Rise Early
He woke up early. He woke up from his sleep in the early morning hours.
("It is the same for you who are early in the morning, who eat the bread of sorrows, so that he may give to his friend what he hates" - Tehillim 227b, and so: "When my father returned at the fifth hour from his tent before the workers who are early in the morning, he arose" - H. Beer/ Notzot, 182, and so: "A rooster crows early in the morning, / and makes a proclamation for this" - Hananiah Reichman/ Pithamim And from the darkness, a man in his eyes)
Translation
Expression (Hebrew)
הִשְׁכִּים קוּם
Definition (Hebrew)
קָם מֻקְדָּם. הִתְעוֹרֵר מִשְּׁנָתוֹ בִּשְׁעַת בֹּקֶר מֻקְדֶּמֶת.
("שָׁוְא לָכֶם מַשְׁכִּימֵי קוּם מְאַחֲרֵי שֶׁבֶת אֹכְלֵי לֶחֶם הָעֲצָבִים כֵּן יִתֵּן לִידִידוֹ שֵׁנָא"- תְּהִלִּים קכז ב, וְכֵן:"כְּשֶׁבָּא אַבָּא בְּשָׁעָה חָמֵשׁ אֶת חֲנוּתוֹ לִפְנֵי הַפּוֹעֲלִים הַמַּשְׁכִּימִים קוּם"- ח.בְּאֵר/ נוֹצוֹת,182, וְכֵן:"תַּרְנְגוֹל מַשְׁכִּים לָקוּם-/ וְעוֹשֶׂה לְזֹאת פִּרְסוּם"- חֲנַנְיָה רַיְכְמָן/ פִּתְגָּמִים וּמִכְתָּמִים, אָדָם בְּעֵינָיו)