Strong's Number: H7925
Original Word: shakam
Usage Notes: "to rise early, start early." Found in both biblical and modern Hebrew, this verb occurs some 65 times in the Hebrew Old Testament. It is found for the first time in Gen 19:2: "…And ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways." As in this instance, many of the instances of the use of shakam are in connection with traveling. Thus, it may be used with verbs of going (as above) or encamping (Judg 7:1). The word is used some 30 times in reference to rising early in the morning, as in 1Sa 29:10, in which this phrase appears twice: "Wherefore now rise up early in the morning with thy master's servants that are come with thee: and as soon as ye be up early in the morning, and have light, depart."
A number of times in the Book of Jeremiah, "rising up early" is used with "speaking" (Jer 7:13; Jer 25:3; Jer 35:14), "sending" (Jer 7:25; Jer 25:4; Jer 29:19; Jer 35:15; Jer 44:4), "protesting" (Jer 11:7), or "teaching" (Jer 32:33). Psa 127:2 gives some interesting advice while using this word: "It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep."
