יָשֵׁן
yâshên · H3463 · Hebrew · 9 occurrences
Meanings
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sleeping, asleep
State in which humans are asleep; sometimes associated with death, sometimes with being inactive
Examples1 Samuel 26:7 So David and Abishai came to the people by night, and behold, Saul lay sleeping inside the circle of the camp with his spear stuck in the ground at his head; and Abner and the people were lying around him.
1 Samuel 26:12 So David took the spear and the jug of water that were at Saul’s head, and they left; and no one saw or knew about it, nor did anyone awaken, for they were all asleep, because a deep sleep from the LORD had fallen on them.
1 Kings 3:20 “So she got up in the middle of the night and took my son from beside me while your servant was asleep, and she laid him at her breast, and laid her dead son at my breast.
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- אֲדָמָהground 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
5 occurrences in 5 groups
- הוּאhe, she, it 1
- אָמָהfemale servant, maid 1
- אֲנִיI 1
- אָפָהto bake 1
- הֶםtheir 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- כlike/as 2
- מִןfrom 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- שָׂפָהlip 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 1 word
- ὕπνος hýpnos · G5258 · to sleep, to be asleep, sleep
- Greek ὕπνος denotes the state of sleep as a noun (including figurative spiritual torpor), while Hebrew יָשֵׁן is an adjective/participle describing one who is asleep or the act of sleeping; both express the core concept of sleep with complementary grammatical profiles.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Asleep002001001004
- The word describes the state of being asleep, as when Saul and his men lay sleeping in the camp in 1 Samuel 26:7 and 26:12.
- Names of People003001007
- This entry carries no independent "Names of People" sense of its own; every genuine tagged occurrence of יָשֵׁן (1 Samuel 26:7, 26:12, 1 Kings 3:20, 18:27) describes the state of being asleep, not a personal name. The domain is bundle-shared with the identically-spelled personal name Jashen.
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3463. yashen I. יָשֵׁן adjective sleeping; — masculine singular יָשֵׁן 1Sa 26:7 1Sa…
I. יָשֵׁן adjective sleeping; — masculine singular יָשֵׁן 1Sa 26:7 1Sa 26:3t., feminine singular יֲשֵׁנֵה 1Ki 3:20 Cant 52; plural יְשֵׁנִים 1Sa 26:12; Son 7:10; construct יֲשֵׁנֵי Dan 12:2; — asleep, sleeping 1Sa 26:7, 1Sa 26:12; 1Ki 3:20; Son 5:2; Son 7:10; so, figurative, Hos 7:6, explained as = יֶעְשַׁן smoketh, compare Deu 29:19, by RSJ Phil. xvi. 1888, 72; Proph. iv. n. 19 Che with אַמְּהֶם (Ges§ 1. R. 1 a) for אֹפֵהֶם; but < We, their anger sleepeth; of Baal 1Ki 18:27; in simile of ׳י Psa 78:65; of dead, as sleeping in dust, Dan 12:2.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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
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