- Original: שׁכם - Transliteration: Shakam - Phonetic: shaw-kam' - Definition: 1. to rise or start early a. (Hiphil) 1. to rise early, make an early start 2. early (as adverb) - Origin: a primitive root - TWOT entry: 2386 - Part(s) of speech: Verb - Strong's: 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) that is to start early in the morning: - (arise be up get [oneself] up rise up) early (betimes) morning. Total KJV Occurrences: 65 • early, 61 Genesis 19:2; Genesis 19:27; Genesis 20:8; Genesis 21:14; Genesis 22:3; Genesis 28:18; Exodus 8:20; Exodus 9:13; Exodus 24:4; Exodus 32:6; Exodus 34:4; Numbers 14:40; Joshua 3:1; Joshua 6:12; Joshua 6:15; Joshua 7:16; Joshua 8:10; Joshua 8:14; Judges 6:28; Judges 6:38; Judges 7:1; Judges 9:33; Judges 19:5; Judges 19:8; Judges 19:9; Judges 21:4; 1 Samuel 1:19; 1 Samuel 5:3; 1 Samuel 5:4; 1 Samuel 9:26; 1 Samuel 15:12; 1 Samuel 17:20; 1 Samuel 29:10(2); 1 Samuel 29:11; 2 Samuel 15:2; 2 Kings 3:22; 2 Kings 6:15; 2 Kings 19:35; 2 Chronicles 20:20; 2 Chronicles 29:20; Job 1:5; Psalm 127:2; Proverbs 27:14; Song of Songs 7:12; Isaiah 5:11; Isaiah 37:36; Jeremiah 7:13; Jeremiah 7:25; Jeremiah 11:7; Jeremiah 25:3; Jeremiah 25:4; Jeremiah 26:5; Jeremiah 29:19; Jeremiah 32:33; Jeremiah 35:14; Jeremiah 35:15; Jeremiah 44:4; Hosea 6:4; Hosea 13:3; Zephaniah 3:7 • morning, 1 1 Samuel 17:16 • quickly, 2 Genesis 26:31; 2 Chronicles 36:15 • up, 1 Genesis 31:55