קוּם
qum (H6965B)
to arise: rise
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# The Hebrew Verb קוּם (qum): Rising and Standing The Hebrew verb קוּם (qum) carries the basic sense of physical and positional movement—"to arise" or "to rise." With 376 occurrences throughout the Bible, it ranks among the more frequently used action verbs in biblical Hebrew, suggesting its importance in describing ordinary and significant events alike. The word captures the simple but essential action of moving from a lower to a higher position, whether standing up from sitting, rising from sleep, or ascending from one location to another. Beyond literal physical movement, the frequency and distribution of this word across biblical texts suggest it functioned as a versatile verb capable of describing transitions and beginnings. The term could express both concrete actions—a person standing to speak or act—and more abstract notions of emergence or commencement. This semantic range made קוּם useful for narrating everything from daily activities to pivotal moments in biblical narratives, where characters "rise" to undertake significant tasks or responsibilities. The prominence of this verb in the Hebrew Bible reflects how fundamental the concept of rising and standing was to ancient Hebrew thought and expression. Rather than being a specialized or technical term, קוּם appears to have been a common, everyday word that formed part of the basic vocabulary for describing human movement and agency, making it valuable to scholars seeking to understand how biblical writers narrated action and change.
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Cain said to Abel, his brother, “Let’s go into the field.” While they were in the field, Cain rose up against Abel, his brother, and killed him.
Arise, walk through the land in its length and in its width; for I will give it to you.”
The men rose up from there, and looked toward Sodom. Abraham went with them to see them on their way.
The two angels came to Sodom at evening. Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them. He bowed himself with his face to the earth,
Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters, and said, “Get up! Get out of this place, for Yahweh will destroy the city!” But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be joking.
When the morning came, then the angels hurried Lot, saying, “Get up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the iniquity of the city.”
They made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father. He didn’t know when she lay down, nor when she arose.
They made their father drink wine that night also. The younger went and lay with him. He didn’t know when she lay down, nor when she got up.
Get up, lift up the boy, and hold him with your hand. For I will make him a great nation.”
So they made a covenant at Beersheba. Abimelech rose up with Phicol, the captain of his army, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.
Abraham rose early in the morning, and saddled his donkey; and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son. He split the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went to the place of which God had told him.
So Abraham returned to his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beersheba. Abraham lived at Beersheba.
Abraham rose up from before his dead and spoke to the children of Heth, saying,
Abraham rose up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, to the children of Heth.
The servant took ten of his master’s camels, and departed, having a variety of good things of his master’s with him. He arose, and went to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor.
They ate and drank, he and the men who were with him, and stayed all night. They rose up in the morning, and he said, “Send me away to my master.”
Rebekah arose with her ladies. They rode on the camels, and followed the man. The servant took Rebekah, and went his way.
Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew. He ate and drank, rose up, and went his way. So Esau despised his birthright.
Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau your firstborn. I have done what you asked me to do. Please arise, sit and eat of my venison, that your soul may bless me.”
He also made savory food, and brought it to his father. He said to his father, “Let my father arise, and eat of his son’s venison, that your soul may bless me.”
Now therefore, my son, obey my voice. Arise, flee to Laban, my brother, in Haran.
Arise, go to Paddan Aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother’s father. Take a wife from there from the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.
I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar, where you vowed a vow to me. Now arise, get out from this land, and return to the land of your birth.’ ”
Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives on the camels,
So he fled with all that he had. He rose up, passed over the River, and set his face toward the mountain of Gilead.
She said to her father, “Don’t let my lord be angry that I can’t rise up before you; for I’m having my period.” He searched, but didn’t find the teraphim.
He rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two servants, and his eleven sons, and crossed over the ford of the Jabbok.
God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, and live there. Make there an altar to God, who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau your brother.”
Let’s arise, and go up to Bethel. I will make there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me on the way which I went.”
for behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and also stood upright; and behold, your sheaves came around, and bowed down to my sheaf.”
All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, “For I will go down to Sheol to my son, mourning.” His father wept for him.
She arose, and went away, and put off her veil from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.
Seven years of famine will arise after them, and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt. The famine will consume the land,
Judah said to Israel, his father, “Send the boy with me, and we’ll get up and go, so that we may live, and not die, both we, and you, and also our little ones.
Take your brother also, get up, and return to the man.
The men took that present, and they took double money in their hand, and Benjamin; and got up, went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph.
When they had gone out of the city, and were not yet far off, Joseph said to his steward, “Up, follow after the men. When you overtake them, ask them, ‘Why have you rewarded evil for good?
Jacob rose up from Beersheba, and the sons of Israel carried Jacob, their father, their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.
Judah is a lion’s cub. From the prey, my son, you have gone up. He stooped down, he crouched as a lion, as a lioness. Who will rouse him up?
Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who didn’t know Joseph.
The shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.
They didn’t see one another, and nobody rose from his place for three days; but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.
Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where there was not one dead.
He called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, “Rise up, get out from among my people, both you and the children of Israel; and go, serve Yahweh, as you have said!
if he rises again and walks around with his staff, then he who struck him shall be cleared; only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall provide for his healing until he is thoroughly healed.
Moses rose up with Joshua, his servant, and Moses went up onto God’s Mountain.
When the people saw that Moses delayed coming down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron, and said to him, “Come, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we don’t know what has become of him.”
They rose up early on the next day, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.
When Moses went out to the Tent, all the people rose up, and stood, everyone at their tent door, and watched Moses, until he had gone into the Tent.
All the people saw the pillar of cloud stand at the door of the Tent, and all the people rose up and worshiped, everyone at their tent door.
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