Deep sleep
תַּרְדֵּמָהStrong’s H8639tardemah (tar-de-mah)
Appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tardemah is the Hebrew word usually translated “deep sleep” and “deep sleep of”. It appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;”
Meaning
- Deep sleep, trance
How it's translated
- deep sleep 4
- a deep sleep 1
- and a deep sleep 1
- deep sleep of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 2
- Job 2
- 1 Samuel 1
- Proverbs 1
- Isaiah 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 15:12And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.
- 1 Samuel 26:12So David took the spear and the cruse of water from Saul’s bolster; and they gat them away, and no man saw it, nor knew it, neither awaked: for they were all asleep; because a deep sleep from the LORD was fallen upon them.
- Job 4:13In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men,
- Job 33:15In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;
- Proverbs 19:15Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.
- Isaiah 29:10For the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered.
Hebrew dictionary
תַּרְדֵּמָה tardemah · deep sleep
deep sleep, trance
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.