To slumber
נוּםStrong’s H5123num
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Num is the Hebrew word usually translated “slumbered”, “slumber” and “anyone will slumber”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“The stouthearted are spoiled, they have slept their sleep: and none of the men of might have found their hands.”
Meaning
- To be drowsy, slumber, sleep(Qal) to slumber, be drowsy
How it's translated
- they slumbered 1
- he slumber 1
- he will slumber 1
- anyone will slumber 1
- to slumber 1
- they are slumbering 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 3
- Isaiah 2
- Nahum 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Psalms 121:3He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber.
- Psalms 121:4Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor 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:
- Isaiah 56:10His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.
- Nahum 3:18Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria: thy nobles shall dwell in the dust: thy people is scattered upon the mountains, and no man gathereth them.
Hebrew dictionary
נוּם num · to slumber
1) to be drowsy, slumber, sleep 1a) (Qal) to slumber, be drowsy
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “slumber” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SLUM'BER, verb intransitive
- To sleep lightly; to doze. Psalms 121:4“He that keepth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep” Psalms 121:4
- To sleep. slumber is used as synonymous with sleep, particularly in the poetic and eloquent style.
- To be in a state of negligence, sloth, supineness or inactivity.
All definitions and other forms of “slumber”
SLUM'BER, verb transitive
- To lay to sleep.
- To stun; to stupefy. [Little used and hardly legitimate.]
SLUM'BER, noun
- Light sleep; sleep not deep or sound.
- Sleep; repose.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.