Slumber
תְּנוּמָהStrong’s H8572tenumah (te-nu-mah)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tenumah is the Hebrew word usually translated “slumber”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;”
Meaning
- Slumber, slumberings, sleep
How it's translated
- slumber 3
- in slumber 1
- and slumber 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 3
- Job 1
- Psalms 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Psalms 132:4I will not give sleep to mine eyes, or slumber to mine eyelids,
- Proverbs 6:4Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.
- Proverbs 6:10Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
- Proverbs 24:33Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
Hebrew dictionary
תְּנוּמָה tenumah · slumber
slumber, slumberings, sleep
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.