 10 distinct verses.
- 4 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 4 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,342
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,342 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 10 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 10 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 5 verses · 50%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 4 verses · 40%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 10%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Awoke 4×, Awaked 2×
- American Standard Version: Awoke 4×, Awaked 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Awoke 5×, Woke up 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Then 4×, Woke up 4×, And 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H3364 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H3364 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H3364 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H3364 across 16 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- (Qal) to awake, awaken, become active
Word origin
Origin: a primitive root
Forms in the corpus
The 10 distinct written forms H3364 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that stem’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| וְ/יִקָֽץ | Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | 1 Kings 18:27 | 1 |
| וַ/יִּ֥יקֶץ | Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | Genesis 9:24 | 1 |
| וַ/יִּיקַ֖ץ | Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | Genesis 41:4 | 1 |
| וַ/יִּיקַ֣ץ | Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | Genesis 28:16 | 1 |
| וַ/יִּיקַ֥ץ | Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | Genesis 41:7 | 1 |
| וַ/יִּיקַץ֙ | Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | Judges 16:14 | 1 |
| וַ/יִּקַ֖ץ | Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | Psalms 78:65 | 1 |
| וַ/יִּקַ֣ץ | Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | Judges 16:20 | 1 |
| וַ/יִּקַ֥ץ | Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | 1 Kings 3:15 | 1 |
| וָ/אִיקָֽץ | Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 1st Person, Common, Singular | Genesis 41:21 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 9 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 10 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
