Lexical Summary quts: arise, be awake, watch Original Word: קוּץTransliteration: quts Phonetic Spelling: (koots) Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: arise, be awake, watch Meaning: arise, be awake, watch Strong's Concordance arise, be awake, watch A primitive root (identical with quwts through the idea of abruptness in starting up from sleep (compare yaqats)); to awake (literally or figuratively) -- arise, (be) (a-)wake, watch. see HEBREW quwts see HEBREW yaqats Brown-Driver-Briggs H6974. quts I. [קִיץ] verb Hiph`il awake ("" form of יקץ; Late Hebrew in Hiph`il (rare)); — Perfect3masculine singular הֵקִיץ 2 Kings 4:31; Ezekiel 7:6; 2masculine singular וַהֲקיצ֫וֺתָ consecutive Proverbs 6:22, etc.; Imperfect1singular אָקִיץ 23:35; 3masculine plural יָקִ֫יצוּ Jeremiah 51:39 +; Imperative masculine singular הָקִ֫יצָה Habakkuk 2:19 +; masculine plural הָקִ֫יצוּ Isaiah 26:19; Joel 1:5; Infinitive construct הָקִיץ Psalm 17:15; 73:20; Participle מֵקִיץ 1 Samuel 26:12; — shew signs of waking, awake: 1 from sleep, a. 1 Samuel 26:12; Isaiah 29:8 (twice in verse); Psalm 3:6; 73:20; 139:18; Proverbs 6:22 (doubtful line, see Toy). b. of ׳י Psalm 44:24 awake [from sleep] to activity, so 35:23 (with ל of thing), 59:6 (c. infinitive purpose). c. from ecstatic sleep of prophets Jeremiah 31:26. 2 from sleep of death, with negative 2 Kings 4:31; Jeremiah 51:39, 57; Job 14:12; of resurrection Isaiah 26:19; Daniel 12:2 3 from stupor (of drunkenness) Joel 1:5; Proverbs 23:35. 4 of inanimate thing Habakkuk 2:19; compare אֵלָ֑יִח הֵקִיץ הַקֵּץ בָּא Ezekiel 7:6 the end cometh, it hath awaked unto thee (Co strike out הֵקִיץ, but the word-play favours it). — Psalm 17:15 is put by Thes Ol Hup Du and others below 1a; Ew De Che below 2; we below 1b; Calv Now from night of distress and helplessness, and so Bae (psalmist representing Israel). II. קיץ (√ of following; usually taken as = I. קיץ but connection not clear; compare Arabic vehement heat of summer, late summer (WeSkizzen iii, 90), be vehemently hot; Sabean קיטֿ summer MordtmHim. Inschr. 71; Late Hebrew קַיִץ = Biblical Hebrew, so קַיְטָא ᵑ7 Syriac ; Old Aramaic (Zinjirli) כיצא summer). |
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