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Hebrew noun (feminine) · H8142

שֵׁנָה

shenahshay-naw'

sleep

23 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: shênâh

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H8142is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 10 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 19
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H8142

sleep

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

shenah is rendered "sleep". It stands 23 times in the Hebrew text, across ten books.

  • Seven of the uses stand in Proverbs, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 28:16When Jacob woke up, he thought, “Surely the LORD is in this place, and I was unaware of it.”
  • The Greek text spells it nineteen different ways.

The first use

When Jacob woke up, he thought, “Surely the LORD is in this place, and I was unaware of it.”

Genesis 28:16מִשְּׁנָתוֹ֒

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Seven of the word's twenty-three uses are in Proverbs.

The other 29 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • sleep5
  • from sleep his4
  • a sleep of2
  • sleep of2
  • sleep their2
  • sleeps2
  • and sleep his1
  • and sleep my1
  • from sleep their1
  • from sleep your1
  • sleep my1
  • sleep your1

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.

שֵׁנִיshenisecondUses156

All 23, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

19 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

  • שֵׁנָ֣ה2
  • שֵׁ֭נוֹת2
  • שְׁנַ֣ת2
  • שְׁנַת־2
  • וּשְׁנָת֖וֹ1
  • וּשְׁנָתִ֖י1
  • מִשְּׁנָתוֹ֒1
  • מִשְּׁנָת֔וֹ1
  • מִשְּׁנָת֗וֹ1
  • מִשְּׁנָתֽוֹ׃1
  • מִשְּׁנָתֶֽךָ׃1
  • מִשְּׁנָתָֽם׃1

and 7 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • noun · feminine singular5HNcfsa
  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)4HNcfsc
  • preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular4HR/Ncfsc/Sp3ms
  • noun · feminine plural2HNcfpa
  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural2HNcfsc/Sp3mp
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HC/Ncfsc/Sp1bs
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HC/Ncfsc/Sp3ms
  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HNcfsc/Sp1bs
  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular1HNcfsc/Sp2ms
  • preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular1HR/Ncfsc/Sp2ms
  • preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1HR/Ncfsc/Sp3mp

Genesis

two uses
  • When Jacob woke up, he thought, “Surely the LORD is in this place, and I was unaware of it.”

    Genesis 28:16

    • מִשְּׁנָתוֹ֒mishenatopreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: from sleep his
  • As it was, the heat consumed me by day and the frost by night, and sleep fled from my eyes.

    Genesis 31:40

    • שְׁנָתִ֖יshenatinoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: sleep my

Judges

two uses
  • So while he slept, Delilah took the seven braids of his hair and wove them into the web. Then she tightened it with a pin and called to him, “Samson, the Philistines are here!” But he awoke from his sleep and pulled out the pin with the loom and the web.

    Judges 16:14

    • מִשְּׁנָת֔וֹmishenatopreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: from sleep his
  • Then she called out, “Samson, the Philistines are here!” When Samson awoke from his sleep, he thought, “I will escape as I did before and shake myself free.” But he did not know that the LORD had departed from him.

    Judges 16:20

    • מִשְּׁנָת֗וֹmishenatopreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: from sleep his

Esther

one use
  • That night sleep escaped the king; so he ordered the Book of Records, the Chronicles, to be brought in and read to him.

    Esther 6:1

    • שְׁנַ֣תshenatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: sleep of

Job

one use
  • so a man lies down and does not rise. Until the heavens are no more, he will not be awakened or roused from sleep.

    Job 14:12

    • מִשְּׁנָתָֽם׃mishenatampreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: from sleep their

Psalms

three uses
  • The valiant lie plundered; they sleep their last sleep. No men of might could lift a hand.

    Psalms 76:5

    • שְׁנָתָ֑םshenatamnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: sleep their
  • You whisk them away in their sleep; they are like the new grass of the morning—

    Psalms 90:5

    • שֵׁנָ֣הshenahnoun · feminine singulartagged: sleep
  • In vain you rise early and stay up late, toiling for bread to eat— for He gives sleep to His beloved.

    Psalms 127:2

    • שֵׁנָֽא׃shena'noun · feminine singulartagged: sleep

Proverbs

seven uses
  • When you lie down, you will not be afraid; when you rest, your sleep will be sweet.

    Proverbs 3:24

    • שְׁנָתֶֽךָ׃shenatekhanoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: sleep your
  • For they cannot sleep unless they do evil; they are deprived of slumber until they make someone fall.

    Proverbs 4:16

    • שְׁ֝נָתָ֗םshenatamnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: sleep their
  • Allow no sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids.

    Proverbs 6:4

    • שֵׁנָ֣הshenahnoun · feminine singulartagged: sleep
  • How long will you lie there, O slacker? When will you get up from your sleep?

    Proverbs 6:9

    • מִשְּׁנָתֶֽךָ׃mishenatekhapreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: from sleep your
  • A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest,

    Proverbs 6:10

    • שֵׁ֭נוֹתshenotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: sleeps
  • Do not love sleep, or you will grow poor; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of food.

    Proverbs 20:13

    • שֵׁ֭נָהshenahnoun · feminine singulartagged: sleep
  • A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest,

    Proverbs 24:33

    • שֵׁ֭נוֹתshenotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: sleeps

Ecclesiastes

two uses
  • The sleep of the worker is sweet, whether he eats little or much, but the abundance of the rich man permits him no sleep.

    Ecclesiastes 5:12

    • שְׁנַ֣תshenatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: sleep of
  • When I applied my mind to know wisdom and to observe the task that one performs on the earth—though his eyes do not see sleep in the day or even in the night—

    Ecclesiastes 8:16

    • שֵׁנָ֕הshenahnoun · feminine singulartagged: sleep

Jeremiah

three uses
  • At this I awoke and looked around. My sleep had been most pleasant to me.

    Jeremiah 31:26

    • וּשְׁנָתִ֖יushenaticonjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: and sleep my
  • 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.

    Jeremiah 51:39

    • שְׁנַת־shenat-noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a sleep of
  • 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.

    Jeremiah 51:57

    • שְׁנַת־shenat-noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a sleep of

Daniel

one use
  • In the second year of his reign, Nebuchadnezzar had dreams that troubled his spirit, and sleep escaped him.

    Daniel 2:1

    • וּשְׁנָת֖וֹushenatoconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and sleep his

Zechariah

one use
  • Then the angel who was speaking with me returned and woke me, as a man is awakened from his sleep.

    Zechariah 4:1

    • מִשְּׁנָתֽוֹ׃mishenatopreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: from sleep his

The letters

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.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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