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awake

Meaning of “awake”

Sense 1: To cease sleeping or to arouse from sleep or inactivity. Sense 2: Not sleeping; fully roused from sleep.

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KJV context and cross-referencesWebster 1828
42 occurrences32 verses16 booksKJV PCE

Some verses contain the word more than once.

First occurrence: Judges 5:12

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Isaiah 26:19
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.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Isaiah 26:19 · retained source text

Thy dead men shall liue, together with my dead body shall they arise: awake and sing yee that dwell in dust: for thy dewe is as the dewe of herbes, and the earth shall cast out the dead.

Isaiah 51:9
awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the Lord; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon?
3 word occurrences in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Isaiah 51:9 · retained source text

¶ Awake, awake, put on strength, O arme of the LORD, awake as in the ancient dayes, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon?

1611 marginal notePsal. 74.13,14. eze. 29.3.

Isaiah 51:17
awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the Lord the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out.
2 word occurrences in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Isaiah 51:17 · retained source text

¶ Awake, awake, stand vp, O Ierusalem, which hast drunke at the hand of the LORD the cup of his furie; thou hast drunken the dregges of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out.

1611 marginal noteChap.52.1.

Isaiah 52:1
awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.
2 word occurrences in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Isaiah 52:1 · retained source text

¶ Awake, awake, put on thy strength, O Zion, put on thy beautifull garments, O Ierusalem the holy citie: for hencefoorth there shall no more come into thee the vncircumcised, and the vncleane.

1611 marginal noteChap. 51.17.

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Historical definitions

To cease to sleep; to come from natural sleep. To bestir, revive, or rouse from inactivity.

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