Definition for A-WAKE'

A-WAKE', v.i.

  1. To cease to sleep; to come from a state of natural sleep. Jacob awaked out of sleep. Gen. xxviii.
  2. To bestir, revive or rouse from a state of inaction; to be invigorated with new life; as, the mind awakes from its stupidity. Awake, O sword, against my shepherd. Zech. xiii.
  3. To rouse from spiritual sleep. Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. Eph. v. Awake to righteousness. – 1 Cor. xv.
  4. To rise from the dead. Job xiv.

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