Strong H3462יָשֵׁן
to sleep
- Transliteration
- yâshên
- Pronunciation
- yaw-shane'
- Morphology
- Hebrew Verb
Definition
A primitive root; properly to be slack or {languid} that {is} (by implication) sleep (figuratively to die); also to grow {old} stale or inveterate: - old ({store}) remain {long} (make to) sleep.
Detailed definition
1) to sleep, be asleep
1a) (Qal) to sleep, go to sleep, be asleep
1b) (Niphal)
1b1) to remain a long time, be stored up
1b2) to be festering (of leprosy)
1c) (Piel) to cause to sleep, entice to sleep
1a) (Qal) to sleep, go to sleep, be asleep
1b) (Niphal)
1b1) to remain a long time, be stored up
1b2) to be festering (of leprosy)
1c) (Piel) to cause to sleep, entice to sleep
In the Bible
Strong H3462 appears in 19 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- sleep12
- slept3
- old1
- remain1
- sleepest1
- store1
First verses
- Genesis 2:21And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;
- Genesis 41:5And he slept and dreamed the second time: and, behold, seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good.
- Leviticus 13:11It is an old leprosy in the skin of his flesh, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean, and shall not shut him up: for he is unclean.
- Leviticus 26:10And ye shall eat old store, and bring forth the old because of the new.
- Deuteronomy 4:25When thou shalt beget children, and children’s children, and ye shall have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, and shall do evil in the sight of the Lord thy God, to provoke him to anger:
- Judges 16:19And she made him sleep upon her knees; and she called for a man, and she caused him to shave off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him.
- 1 Kings 19:5And as he lay and slept under a juniper tree, behold, then an angel touched him, and said unto him, Arise and eat.
- Job 3:13For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
- Psalms 3:5I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the Lord sustained me.
- Psalms 4:8I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, Lord, only makest me dwell in safety.
- Psalms 13:3Consider and hear me, O Lord my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;
- Psalms 44:23Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.
- Psalms 121:4Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.
- Proverbs 4:16For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
- Ecclesiastes 5:12The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.
- Isaiah 5:27None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:
- Jeremiah 51:39In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the Lord.
- Jeremiah 51:57And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is the Lord of hosts.
- Ezekiel 34:25And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land: and they shall dwell safely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.