Hebrew verb · H3462
יָשֵׁן
yashenyaw-shane'
to sleep
19 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: yâshên
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3462is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 12 of 39Old Testament books
- 17spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3462
properly, to be slack or languid, i.e. (by implication) sleep (figuratively, to die); also to grow old, stale or inveterate
The King James renders it: old (store), remain long, (make to) 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
yashen is rendered "to sleep". It stands 19 times in the Hebrew text, across twelve books.
- Five of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 2:21So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep, and while he slept, He took one of the man’s ribs and closed up the area with flesh.
- The Greek text spells it seventeen different ways.
The first use
So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep, and while he slept, He took one of the man’s ribs and closed up the area with flesh.
Genesis 2:21וַיִּישָׁ֑ן
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Five of the word's nineteen uses are in Psalms.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and they will sleep3
- and he slept2
- and he fell asleep1
- and I may sleep1
- and I slept1
- and she made sleep him1
- and you will grow old1
- anyone will sleep1
- do you sleep1
- growing old1
- grown old1
- he will sleep1
and 4 more, 19 uses in all
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.
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
The words it stands beside
All 19, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
17 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
- וְיָשְׁנ֥וּ2
- יִישָׁ֑ן2
- אִישַׁ֥ן1
- וְאִ֫ישָׁ֥ן1
- וָֽאִ֫ישָׁ֥נָה1
- וַיִּישַׁ֔ן1
- וַיִּישָׁ֑ן1
- וַיִּישָׁ֕ן1
- וְיָשְׁנ֖וּ1
- וְנוֹשַׁנְתֶּ֖ם1
- וַתְּיַשְּׁנֵ֙הוּ֙1
- יִֽ֭שְׁנוּ1
and 5 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- Hc/Vqq3cp3Hc/Vqq3cp
- Hc/Vqw3ms3Hc/Vqw3ms
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular2HVqi3ms
- Hc/VNq2mp1Hc/VNq2mp
- Hc/Vpw3fs/Sp3ms1Hc/Vpw3fs/Sp3ms
- HC/Vqu1cs1HC/Vqu1cs
- Hc/Vqw1cs/Sh1Hc/Vqw1cs/Sh
- preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)1HR/Vqcc
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · feminine singular1HVNrfsa
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singular1HVNrmsa
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular1HVqi1cs
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular1HVqi2ms
Genesis
two uses
So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep, and while he slept, He took one of the man’s ribs and closed up the area with flesh.
- וַיִּישָׁ֑ןvaiyishanHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he fell asleep
but he fell back asleep and dreamed a second time: Seven heads of grain, plump and ripe, came up on one stalk.
- וַיִּישָׁ֕ןvaiyishanHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he slept
Leviticus
two uses
it is a chronic skin disease and the priest must pronounce him unclean. He need not isolate him, for he is unclean.
- נוֹשֶׁ֤נֶתnoshenetverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · feminine singulartagged: grown old
You will still be eating the old supply of grain when you need to clear it out to make room for the new.
- נוֹשָׁ֑ןnoshanverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: growing old
Deuteronomy
one use
After you have children and grandchildren and you have been in the land a long time, if you then act corruptly and make an idol of any form—doing evil in the sight of the LORD your God and provoking Him to anger—
- וְנוֹשַׁנְתֶּ֖םvenoshantemHc/VNq2mptagged: and you will grow old
Judges
one use
And having lulled him to sleep on her lap, she called a man to shave off the seven braids of his head. In this way she began to subdue him, and his strength left him.
- וַתְּיַשְּׁנֵ֙הוּ֙vateyashenehuHc/Vpw3fs/Sp3mstagged: and she made sleep him
1 Kings
one use
Then he lay down under the broom tree and fell asleep. Suddenly an angel touched him and said, “Get up and eat.”
- וַיִּישַׁ֔ןvaiyishanHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he slept
Job
one use
For now I would be lying down in peace; I would be asleep and at rest
- יָ֝שַׁ֗נְתִּיyashantiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I slept
Psalms
five uses
I lie down and sleep; I wake again, for the LORD sustains me.
- וָֽאִ֫ישָׁ֥נָהvaishanahHc/Vqw1cs/Shtagged: and I slept
I will lie down and sleep in peace, for You alone, O LORD, make me dwell in safety.
- וְאִ֫ישָׁ֥ןveishanHC/Vqu1cstagged: and I may sleep
Consider me and respond, O LORD my God. Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death,
- אִישַׁ֥ןʾishanverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I should sleep
Wake up, O Lord! Why are You sleeping? Arise! Do not reject us forever.
- תִישַׁ֥ן׀tishanverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: do you sleep
Behold, the Protector of Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.
- יִישָׁ֑ןyishanverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will sleep
Proverbs
one use
For they cannot sleep unless they do evil; they are deprived of slumber until they make someone fall.
- יִֽ֭שְׁנוּyishnuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will sleep
Ecclesiastes
one use
The sleep of the worker is sweet, whether he eats little or much, but the abundance of the rich man permits him no sleep.
- לִישֽׁוֹן׃lishonpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to sleep
Isaiah
one use
None of them grows weary or stumbles; no one slumbers or sleeps. No belt is loose and no sandal strap is broken.
- יִישָׁ֑ןyishanverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: anyone will sleep
Jeremiah
two uses
While they are flushed with heat, I will serve them a feast, and I will make them drunk so that they may revel; then they will fall asleep forever and never wake up, declares the LORD.
- וְיָשְׁנ֥וּveyashenuHc/Vqq3cptagged: and they will sleep
I will make her princes and wise men drunk, along with her governors, officials, and warriors. Then they will fall asleep forever and not wake up,” declares the King, whose name is the LORD of Hosts.
- וְיָשְׁנ֥וּveyashenuHc/Vqq3cptagged: and they will sleep
Ezekiel
one use
I will make with them a covenant of peace and rid the land of wild animals, so that they may dwell securely in the wilderness and sleep in the forest.
- וְיָשְׁנ֖וּveyashenuHc/Vqq3cptagged: and they will sleep
The letters
Gematria 360· 1,010 mispar gadol
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.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.