Hebrew adjective · H3463
יָשֵׁן
yashenyaw-shane'
sleeping
9 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 H3463is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 6 of 39Old Testament books
- 9spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3463
sleepy
The King James renders it: asleep, (one out of) sleep(-eth, -ing), slept.
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 "sleeping". It stands 9 times in the Hebrew text, across six books.
- Two of the uses stand in 1 Samuel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Samuel 26:7That night David and Abishai came to the troops, and Saul was lying there asleep in the inner circle of the camp, with his spear stuck in the ground by his head. And Abner and the troops were lying around him.
- The Greek text spells it nine different ways.
The first use
That night David and Abishai came to the troops, and Saul was lying there asleep in the inner circle of the camp, with his spear stuck in the ground by his head. And Abner and the troops were lying around him.
1 Samuel 26:7יָשֵׁן֙
The first use, in the order of the Old 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
- sleeping6
- like a sleeper1
- of sleepers of1
- sleepers1
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.
All 9, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
9 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
- יָשֵׁן֙1
- יָשֵׁ֥ן1
- יָשֵׁ֣ן1
- יְשֵׁנָ֔ה1
- יְשֵׁנָ֖ה1
- יְשֵׁנִ֔ים1
- יְשֵׁנִֽים׃1
- כְּיָשֵׁ֥ן׀1
- מִיְּשֵׁנֵ֥י1
The grammar of each form
- adjective · masculine singular3HAamsa
- adjective · feminine singular2HAafsa
- adjective · masculine plural2HAampa
- preposition + adjective · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HR/Aampc
- preposition + adjective · masculine singular1HR/Aamsa
1 Samuel
two uses
That night David and Abishai came to the troops, and Saul was lying there asleep in the inner circle of the camp, with his spear stuck in the ground by his head. And Abner and the troops were lying around him.
- יָשֵׁן֙yashenadjective · masculine singulartagged: sleeping
So David took the spear and water jug by Saul’s head, and they departed. No one saw them or knew about it, nor did anyone wake up; they all remained asleep, because a deep sleep from the LORD had fallen on them.
- יְשֵׁנִ֔יםyeshenimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: sleeping
1 Kings
two uses
So she got up in the middle of the night and took my son from my side while I was asleep. She laid him in her bosom and put her dead son at my bosom.
- יְשֵׁנָ֔הyeshenahadjective · feminine singulartagged: sleeping
At noon Elijah began to taunt them, saying, “Shout louder, for he is a god! Perhaps he is deep in thought, or occupied, or on a journey. Perhaps he is sleeping and must be awakened!”
- יָשֵׁ֥ןyashenadjective · masculine singulartagged: sleeping
Psalms
one use
Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, like a mighty warrior overcome by wine.
- כְּיָשֵׁ֥ן׀keyashenpreposition + adjective · masculine singulartagged: like a sleeper
Song of Solomon
two uses
I sleep, but my heart is awake. A sound! My beloved is knocking: “Open to me, my sister, my darling, my dove, my flawless one. My head is drenched with dew, my hair with the dampness of the night.”
- יְשֵׁנָ֖הyeshenahadjective · feminine singulartagged: sleeping
and your mouth like the finest wine. May it flow smoothly to my beloved, gliding gently over lips and teeth.
- יְשֵׁנִֽים׃yeshenimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: sleepers
Daniel
one use
And many who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, but others to shame and everlasting contempt.
- מִיְּשֵׁנֵ֥יmiyesheneipreposition + adjective · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: of sleepers of
Hosea
one use
For they prepare their heart like an oven while they lie in wait; all night their anger smolders; in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.
- יָשֵׁ֣ןyashenadjective · masculine singulartagged: sleeping
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 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.