Sleep
שְׁנָתStrong’s H8153shenat (she-nat)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Shenat is the Hebrew word usually translated “sleep”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“I will not give sleep to mine eyes, or slumber to mine eyelids,”
Meaning
- Sleep
How it's translated
- sleep 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
שְׁנָת shenat · sleep
sleep
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.