To sleep
רָדַםStrong’s H7290radam (ra-dam)
Appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Radam is the Hebrew word usually translated “sleeping”, “sleeps” and “was dazed”. It appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament.
“Now as he was speaking with me, I was in a deep sleep on my face toward the ground: but he touched me, and set me upright.”
Meaning
- (Niphal) to be asleep, be unconscious, be in heavy sleep, fall into heavy sleep, be fast asleep
How it's translated
- sleeping 3
- sleeps 1
- i was dazed 1
- dazed 1
- and he had fallen fast asleep 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 2
- Jonah 2
- Judges 1
- Psalms 1
- Proverbs 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 10:9In contextYet heard I the voice of his words: and when I heard the voice of his words, then was I in a deep sleep on my face, and my face toward the ground.
- Judges 4:21Then Jael Heber’s wife took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died.
- Psalms 76:6At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, both the chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep.
- Proverbs 10:5He that gathereth in summer is a wise son: but he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame.
- Jonah 1:5Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his god, and cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it of them. But Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep.
- Jonah 1:6So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.
Hebrew dictionary
רָדַם radam · to sleep
(Niphal) to be asleep, be unconscious, be in heavy sleep, fall into heavy sleep, be fast asleep
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “sleep” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SLEEP, verb intransitive
preterit tense and participle passive slept.
- To take rest by a suspension of the voluntary exercise of the powers of the body and mind.
- To rest; to be unemployed; to be inactive or motionless; as, the sword sleeps in its sheath.
- To rest; to lie or be still; not to be noticed or agitated.
- To live thoughtlessly.
All definitions and other forms of “sleep”
- To be dead; to rest in the grave for a time.
- To be careless, inattentive or unconcerned; not be vigilant.
SLEEP, noun
That state of an animal in which the voluntary exertion of his mental and corporeal powers is suspended, and he rests unconscious of what passes around him, and not affected by the ordinary impressions of external objects. sleep is generally attended with a relaxation of the muscles, but the involuntary motions, as respiration and the circulation of the blood, are continued. The mind is often very active in sleep; but its powers not being under the control of reason, its exercises are very irregular. sleep is the natural rest or repose intended by the Creator to restore the powers of the body and mind, when exhausted or fatigued.
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.