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Deep sleep

תַּרְדֵּמָהStrong’s H8639

tardemah (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;”
Genesis 2:21 KJV
Meaning
  1. 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.

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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.