Word

ὕπνος

hýpnos · G5258 · Greek · 6 occurrences

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Meanings

to sleep, to be asleep, sleep

The state of being asleep

Examples
Matthew 1:24 And Joseph awoke from his sleep and did as the angel of the Lord commanded him, and took Mary as his wife,
Luke 9:32 Now Peter and his companions had been overcome with sleep; but when they were fully awake, they saw His glory and the two men who were standing with Him.
John 11:13 Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that He was speaking about actual sleep.

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

1 occurrences in 1 groups

βαθύςdeep 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

3 occurrences in 2 groups

ἀπόfrom 4
ἐκfrom 2

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

κοίμησιςsleep, rest 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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In the other Testament 2 words

שֵׁנָה shênâh · H8142 · sleep: שֵׁנָה (shênâh, H8142) is the Hebrew lexical equivalent for the literal sense of sleep that ὕπνος (hýpnos, G5258) denotes in its primary usage, with both terms referring to the natural state of rest and both capable of figurative extension (Hebrew: deep sleep as divine activity; Greek: spiritual torpor).
יָשֵׁן yâshên · H3463 · sleeping, asleep: Greek ὕπνος (sleep, including figurative spiritual torpor) translates Hebrew יָשֵׁן (asleep, sleeping) in LXX alignment data, reflecting the concrete state of sleep shared across both languages.

Semantic domains 1 entry

To sleep, to be asleep, sleep23.66: Matthew 1:24 describes Joseph waking “from his sleep” and acting on the angel's instruction.

Word family 8 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

ὕπνοςhýpnos · G5258ἀγρυπνέω agrypnéō · G69 · to be alert, to be on the lookout for, to be vigilant · 4×ἀγρυπνία agrypnía · G70 · sleeplessness · 2×ἐνυπνιάζομαι enypniázomai · G1797 · to dream · 2×ἀφυπνόω aphypnóō · G879 · to fall asleep · 1×ἐνύπνιον enýpnion · G1798 · dream · 1×ἐξυπνίζω exypnízō · G1852 · to cause to wake up, to awaken someone, to wake up someone · 1×ἔξυπνος éxypnos · G1853 · having awakened, awake after having slept · 1×

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ὕπνου, ὁ (i. e. συπνος, cf. Latinsopnus, somnus; Curtius, § 391), from Homer down, Hebrew…

ὕπνου, ὁ (i. e. συπνος, cf. Latinsopnus, somnus; Curtius, § 391), from Homer down, Hebrew שֵׁנָה, sleep: properly, Mt 1:24; Lk 9:32; Jn 11:13; Acts 20:9; metaphorically, ἐξ ὕπνου ἐγερθῆναι (see ἐγείρω, 1), Rom 13:11.

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Sleep, Waking6 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0