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
- Numbers 30:7וְקָ֣מוּ; יָקֻֽמוּ׃ · shall stand…and her husband hears of it but says nothing to her on that day, then the vows or pledges by which she has bound herself shall stand.
- Numbers 30:9יָק֥וּם · is bindingEvery vow a widow or divorced woman pledges to fulfill is binding on her.
- Numbers 30:11וְקָ֙מוּ֙; יָקֽוּם׃ · shall stand…and her husband hears of it but says nothing to her and does not prohibit her, then all the vows or pledges by which she has bound herself shall stand.
- Numbers 30:12יָק֑וּם · shall standBut if her husband nullifies them on the day he hears of them, then nothing that came from her lips, whether her vows or pledges, shall stand. Her husband has nullified them, and the LORD will absolve her.
- Numbers 30:13יְקִימֶ֖נּוּ · may confirmHer husband may confirm or nullify any vow or any sworn pledge to deny herself.
- Numbers 30:14וְהֵקִים֙ · then he confirms; הֵקִ֣ים · He has confirmedBut if her husband says nothing to her from day to day, then he confirms all the vows and pledges that bind her. He has confirmed them, because he said nothing to her on the day he heard about them.
- Numbers 32:14קַמְתֶּ֗ם · have risen upNow behold, you, a brood of sinners, have risen up in place of your fathers to further stoke the burning anger of the LORD against Israel.
- Deuteronomy 2:13קֻ֛מוּ · arise“Now arise and cross over the Brook of Zered.” So we crossed over the Brook of Zered.
- Deuteronomy 2:24ק֣וּמוּ · Arise“Arise, set out, and cross the Arnon Valley. See, I have delivered into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land. Begin to take possession of it and engage him in battle.
- Deuteronomy 6:7וּבְקוּמֶֽךָ׃ · and when you get upAnd you shall teach them diligently to your children and speak of them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
- Deuteronomy 8:18הָקִ֧ים · confirmBut remember that it is the LORD your God who gives you the power to gain wealth, in order to confirm His covenant that He swore to your fathers even to this day.
- Deuteronomy 9:5הָקִ֣ים · keepIt is not because of your righteousness or uprightness of heart that you are going in to possess their land, but it is because of their wickedness that the LORD your God is driving out these nations before you, to keep the promise He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
- Deuteronomy 9:12ק֣וּם · Get upAnd the LORD said to me, “Get up and go down from here at once, for your people, whom you brought out of Egypt, have corrupted themselves. How quickly they have turned aside from the way that I commanded them! They have made for themselves a molten image.”
- Deuteronomy 10:11ק֛וּם · Get upThen the LORD said to me, “Get up. Continue your journey ahead of the people, that they may enter and possess the land that I swore to their fathers to give them.”
- Deuteronomy 11:19וּבְקוּמֶֽךָ׃ · and when you get upTeach them to your children, speaking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
- Deuteronomy 13:1יָק֤וּם · arisesIf a prophet or dreamer of dreams arises among you and proclaims a sign or wonder to you,
- Deuteronomy 16:22תָקִ֥ים · set up…and do not set up for yourselves a sacred pillar, which the LORD your God hates.
- Deuteronomy 17:8וְקַמְתָּ֣If a case is too difficult for you to judge, whether the controversy within your gates is regarding bloodshed, lawsuits, or assaults, you must go up to the place the LORD your God will choose.
- Deuteronomy 18:15יָקִ֥ים · will raise upThe LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must listen to him.
- Deuteronomy 18:18אָקִ֥ים · I will raise upI will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. I will put My words in his mouth, and he will tell them everything I command him.
- Deuteronomy 19:11וְקָ֣ם · attacksIf, however, a man hates his neighbor and lies in wait, attacks him and kills him, and then flees to one of these cities,
- Deuteronomy 19:15יָקוּם֩ · to establish; יָק֥וּם · must be establishedA lone witness is not sufficient to establish any wrongdoing or sin against a man, regardless of what offense he may have committed. A matter must be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.
- Deuteronomy 19:16יָק֥וּםIf a false witness testifies against someone, accusing him of a crime,
- Deuteronomy 22:4הָקֵ֥ם · you must help him lift it up; תָּקִ֖יםIf you see your brother’s donkey or ox fallen on the road, you must not ignore it; you must help him lift it up.
- Deuteronomy 22:26יָק֨וּם · attacksDo nothing to the young woman, because she has committed no sin worthy of death. This case is just like one in which a man attacks his neighbor and murders him.
- Deuteronomy 25:6יָק֕וּם · will carryThe first son she bears will carry on the name of the dead brother, so that his name will not be blotted out from Israel.
- Deuteronomy 25:7לְהָקִ֨ים · to preserveBut if the man does not want to marry his brother’s widow, she is to go to the elders at the city gate and say, “My husband’s brother refuses to preserve his brother’s name in Israel. He is not willing to perform the duty of a brother-in-law for me.”
- Deuteronomy 27:2וַהֲקֵמֹתָ֤ · set upAnd on the day you cross the Jordan into the land that the LORD your God is giving you, set up large stones and coat them with plaster.
- Deuteronomy 27:4תָּקִ֜ימוּ · you are to set upAnd when you have crossed the Jordan, you are to set up these stones on Mount Ebal, as I am commanding you today, and you are to coat them with plaster.
- Deuteronomy 27:26יָקִ֛ים · put‘Cursed is he who does not put the words of this law into practice.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
- Deuteronomy 28:7הַקָּמִ֣ים · who rise upThe LORD will cause the enemies who rise up against you to be defeated before you. They will march out against you in one direction but flee from you in seven.
- Deuteronomy 28:9יְקִֽימְךָ֨ · will establish youThe LORD will establish you as His holy people, just as He has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of the LORD your God and walk in His ways.
- Deuteronomy 28:36תָּקִ֣ים · you appointThe LORD will bring you and the king you appoint to a nation neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you will worship other gods—gods of wood and stone.
- Deuteronomy 29:13הָקִֽים־ · He may establish…and so that He may establish you today as His people, and He may be your God as He promised you and as He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
- Deuteronomy 29:22יָק֙וּמוּ֙ · followThen the generation to come—your sons who follow you and the foreigner who comes from a distant land—will see the plagues of the land and the sicknesses the LORD has inflicted on it.
- Deuteronomy 31:16וְקָם֩ · will rise upAnd the LORD said to Moses, “You will soon rest with your fathers, and these people will rise up and prostitute themselves with the foreign gods of the land they are entering. They will forsake Me and break the covenant I have made with them.
- Deuteronomy 32:38יָק֙וּמוּ֙ · Let them rise up…which ate the fat of their sacrifices and drank the wine of their drink offerings? Let them rise up and help you; let them give you shelter!
- Deuteronomy 33:11קָמָ֛יו · of those who rise against him; יְקוּמֽוּן׃ס · rise [no more]Bless his substance, O LORD, and accept the work of his hands. Smash the loins of those who rise against him, and of his foes so they can rise no more.”
- Deuteronomy 34:10קָ֨ם · has risenSince that time, no prophet has risen in Israel like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face—
- Joshua 1:2ק֨וּם · arise“Moses My servant is dead. Now therefore arise, you and all these people, and cross over the Jordan into the land that I am giving to the children of Israel.
- Joshua 2:11קָ֨מָהWhen we heard this, our hearts melted and everyone’s courage failed because of you, for the LORD your God is God in the heavens above and on the earth below.
- Joshua 3:16קָ֣מוּ · It backed up…the flowing water stood still. It backed up as far upstream as Adam, a city in the area of Zarethan, while the water flowing toward the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea) was completely cut off. So the people crossed over opposite Jericho.
- Joshua 4:9הֵקִ֣ים · set upJoshua also set up twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan, in the place where the priests who carried the ark of the covenant stood. And the stones are there to this day.
- Joshua 4:20הֵקִ֥ים · set upAnd there at Gilgal Joshua set up the twelve stones they had taken from the Jordan.