וַיָּ֙קָם֙ (way·yā·qām) in Jonah 3:6: Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
וַיָּ֙קָם֙ (way·yā·qām) in Jonah 3:6
Source Word
At Jonah 3:6, the source token וַיָּ֙קָם֙ is H6965, Conj-w | V-Qal-ConsecImperf-3ms. The BSB+ word table row therefore anchors this guide.
How The Form Affects Interpretation
He got up conveys the ordinary movement, with from his throne giving it its striking social reversal. Nineveh's ruler leaves throne and robe for sackcloth and ashes, visibly humbling himself under the announced judgment.
How To Communicate It
Trace the movement from throne to ashes and distinguish the physical act from the fuller repentance sequence.
What Not To Say
- Grammatical form should serve context, not override it.
- Do not equate getting up with conversion by itself or infer a permanent political reform from one narrative verb.
- The verb simply marks rising; repentance is communicated by the entire sequence and the city's turn from evil.
- Read he got up within Jonah 3:6 as this H6965 occurrence; broader theology requires the passage.
What Does The Label Mean?
Hebrew-verb
Verb
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Qal
ConsecImperf
Third
Masculine
Singular
Not applicable
Conjunction w
None
The narrative form presents rising as the first completed step in a sequence of status-lowering actions.
The third masculine singular subject is the king, while from his throne specifies the point he leaves.
What The Form Does In This Verse
The king of Nineveh as he rises from his throne
The report that Jonah's warning has reached the highest civic authority
The waw-consecutive Qal verb begins the king's embodied response by moving him up from the throne before robe, sackcloth, and ashes.
Standing up is not itself repentance, and the verb does not prove the king's later faithfulness.
How Much The Form Matters Here
Moderate: Nineveh's ruler leaves throne and robe for sackcloth and ashes, visibly humbling himself under the announced judgment.
The third masculine singular subject is the king, while from his throne specifies the point he leaves.. The waw-consecutive Qal verb begins the king's embodied response by moving him up from the throne before robe, sackcloth, and ashes.. Attached to the king of Nineveh as he rises from his throne. Governed by the report that Jonah's warning has reached the highest civic authority. Standing up is not itself repentance, and the verb does not prove the king's later faithfulness.
Why does the account begin the king's response with he got up? His rising initiates a visible descent from royal security toward the humility expressed in sackcloth and ashes.
Direct: He got up conveys the ordinary movement, with from his throne giving it its striking social reversal.
The verb simply marks rising; repentance is communicated by the entire sequence and the city's turn from evil. The text calls him king of Nineveh without this form settling questions about his precise historical title.
Bodily action guarantees inward repentance: God later sees the Ninevites' changed ways, not merely the king's posture. one act proves lifelong reform: The narrative reports this crisis response without narrating the king's subsequent reign.
How The Interpretation Is Derived
At Jonah 3:6, the source token וַיָּ֙קָם֙ is H6965, Conj-w | V-Qal-ConsecImperf-3ms. The BSB+ word table row therefore anchors this guide.
קוּם is the lemma behind he got up here. Within Jonah 3:6, H6965 retains this exact lexical identity.
The third masculine singular subject is the king, while from his throne specifies the point he leaves.
Nineveh's ruler leaves throne and robe for sackcloth and ashes, visibly humbling himself under the announced judgment.
No rank places a person beyond the call to turn from evil, though ritual posture must be joined to the changed actions God sees.
Trace the movement from throne to ashes and distinguish the physical act from the fuller repentance sequence.
Do not equate getting up with conversion by itself or infer a permanent political reform from one narrative verb.