Word Study · Strong's G5258 · Greek
ὕπνος
hypnos
hoop'-nos
Strong's 1890 spelling: hýpnos
“sleep, i.e. (figuratively) spiritual torpor”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
sleep, i.e. (figuratively) spiritual torpor
Rendered in the KJV as
sleep.
- 6occurrencesin the New Testament
- 5 of 27New Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 3inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 6 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 3
- ὕπνου4
- ὕπνῳ1
- ὕπνῳ.1
How it is rendered · 4
- sleep3
- by sleep1
- of sleep1
- with sleep.1
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 2
- noun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singular4
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singular2
Show the grammar codes as tagged
- N-GSM · 4
- N-DSM · 2
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The ledger of occurrences
Where this word lives
Acts carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.
Acts2 occurrences
- Acts 20:9ὕπνῳhupnōnoun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singularAnd a certain young man named Eutychus, seated in the window, was sinking into a deep sleep as Paul talked on and on. When he was sound asleep, he fell from the third story and was picked up dead.here: by sleep
- Acts 20:9ὕπνουhupnounoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singularAnd a certain young man named Eutychus, seated in the window, was sinking into a deep sleep as Paul talked on and on. When he was sound asleep, he fell from the third story and was picked up dead.here: sleep