Greek noun (masculine) · G5258
ὕπνος
hypnoshoop'-nos
sleep
6 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: hýpnos
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G5258is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 27New Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G5258
sleep, i.e. (figuratively) spiritual torpor
The King James renders it: sleep.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
hypnos is rendered "sleep". It stands 6 times in the Greek text, across five books.
- Two of the uses stand in Acts, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 1:24When Joseph woke up, he did as the angel of the Lord had commanded him, and embraced Mary as his wife.
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
When Joseph woke up, he did as the angel of the Lord had commanded him, and embraced Mary as his wife.
Matthew 1:24ὕπνου
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- sleep3
- by sleep1
- of sleep1
- with sleep1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 6, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- ὕπνου4
- ὕπνῳ2
The grammar of each form
- noun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singular4N-GSM
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singular2N-DSM
Matthew
one use
When Joseph woke up, he did as the angel of the Lord had commanded him, and embraced Mary as his wife.
- ὕπνουhupnounoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singulartagged: sleep
Luke
one use
Meanwhile Peter and his companions were overcome by sleep, but when they awoke, they saw Jesus’ glory and the two men standing with Him.
- ὕπνῳhupnonoun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singulartagged: with sleep
John
one use
They thought that Jesus was talking about actual sleep, but He was speaking about the death of Lazarus.
- ὕπνουhupnounoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singulartagged: of sleep
Acts
two uses
And 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.
- ὕπνῳhupnonoun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singulartagged: by sleep
- ὕπνουhupnounoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singulartagged: sleep
Romans
one use
And do this, understanding the occasion. The hour has come for you to wake up from your slumber, for our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed.
- ὕπνουhupnounoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singulartagged: sleep
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.