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Lexicon :: Strong's H7925 - šāḵam

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שָׁכַם
Transliteration
šāḵam
Pronunciation
shaw-kam'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
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TWOT Reference: 2386

Strong’s Definitions

שָׁכַם shâkam, shaw-kam'; a primitive root; properly, to incline (the shoulder to a burden); but used only as denominative from H7926; literally, to load up (on the back of man or beast), i.e. to start early in the morning:—(arise, be up, get (oneself) up, rise up) early (betimes), morning.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 65x

The KJV translates Strong's H7925 in the following manner: (rise up, get you, ...) early (61x), betimes (2x), miscellaneous (2x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 65x
The KJV translates Strong's H7925 in the following manner: (rise up, get you, ...) early (61x), betimes (2x), miscellaneous (2x).
  1. to rise or start early

    1. (Hiphil)

      1. to rise early, make an early start

      2. early (as adverb)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
שָׁכַם shâkam, shaw-kam'; a primitive root; properly, to incline (the shoulder to a burden); but used only as denominative from H7926; literally, to load up (on the back of man or beast), i.e. to start early in the morning:—(arise, be up, get (oneself) up, rise up) early (betimes), morning.
STRONGS H7925: Abbreviations
[שָׁכַם] verb
Hiph. denominative start, rise, early (properly load backs of beasts for day's journey); — Perfect 3rd person masculine singular consecutive וְהִשְׁכִּים 2 Samuel 15:2; Job 1:5, etc.; Imperfect 3rd person masculine singular וַיַּשְׁכֵּם Genesis 19:27 +, 2nd person masculine singular תְּשְׁכִּים Judges 9:33, etc.; Imperative הַשְׁכֵּם Exodus 8:16 +; Infinitive absolute הַשְׁכֵּם Jeremiah 7:25 +, כֵּים - Jeremiah 44:4; Proverbs 27:14, erroneous אַשְׁכֵּים Jeremiah 25:3 (Ges§ 53 K); Participle מַשְׁכִּים Hosea 6:4 +, etc., — rise early, make an early start, of journey (Hexateuch only J E); לְדַרְכְּכֶם Judges 19:9 (+ מָחָר), compare Cant 7:13; + verb of going Genesis 19:2 (J), standing 2 Samuel 15:2 (compare Dr), encamping Judges 7:1, etc.; + infinitive 1 Samuel 15:12 (compare Dr), 1 Samuel 29:11; 2 Kings 6:15 (לָקוּם), מַשְׁכִּימֵי קוּם Psalm 127:3 (opposed to מְאַחֲרֵי שֶׁבֶת); usually with בַּבֹּקֶר Genesis 19:27 (J; אֶלהַֿמָּקוֺם), 1 Samuel 29:10 (twice in verse) + 27 times, + (hyperbole) שֵׁכָר מַשְׁכִּימֵי בַבּ׳ יִרְדֹּ֑פוּ Isaiah 5:11 (|| מְאַחֲרֵי בֵנֶּשֶׁף); with מִמָּחֳרָת Exodus 32:6 (E), Judges 6:28 + 3 times; with בַּעֲלוֺת הַשַּׁחַר Joshua 6:15 (J), 1 Samuel 19:26; וַיְמַהֲרוּ וַיַּשְׁכִּימוּ וַיֵּצְאוּ Joshua 8:14 (J) they made a quick and early start; and went out; † Infinitive absolute (Ges§ 113 s) as adverb וְהַעֲרֵב הַשׁ׳ 1 Samuel 17:16 at early morning and at evening; especially of י׳, in Jeremiah: הַשׁ׳ וְדַבֵּר = speaking early and often Jeremiah 7:13; Jeremiah 35:14 and (of Jeremiah) Jeremiah 25:3, compare Jeremiah 11:7; Jeremiah 32:33; often וְשָׁלוֺחַ הַשׁ׳ = sending early and often Jeremiah 7:25; Jeremiah 24:4; Jeremiah 26:5; Jeremiah 29:19; Jeremiah 35:14; Jeremiah 44:4, also 2 Chronicles 36:15; so verb finite הִשְׁכִּימוּ הִשְׁחִיתוּ, Zephaniah 3:7 = with eagerness they corrupted (Ges§ 120 g); participle הֹלֵךְ כַּטַּל מַשְׁ׳ Hosea 6:4 like the dew departing early, Hosea 13:3 (Gesib.). — 1 Samuel 9:26 read וַיִּשְׁכַּב, see שׁכב
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

19:2; 19:27; 19:27

Exodus

8:16; 32:6

Joshua

6:15; 8:14

Judges

6:28; 7:1; 9:33; 19:9

1 Samuel

9:26; 15:12; 17:16; 29:10; 29:11

2 Samuel

15:2; 15:2

2 Kings

6:15

2 Chronicles

36:15

Job

1:5

Psalms

127:3

Proverbs

27:14

Song of Songs

7:13

Isaiah

5:11

Jeremiah

7:13; 7:25; 7:25; 11:7; 24:4; 25:3; 25:3; 26:5; 29:19; 32:33; 35:14; 35:14; 44:4; 44:4

Hosea

6:4; 6:4; 13:3

Zephaniah

3:7

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H7925 matches the Hebrew שָׁכַם (šāḵam),
which occurs 65 times in 64 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 19:2–Isa 37:36)

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:2 - And he said, “See here, my lords, please turn aside and come into your servant’s house, and spend the night, and wash your feet; then you may get up early and go on your way.” But they said, “No, we shall spend the night in the open plaza [of the city].”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:27 -

Abraham started out early the next morning to the place where he [only the day before] had stood before the LORD;

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:8 -

So Abimelech got up early in the morning and called all his servants and told them all these things; and the men were terrified.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:14 - So Abraham got up early in the morning and took bread and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar, putting them on her shoulder, and gave her the boy, and sent her [fn]away. And she left [but lost her way] and wandered [aimlessly] in the Wilderness of Beersheba.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:3 - So Abraham got up early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him and his son Isaac; and he split the wood for the burnt offering, and then he got up and went to the place of which God had told him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:31 - They got up early in the morning and swore oaths [pledging to do nothing but good to each other]; and Isaac sent them on their way and they left him in peace.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:18 -

So Jacob got up early in the morning, and took the stone he had put under his head and he set it up as a pillar [that is, a monument to the vision in his dream], and he poured [olive] oil on the top of it [to [fn]consecrate it].

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:55 - Early in the morning Laban got up and kissed his [fn]grandchildren and his daughters [goodbye] and pronounced a blessing [asking God’s favor] on them. Then Laban left and returned home.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:20 -

Now the LORD said to Moses, “Get up early in the morning and stand before Pharaoh as he is coming out to the water [of the Nile], and say to him, ‘Thus says the LORD, “Let My people go, so that they may serve Me.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:13 -

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Get up early in the morning and stand before Pharaoh and say to him, ‘Thus says the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, “Let My people go, so that they may serve Me.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:4 - Moses wrote down all the words of the LORD. Then he got up early in the morning, and built an altar [for worship] at the foot of the mountain with twelve pillars (memorial stones) representing the twelve tribes of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:6 - So they got up early the next day and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; then the people sat down to eat and drink, and got up to play [shamefully—without moral restraint].
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:4 - So Moses cut two tablets of stone like the first ones, and he got up early in the morning and went up on Mount Sinai, as the LORD had commanded him, and took [fn]the two tablets of stone in his hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:40 - They got up early in the morning and went up to the ridge of the hill country, saying, “Look, here we are; we have indeed sinned, but we will go up to the place which the LORD has promised.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:1 -

Joshua got up early in the morning; then he and all the children of Israel set out from Shittim and came to the Jordan, and they spent the night there before they crossed [the river].

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:12 -

Then Joshua got up early in the morning [on the second day], and the priests took up the ark of the LORD.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:15 -

Then on the seventh day they got up early at daybreak and marched around the city in the same way seven times; only on that day they marched around the city [fn]seven times.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:16 -

So Joshua got up early in the morning and had Israel come forward by tribes, and the tribe of Judah was chosen [by lot].

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:10 -

Now Joshua got up early in the morning and assembled the people, and went up with the elders of Israel before the people to Ai.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:14 - Now when the king [and the people] of Ai saw it, the men of the city hurried and got up early and went out to meet Israel in battle, the king and all his people at the appointed [time and] place before the desert plain (the Arabah). But he did not know that there was an ambush against him [waiting] behind the city [on the west side].
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:28 -

Early the next morning when the men of the city got up, they discovered that the altar of Baal was torn down, and the Asherah which was beside it was cut down, and the second bull was offered on the altar which had been built.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:38 - And it was so. When he got up early the next morning and squeezed the dew out of the fleece, he wrung from it a bowl full of water.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:1 -

Then Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) and all the people who were with him got up early and camped beside the spring of Harod; and the camp of Midian was north of them by the hill of Moreh in the valley.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:33 - “Then in the morning, at sunrise, you will get up early and rush upon and attack the city; and when Gaal and the people who are with him come out against you, you shall do to them [fn]whatever you can.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:5 - On the fourth day they got up early in the morning, and the Levite prepared to leave; but the girl’s father said to his son-in-law, “Strengthen yourself with a piece of bread, and afterward go your way.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:8 - On the fifth day he got up early in the morning to leave, but the girl’s father said, “Please strengthen yourself, and wait until the end of the day.” So both of them ate.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:9 - When the man and his concubine and his servant got up to leave, his father-in-law, the girl’s father, said to him, “Behold, now the day has drawn to a close; please spend the night. Look, now the day comes to an end; spend the night here and celebrate, enjoy yourself. Then tomorrow you may get up early for your journey and go [fn]home.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:4 - And the next day the people got up early and built an altar there and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:19 -

The family got up early the next morning, worshiped before the LORD, and returned to their home in Ramah. Elkanah knew Hannah his wife, and the LORD remembered her [prayer].

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 5:3 - When the people of Ashdod got up early the next day, behold, Dagon had fallen on his face on the ground before the ark of the LORD. So they took Dagon and returned him to his place.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 5:4 - But when they got up early the next morning, behold, Dagon had [again] fallen on his face on the ground before the ark of the LORD, and his head and both palms of his hands were [lying] cut off on the threshold; only the trunk [portion] of [the idol of] Dagon was left on him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:26 - They got up early [the next day]; and at dawn Samuel called Saul [who was sleeping] on the roof, saying, “Get up, so that I may send you on your way.” Saul got up, and both he and Samuel went outside.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:12 - When Samuel got up early in the morning to meet Saul, he was told, “Saul came to [fn]Carmel, and behold, he set up for himself a monument [commemorating his victory], then he turned and went on and went down to Gilgal.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:16 - The Philistine [Goliath] came out morning and evening, and took his stand for forty days.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:20 -

So David got up early in the morning, left the flock with a keeper, picked up the provisions and went just as Jesse had directed him. And he came to the encampment as the army was going out in battle formation shouting the battle cry.

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 29:10 - “So now, get up early in the morning with your master’s servants who have come with you, and as soon as you are up in the morning and have light, leave.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 29:11 - So David and his men got up early to leave in the morning, to return to the land of the Philistines. But the Philistines went up to Jezreel [to fight against Israel].
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:2 - He would get up early and stand beside the road to the gate [of the city, where court was held]; and when any man who had a dispute came to the king for judgment, Absalom would call to him, “From what city are you?” And he would say, “Your servant is from one of the tribes of Israel.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:22 - When they got up early the next morning, the sun shone on the water, and the Moabites saw the water across from them as red as blood.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:15 -

The servant of the man of God got up early and went out, and behold, there was an army with horses and chariots encircling the city. Elisha’s servant said to him, “Oh no, my master! What are we to do?”

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:35 -

Then it came to pass that night, that the [fn]angel of the LORD went forth and struck down 185,000 [men] in the camp of the Assyrians; when the survivors got up early in the morning, behold, all [185,000] of them were dead.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:20 -

So they got up early in the morning and went out into the Wilderness of Tekoa; and as they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, “Hear me, O Judah, and you inhabitants of Jerusalem! Believe and trust in the LORD your God and you will be established (secure). Believe and trust in His prophets and succeed.”

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:20 -

Then King Hezekiah arose early and assembled the officials of the city, and went up to the house of the LORD.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:15 -

The LORD, the God of their fathers, sent word to them again and again by His messengers, because He had compassion on His people and on His dwelling place.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:5 - When the days of their feasting were over, Job would send [for them] and consecrate them, rising early in the morning and offering burnt offerings according to the number of them all; for Job said, “It may be that my sons have sinned and [fn]cursed God in their hearts.” Job did this at all [such] times.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 127:2 -

It is vain for you to rise early,

To retire late,

To eat the bread of anxious labors—

For He gives [blessings] to His beloved even in his sleep.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:14 -

He who blesses his neighbor with a loud voice early in the morning,

It will be counted as a curse to him [for it will either be annoying or his purpose will be suspect].

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 7:12 -

“Let us go out early to the vineyards;

Let us see whether the vine has budded

And its blossoms have opened,

And whether the pomegranates have flowered.

There I will give you my love.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:11 -

Woe (judgment is coming) to those who rise early in the morning to pursue intoxicating drink,

Who stay up late in the night till wine inflames them!

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:36 -

And the [fn]angel of the LORD went out and [fn]struck 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians; and when the [surviving] men got up early the next morning, they saw all the dead.


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