Quick Definition
to rouse
Strong's Definition
to wake (literally or figuratively)
Derivation: a primitive root (rather identical with through the idea of opening the eyes);
KJV Usage: (a-) wake(-n, up), lift up (self), [idiom] master, raise (up), stir up (self).
TWOT Reference: 1587
Outline of Biblical Usage
Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents
This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
עוּר (ur) — to rouse. 1) to rouse oneself, awake, awaken, incite 1a) (Qal) to rouse oneself, awake 1b) (Niphal) to be roused 1c) (Polel) to stir up, rouse, incite 1d) (Hithpolel) to be excited, be triumphant 1e) (Hiphil) 1e1) to rouse, stir up 1e2) to act in an aroused manner, awake
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · עִיר · עֵר
Awake | verb qal, verb hif | ≈ קיץ | ≠ ישׁן
to wake up = process by which someone wakes up from his sleep
Awake | verb hif, verb nif
to awaken = causative action by which someone wakes up someone else from his sleep
Engage | verb qal, verb nif, verb hit, verb hif | ≈ נשׂא · קום · קיץ
to come into action = action by which someone ends a period of inactivity and comes into action, ◄ as if he had been sleeping for a certain time
JDG 5:12 · JDG 5:12 · JDG 5:12 · JDG 5:12 · JOB 8:6 · JOB 14:12 · JOB 17:8 · JOB 31:29 · PSA 7:7 · PSA 35:23 · PSA 44:24 · PSA 57:9 · PSA 57:9 · PSA 59:5 · PSA 108:3 · SNG 4:16 · ISA 51:9 · ISA 51:9 · ISA 51:9 · ISA 51:17 · ISA 51:17 · ISA 52:1 · ISA 52:1 · ISA 64:6 · JER 6:22 · JER 25:32 · JER 50:41 · JOL 4:12 · HAB 2:19 · ZEC 2:17 · ZEC 13:7
Engage | verb pi, verb hif
to rouse, to stir up = causative action by which someone causes someone else's inactivity to end so that he comes into action, ◄ as if he had been sleeping for a certain time
DEU 32:11 · 1CH 5:26 · 2CH 21:16 · 2CH 36:22 · EZR 1:1 · EZR 1:5 · JOB 3:8 · JOB 41:2 · SNG 8:5 · ISA 13:17 · ISA 14:9 · ISA 41:2 · ISA 41:25 · ISA 45:13 · ISA 50:4 · ISA 50:4 · JER 50:9 · JER 51:1 · JER 51:11 · EZK 23:22 · DAN 11:2 · JOL 4:7 · JOL 4:9 · HAG 1:14 · ZEC 4:1 · ZEC 9:13
Happen | verb pi, verb hif
to rouse, to stir up, to raise, to stoke = causative action by which someone causes an event to start taking place, ◄ as if it had been dormant or inactive for a certain time
PSA 78:38 · PSA 80:3 · PRO 10:12 · SNG 2:7 · SNG 2:7 · SNG 3:5 · SNG 3:5 · SNG 8:4 · SNG 8:4 · ISA 15:5 · ISA 42:13 · DAN 11:25 · HOS 7:4
verb · עִוֵּר · עִוָּרֹון · עַוֶּרֶת
Unable | verb pi
Collocation: עִוֵּר עֵנַיִם
to put out (someone's) eyes = literally: to blind (one's) eyes; hence: = to cause someone to be unable to see by destroying or putting out their eyes
verb · מָעֹור
Uncover | verb nif
Collocation: עור עֶרְיָה
to uncover literally: to uncover bare; hence: = causative action by which someone removes the covering from an object
1 MAL 2:12 MT HOTTP-B "awake, conscious" | RSV NJB NRSV "witness" = עֵד | LXX ἕως = עַד | REB "nomads"
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[עוּר] vb. rouse oneself, awake Qal rouse oneself to activity
Niph. be roused; be incited to activity
Pō‛l. rouse, incite to activity
Pilp. rouse (i.e. raise ?) a cry of destruction
Hithpō‛l. and I was (joyfully) excited, triumphant
Hiph. rouse
declarative or exhibitive sense, act in an aroused manner, awake
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