to awake
quts describes waking from sleep or being summoned to rouse and act.
The attested uses chiefly describe waking or not waking from sleep, dreams, or the sleep of death. A smaller group uses imperative and figurial language to summon people, an idol, God, or an approaching end to rouse or move into action.
Senses in use
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Waking from sleep, dreams, or death · dominant
The forms occur where sleepers do or do not awaken: the men around Saul remain asleep in 1 Samuel 26:12, the youth does not awake in 2 Kings 4:31, and dreamers awaken after imagined eating or drinking in Isaiah 29:8. The same waking contrast is extended to those sleeping in the dust in Daniel 12:2 and Isaiah 26:19, while Jeremiah 51:39 and Job 14:12 speak of sleep from which there is no waking.
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A summons to rouse or become active · common
Imperative forms address drunkards who are to weep in Joel 1:5 and a silent wooden or stone object in Habakkuk 2:19. Imperatives also occur in appeals directed to God in Psalm 35:23, while Ezekiel 7:6 describes the coming end as having awakened toward its hearer rather than a person rising from sleep.
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly renders the sleep-related clauses with “awake,” “awakes,” or “wake,” and uses “rouse yourself” in some appeals. Forms whose contribution is not overt in the English, such as in Psalm 3:6, should not be assigned a more precise rendering from the APB alone.