קָמָי

qa.may(Leb)-kamaiHow to read Hebrew
hebrewOld TestamentVerb628 occurrences36 books596 verses

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).

In the Greek Old Testament

How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders קָמָי:

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

628 total
  1. Song of Solomon 3:2אָק֨וּמָה · I will arise
    I will arise now and go about the city, through the streets and squares. I will seek the one I love. So I sought him but did not find him.
  2. Song of Solomon 5:5קַ֥מְתִּֽי · rose up
    I rose up to open for my beloved. My hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with flowing myrrh on the handles of the bolt.
  3. Isaiah 2:19בְּקוּמ֖וֹ · when He rises
    Men will flee to caves in the rocks and holes in the ground, away from the terror of the LORD and from the splendor of His majesty, when He rises to shake the earth.
  4. Isaiah 2:21בְּקוּמ֖וֹ · when He rises
    They will flee to caverns in the rocks and crevices in the cliffs, away from the terror of the LORD and from the splendor of His majesty, when He rises to shake the earth.
  5. Isaiah 7:7תָק֖וּם · arise
    But this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘It will not arise; it will not happen.
  6. Isaiah 8:10יָק֔וּם · happen
    Devise a plan, but it will be thwarted; state a proposal, but it will not happen. For God is with us.”
  7. Isaiah 14:9הֵקִים֙ · rise
    Sheol beneath is eager to meet you upon your arrival. It stirs the spirits of the dead to greet you—all the rulers of the earth. It makes all the kings of the nations rise from their thrones.
  8. Isaiah 14:21יָקֻ֙מוּ֙ · rise up
    Prepare a place to slaughter his sons for the iniquities of their forefathers. They will never rise up to possess a land or cover the earth with their cities.
  9. Isaiah 14:22וְקַמְתִּ֣י · I will rise up
    “I will rise up against them,” declares the LORD of Hosts. “I will cut off from Babylon her name and her remnant, her offspring and her posterity,” declares the LORD.
  10. Isaiah 14:24תָקֽוּם׃ · [so] will it stand
    The LORD of Hosts has sworn: “Surely, as I have planned, so will it be; as I have purposed, so will it stand.
  11. Isaiah 21:5ק֥וּמוּ · Rise up
    They prepare a table, they lay out a carpet, they eat, they drink! Rise up, O princes, oil the shields!
  12. Isaiah 23:12ק֣וּמִי · Get up
    He said, “You shall rejoice no more, O oppressed Virgin Daughter of Sidon. Get up and cross over to Cyprus—even there you will find no rest.”
  13. Isaiah 23:13הֵקִ֣ימוּ · they set up
    Look at the land of the Chaldeans—a people now of no account. The Assyrians destined it for the desert creatures; they set up their siege towers and stripped its palaces. They brought it to ruin.
  14. Isaiah 24:20קֽוּם׃ס · to rise
    The earth staggers like a drunkard and sways like a shack. Earth’s rebellion weighs it down, and it falls, never to rise again.
  15. Isaiah 26:14יָקֻ֑מוּ · rise
    The dead will not live; the departed spirits will not rise. Therefore You have punished and destroyed them; You have wiped out all memory of them.
  16. Isaiah 26:19יְקוּמ֑וּן · will rise
    Your dead will live; their bodies will rise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust! For your dew is like the dew of the morning, and the earth will bring forth her dead.
  17. Isaiah 27:9יָקֻ֥מוּ · will remain standing
    Therefore Jacob’s guilt will be atoned for, and the full fruit of the removal of his sin will be this: When he makes all the altar stones like crushed bits of chalk, no Asherah poles or incense altars will remain standing.
  18. Isaiah 28:18תָק֑וּם · stand
    Your covenant with death will be dissolved, and your agreement with Sheol will not stand. When the overwhelming scourge passes through, you will be trampled by it.
  19. Isaiah 28:21יָק֣וּם · will rise up
    For the LORD will rise up as at Mount Perazim. He will rouse Himself as in the Valley of Gibeon, to do His work, His strange work, and to perform His task, His disturbing task.
  20. Isaiah 29:3וַהֲקִֽימֹתִ֥י · and set up
    I will camp in a circle around you; I will besiege you with towers and set up siege works against you.
  21. Isaiah 31:2וְקָם֙ · He will rise up
    Yet He too is wise and brings disaster; He does not call back His words. He will rise up against the house of the wicked and against the allies of evildoers.
  22. Isaiah 32:8יָקֽוּם׃פ · stands up
    But a noble man makes honorable plans; he stands up for worthy causes.
  23. Isaiah 32:9קֹ֖מְנָה · Stand up
    Stand up, you complacent women; listen to me. Give ear to my word, you overconfident daughters.
  24. Isaiah 33:10אָק֖וּם · I will arise
    “Now I will arise,” says the LORD. “Now I will lift Myself up. Now I will be exalted.
  25. Isaiah 40:8יָק֥וּם · stands
    The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever.”
  26. Isaiah 43:17יָק֔וּמוּ · to rise again
    …who brings out the chariots and horses, the armies and warriors together, to lie down, never to rise again; to be extinguished, snuffed out like a wick:
  27. Isaiah 44:26מֵקִים֙ · who confirms; אֲקוֹמֵֽם׃ · and I will restore
    …who confirms the message of His servant and fulfills the counsel of His messengers, who says of Jerusalem, ‘She will be inhabited,’ and of the cities of Judah, ‘They will be rebuilt, and I will restore their ruins,’
  28. Isaiah 46:10תָק֔וּם · will stand
    I declare the end from the beginning, and from ancient times what is still to come. I say, ‘My purpose will stand, and all My good pleasure I will accomplish.’
  29. Isaiah 49:6לְהָקִים֙ · to raise up
    He says: “It is not enough for You to be My Servant, to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the protected ones of Israel. I will also make You a light for the nations, to bring My salvation to the ends of the earth.”
  30. Isaiah 49:7וָקָ֔מוּ · and rise
    Thus says the LORD, the Redeemer and Holy One of Israel, to Him who was despised and abhorred by the nation, to the Servant of rulers: “Kings will see You and rise, and princes will bow down, because of the LORD, who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen You.”
  31. Isaiah 49:8לְהָקִ֣ים · to restore
    This is what the LORD says: “In the time of favor I will answer You, and in the day of salvation I will help You; I will keep You and appoint You to be a covenant for the people, to restore the land, to apportion its desolate inheritances,
  32. Isaiah 51:17ק֚וּמִי · Rise up
    Awake, awake! Rise up, O Jerusalem, you who have drunk from the hand of the LORD the cup of His fury; you who have drained the goblet to the dregs—the cup that makes men stagger.
  33. Isaiah 52:2ק֥וּמִי · Rise up
    Shake off your dust! Rise up and sit on your throne, O Jerusalem. Remove the chains from your neck, O captive Daughter of Zion.
  34. Isaiah 54:17תָּֽקוּם־ · that accuses
    No weapon formed against you shall prosper, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their vindication is from Me,” declares the LORD.
  35. Isaiah 58:12תְּקוֹמֵ֑ם · you will restore
    Your people will rebuild the ancient ruins; you will restore the age-old foundations; you will be called Repairer of the Breach, Restorer of the Streets of Dwelling.
  36. Isaiah 60:1ק֥וּמִי · Arise
    Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD rises upon you.
  37. Isaiah 61:4יְקוֹמֵ֑מוּ · they will restore
    They will rebuild the ancient ruins; they will restore the places long devastated; they will renew the ruined cities, the desolations of many generations.
  38. Jeremiah 1:17וְקַמְתָּ֙ · Stand up
    Get yourself ready. Stand up and tell them everything that I command you. Do not be intimidated by them, or I will terrify you before them.
  39. Jeremiah 2:27ק֖וּמָה · Rise up
    …say to a tree, ‘You are my father,’ and to a stone, ‘You gave me birth.’ They have turned their backs to Me and not their faces. Yet in the time of trouble, they say, ‘Rise up and save us!’
  40. Jeremiah 2:28יָק֕וּמוּ · Let them rise up
    But where are the gods you made for yourselves? Let them rise up in your time of trouble and save you if they can; for your gods are as numerous as your cities, O Judah.
  41. Jeremiah 6:4ק֖וּמוּ · rise up
    ‘Prepare for battle against her; rise up, let us attack at noon. Woe to us, for the daylight is fading; the evening shadows grow long.
  42. Jeremiah 6:5ק֚וּמוּ · Rise up
    Rise up, let us attack by night and destroy her fortresses!’”
  43. Jeremiah 6:17וַהֲקִמֹתִ֤י · I appointed
    I appointed watchmen over you and said, ‘Listen for the sound of the ram’s horn.’ But they answered, ‘We will not listen!’
  44. Jeremiah 8:4יָק֑וּמוּ · get up again
    So you are to tell them this is what the LORD says: “Do men fall and not get up again? Does one turn away and not return?
  45. Jeremiah 10:20וּמֵקִ֖ים · or set up
    My tent is destroyed, and all its ropes are snapped. My sons have departed from me and are no more. I have no one left to pitch my tent or set up my curtains.
  46. Jeremiah 11:5הָקִ֨ים · establish
    This was in order to establish the oath I swore to your forefathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is to this day.” “Amen, LORD,” I answered.
  47. Jeremiah 13:4וְקוּם֙ · at once
    “Take the loincloth that you bought and are wearing, and go at once to Perath and hide it there in a crevice of the rocks.”
  48. Jeremiah 13:6ק֚וּם · Arise
    Many days later the LORD said to me, “Arise, go to Perath, and get the loincloth that I commanded you to hide there.”
  49. Jeremiah 18:2ק֥וּם · at once
    “Go down at once to the potter’s house, and there I will give you My message.”