to rouse
ur describes awakening or stirring someone or something into action, including spirits, people, forces, and conflict.
The supplied verses most often show causing a person, spirit, people, or force to become active or move into action. They also use the verb in direct calls to awake or rouse oneself, and in contexts of activating weapons, strife, cries, or other responses.
Senses in use
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Stirring persons, spirits, or forces into action · dominant
Hiphil forms repeatedly name an agent who moves another into action: in Ezra 1:1 the APB renders the clause that the LORD “stirred up the spirit of Cyrus,” and in Haggai 1:14 the spirits of leaders and the remnant are stirred so that they come and work. The same causative pattern concerns nations or military powers in Isaiah 13:17 and Jeremiah 50:9, where the APB renders forces being brought against others.
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Awakening or calling for renewed action · common
Imperative forms address a figure directly and call for awakened action: in Isaiah 51:9 the APB renders repeated appeals, “Awake, awake,” to the arm of the LORD, while Isaiah 52:1 directs Zion to awake and put on strength. In Isaiah 51:17, Hithpolel imperatives address Jerusalem with the repeated call to rouse herself.
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Rousing an action, response, or disturbance · occasional
Polel forms occur where an action or response is activated: 1 Chronicles 11:11 says that Jashobeam roused his spear against three hundred, and Proverbs 10:12 says that hatred stirs up strife. Isaiah 15:5 places the plural form in a clause where people rouse an outcry of breaking.
In the Anselm Project Bible: Across these verses, the APB uses “stirred up,” “roused,” “awake,” “arise,” and “stirs up.” Those renderings show the clauses’ presentation rather than fixed English equivalents for every occurrence.