Definition
a primitive root; to rise (in various applications, literal, figurative, intensive and causative)
Traditional renderings: abide, accomplish, × be clearer, confirm, continue, decree, × be dim, endure, × enemy, enjoin, get up, make good, help, hold, (help to) lift up (again), make, × but newly, ordain, perform, pitch, raise (up), rear (up), remain, (a-) rise (up) (again, against), rouse up, set (up), (e-) stablish, (make to) stand (up), stir up, strengthen, succeed, (as-, make) sure(-ly), (be) up(-hold, -rising).
Traditional renderings: abide, accomplish, × be clearer, confirm, continue, decree, × be dim, endure, × enemy, enjoin, get up, make good, help, hold, (help to) lift up (again), make, × but newly, ordain, perform, pitch, raise (up), rear (up), remain, (a-) rise (up) (again, against), rouse up, set (up), (e-) stablish, (make to) stand (up), stir up, strengthen, succeed, (as-, make) sure(-ly), (be) up(-hold, -rising).
In the Greek Old Testament
How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders קָמָי:
- ἀνίστημιanistēmi“to arise”73%
- ἵστημιhistēmi“to stand”13%
- ἐγείρωegeirō“to arise”3%
- μένωmenō“to stay”2%
- ἐπανίστημιepanistēmi“to rebel against”1%
Usage patterns
Occurrences
628 total
- Genesis 4:8וַיָּ֥קָם · rose upThen Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let us go out to the field.” And while they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him.
- Genesis 6:18וַהֲקִמֹתִ֥י · But I will establishBut I will establish My covenant with you, and you will enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you.
- Genesis 9:9מֵקִ֛ים · establish“Behold, I now establish My covenant with you and your descendants after you,
- Genesis 9:11וַהֲקִמֹתִ֤י · And I establishAnd I establish My covenant with you: Never again will all life be cut off by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.”
- Genesis 9:17הֲקִמֹ֔תִי · I have establishedSo God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant that I have established between Me and every creature on the earth.”
- Genesis 13:17ק֚וּם · Get upGet up and walk around the land, through its length and breadth, for I will give it to you.”
- Genesis 17:7וַהֲקִמֹתִ֨י · I will establishI will establish My covenant as an everlasting covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.
- Genesis 17:19וַהֲקִמֹתִ֨י · I will establishBut God replied, “Your wife Sarah will indeed bear you a son, and you are to name him Isaac. I will establish My covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him.
- Genesis 17:21אָקִ֣ים · I will establishBut I will establish My covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this time next year.”
- Genesis 18:16וַיָּקֻ֤מוּ · When [the men] got upWhen the men got up to leave, they looked out over Sodom, and Abraham walked along with them to see them off.
- Genesis 19:1וַיָּ֣קָם · he got upNow the two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of the city. When Lot saw them, he got up to meet them, bowed facedown,
- Genesis 19:14ק֤וּמוּ · Get upSo Lot went out and spoke to the sons-in-law who were pledged in marriage to his daughters. “Get up,” he said. “Get out of this place, for the LORD is about to destroy the city!” But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.
- Genesis 19:15קוּם֩ · Get upAt daybreak the angels hurried Lot along, saying, “Get up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away in the punishment of the city.”
- Genesis 19:33וּבְקׄוּמָֽהּ׃ · or when she got upSo that night they got their father drunk with wine, and the firstborn went in and slept with her father; he was not aware when she lay down or when she got up.
- Genesis 19:35וַתָּ֤קָם · went in; וּבְקֻמָֽהּ׃ · or when she got upSo again that night they got their father drunk with wine, and the younger daughter went in and slept with him; he was not aware when she lay down or when she got up.
- Genesis 21:18ק֚וּמִי · Get upGet up, lift up the boy, and take him by the hand, for I will make him into a great nation.”
- Genesis 21:32וַיָּ֣קָם · got upAfter they had made the covenant at Beersheba, Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army got up and returned to the land of the Philistines.
- Genesis 22:3וַיָּ֣קָם · and set out forSo Abraham got up early the next morning, saddled his donkey, and took along two of his servants and his son Isaac. He split the wood for a burnt offering and set out for the place God had designated.
- Genesis 22:19וַיָּקֻ֛מוּ · and they got upAbraham went back to his servants, and they got up and set out together for Beersheba. And Abraham settled in Beersheba.
- Genesis 23:3וַיָּ֙קָם֙ · got upThen Abraham got up from beside his dead wife and said to the Hittites,
- Genesis 23:7וַיָּ֧קָם · roseThen Abraham rose and bowed down before the people of the land, the Hittites.
- Genesis 23:17וַיָּ֣קָם׀ · were deeded overSo Ephron’s field at Machpelah near Mamre, the cave that was in it, and all the trees within the boundaries of the field were deeded over
- Genesis 23:20וַיָּ֨קָם · were deededSo the field and its cave were deeded by the Hittites to Abraham as a burial site.
- Genesis 24:10וַיָּ֗קָם · And he set outThen the servant took ten of his master’s camels and departed with all manner of good things from his master in hand. And he set out for Nahor’s hometown in Aram-naharaim.
- Genesis 24:54וַיָּק֣וּמוּ · When they got upThen he and the men with him ate and drank and spent the night there. When they got up the next morning, he said, “Send me on my way to my master.”
- Genesis 24:61וַתָּ֨קָם · got readyThen Rebekah and her servant girls got ready, mounted the camels, and followed the man. So the servant took Rebekah and left.
- Genesis 25:34וַיָּ֖קָם · and then got upThen Jacob gave some bread and lentil stew to Esau, who ate and drank and then got up and went away. Thus Esau despised his birthright.
- Genesis 26:3וַהֲקִֽמֹתִי֙ · and I will confirmStay in this land as a foreigner, and I will be with you and bless you. For I will give all these lands to you and your offspring, and I will confirm the oath that I swore to your father Abraham.
- Genesis 27:19קֽוּם־Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau, your firstborn. I have done as you told me. Please sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may bless me.”
- Genesis 27:31יָקֻ֤ם · sit upHe too made some tasty food, brought it to his father, and said to him, “My father, sit up and eat of your son’s game, so that you may bless me.”
- Genesis 27:43וְק֧וּם · at onceSo now, my son, obey my voice and flee at once to my brother Laban in Haran.
- Genesis 28:2ק֥וּם · at once“Go at once to Paddan-aram, to the house of your mother’s father Bethuel, and take a wife from among the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.
- Genesis 31:13ק֥וּם · get upI am the God of Bethel, where you anointed the pillar and made a solemn vow to Me. Now get up, leave this land at once, and return to your native land.’”
- Genesis 31:17וַיָּ֖קָם · got upThen Jacob got up and put his children and his wives on camels,
- Genesis 31:21וַיָּ֖קָםSo he fled with all his possessions, crossed the Euphrates, and headed for the hill country of Gilead.
- Genesis 31:35לָק֣וּם · stand upRachel said to her father, “Sir, do not be angry that I cannot stand up before you; for I am having my period.” So Laban searched but could not find the household idols.
- Genesis 32:22וַיָּ֣קָם׀ · Jacob got upDuring the night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two maidservants, and his eleven sons, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.
- Genesis 35:1ק֛וּם · AriseThen God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, and settle there. Build an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.”
- Genesis 35:3וְנָק֥וּמָה · Then let us ariseThen let us arise and go to Bethel. I will build an altar there to God, who answered me in my day of distress. He has been with me wherever I have gone.”
- Genesis 37:7קָ֥מָה · roseWe were binding sheaves of grain in the field, and suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright, while your sheaves gathered around and bowed down to mine.”
- Genesis 37:35וַיָּקֻמוּ֩All his sons and daughters tried to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. “No,” he said. “I will go down to Sheol mourning for my son.” So his father wept for him.
- Genesis 38:8וְהָקֵ֥ם · and raise upThen Judah said to Onan, “Sleep with your brother’s wife. Perform your duty as her brother-in-law and raise up offspring for your brother.”
- Genesis 38:19וַתָּ֣קָם · Then Tamar got upThen Tamar got up and departed. And she removed her veil and put on her widow’s garments again.
- Genesis 41:30וְ֠קָמוּ · will follow…but seven years of famine will follow them. Then all the abundance in the land of Egypt will be forgotten, and the famine will devastate the land.
- Genesis 43:8וְנָק֣וּמָהAnd Judah said to his father Israel, “Send the boy with me, and we will go at once, so that we may live and not die—neither we, nor you, nor our children.
- Genesis 43:13וְק֖וּמוּ · at onceTake your brother as well, and return to the man at once.
- Genesis 43:15וַיָּקֻ֙מוּ֙So the men took these gifts, along with double the amount of silver, and Benjamin as well. Then they hurried down to Egypt and stood before Joseph.
- Genesis 44:4ק֥וּם · at onceThey had not gone far from the city when Joseph told his steward, “Pursue the men at once, and when you overtake them, ask, ‘Why have you repaid good with evil?
- Genesis 46:5וַיָּ֥קָם · departedThen Jacob departed from Beersheba, and the sons of Israel took their father Jacob in the wagons Pharaoh had sent to carry him, along with their children and wives.