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H8142שֵׁנָה shênâh — sleepH8139שְׁנָה shᵉnâh — {sleep}H8153שְׁנָת shᵉnâth — sleepG5258ὕπνος hýpnos — sleep, i.e. (figuratively) spiritual torporG2518καθεύδω katheúdō — to lie down to rest, i.e. (by
implication) to fall asleep (literally or figuratively)H3462יָשֵׁן yâshên — properly, to be slack or languid, i.e. (by implication) sleep (figuratively, to die)
Verses(5+)
- Verse1 Thessalonians 5:7For those who sleep, sleep at night; and those who get drunk, get drunk at night.
- VerseProverbs 6:4Allow no sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids.
- VersePsalms 76:5The valiant lie plundered; they sleep their last sleep. No men of might could lift a hand.
- VerseProverbs 19:15Laziness brings on deep sleep, and an idle soul will suffer hunger.
- VersePsalms 121:4Behold, the Protector of Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.
Words (Strong's)(5+)
- WordH8142 שֵׁנָה · shênâh (Hebrew)sleep
- WordH8139 שְׁנָה · shᵉnâh (Hebrew){sleep}
- WordH8153 שְׁנָת · shᵉnâth (Hebrew)sleep
- WordG5258 ὕπνος · hýpnos (Greek)sleep, i.e. (figuratively) spiritual torpor
- WordG2518 καθεύδω · katheúdō (Greek)to lie down to rest, i.e. (by implication) to fall asleep (literally or figuratively)
Themes(2)
- ThemeResurrectionThe hope of resurrection surfaces gradually across the Old Testament before it becomes explicit. Job — likely the oldest book in the canon — already confesses a living Redeemer…
- ThemeCovenantIn Scripture a covenant is not a vague feeling. It is a formal, oath-bound promise between named parties, with a stated promise and usually a visible sign to mark it. (The…
Topics(1)
Authors(5+)
- AuthorPolycrates Of EphesusAround the year 190 the churches of the Roman empire nearly split over a calendar. The question was when to keep the Passover — the Christian Pascha. The churches of Asia Minor…
- AuthorNemesius of EmesaNemesius was bishop of Emesa in Syria — the city now called Homs — at the end of the fourth century. Practically nothing is known about his life beyond the one book he left…
- AuthorOrigen of AlexandriaOrigen was about seventeen when the persecution under Septimius Severus took his father. Leonides was arrested at Alexandria in 202 and beheaded, and his property was…
- AuthorKeith GreenKeith Green was a child performer in Los Angeles with a record contract at eleven, and spent his teens looking for God in eastern religion and drugs before he and his wife…
- AuthorJohn OwenJohn Owen was born in 1616 at Stadhampton, a village about five miles from Oxford, where his father was a Puritan vicar. He went up to Queen's College, Oxford, at twelve and…
Apocrypha (study resources)(5+)
- Study resourceSirach 31:1Watching for riches consumeth the flesh, and the care thereof driveth away sleep.
- Study resource2 Esdras 11:8Watch not all at once: sleep every one in his own place, and watch by course:
- Study resourceSirach 31:2Watching care will not let a man slumber, as a sore disease breaketh sleep,
- Study resource1 Enoch 91:10And the righteous shall arise from their sleep, And wisdom shall arise and be given unto them.
- Study resourceWisdom of Solomon 17:14But they sleeping the same sleep that night, which was indeed intolerable, and which came upon them out of the bottoms of inevitable hell,