Drowsiness
נוּמָהStrong’s H5124numah (nu-mah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Numah is the Hebrew word usually translated “drowsiness”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.”
Meaning
- Drowsiness, somnolence, indolence (fig.)
How it's translated
- drowsiness 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
נוּמָה numah · drowsiness
drowsiness, somnolence, indolence (fig.)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “drowsiness” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DROWSINESS, noun
- Sleepiness; heaviness with sleep; disposition to sleep.
- Sluggishness; sloth; idleness; inactivity.
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.