Sleep
שְׁנָהStrong’s H8142shenah (she-nah)
Appears in 23 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shenah is the Hebrew word usually translated “sleep”, “from sleep his” and “sleep of”. It appears in 23 verses of the Old Testament.
“And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, wherewith his spirit was troubled, and his sleep brake from him.”
Meaning
- Sleep
How it's translated
- sleep 7
- from sleep his 4
- sleep of 2
- sleep their 2
- a sleep of 2
- sleep my 1
- from sleep their 1
- sleep your 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 7
- Psalms 3
- Jeremiah 3
- Genesis 2
- Judges 2
- Ecclesiastes 2
10 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Zechariah 4:1In contextAnd the angel that talked with me came again, and waked me, as a man that is wakened out of his sleep,
- Genesis 28:16And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the LORD is in this place; and I knew it not.
- Genesis 31:40Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.
- Judges 16:14And she fastened it with the pin, and said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awaked out of his sleep, and went away with the pin of the beam, and with the web.
- Judges 16:20And she said, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself. And he wist not that the LORD was departed from him.
- Esther 6:1On that night could not the king sleep, and he commanded to bring the book of records of the chronicles; and they were read before the king.
Hebrew dictionary
שְׁנָה shenah · sleep
sleep Aramaic of she.nah (שֵׁנָה "sleep" H8142)
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.