נוּם
nûwm · H5123 · Hebrew · 6 occurrences
Meanings
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to slumber, to sleep
State in which humans or animals are in a state of a relatively light sleep; sometimes associated with death, sometimes with being inactive
ExamplesPsalm 76:5 The stouthearted were plundered, They sank into sleep; And none of the warriors could use his hands.
Psalm 121:3 He will not allow your foot to slip; He who watches over you will not slumber.
Psalm 121:4 Behold, He who watches over Israel Will neither slumber nor sleep.
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
Who or what does itSubject
6 occurrences in 5 groups
- Not stated: he, she or it 2
- רֹעִיshepherd 1
- שָׁמַרto keep, to guard, to observe 1
- Not stated: they 1
- Not stated (infinitive) 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- שֵׁנָהsleep 1
With adverbsAdverbs
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- לֹאnot 2
- אַלnot, do not 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- לto/for 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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Near synonyms 3 words
- הָזָה hâzâh · H1957 · to murmur in one's sleep
- Both terms denote sleep or slumber, a genuine same-language overlap between two words for the same state.
- רָדַם râdam · H7290 · to lie in a deep sleep, to lie still
- Both terms denote states of sleep or slumber — one "sleep, slumber," the other "be fast asleep, be in a deep sleep" — overlapping sleep states.
- יָשֵׁן yâshên · H3462 · to sleep, to fall asleep, to put to sleep
- Both words denote sleeping or slumber, and either could substitute for the other in many contexts.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Asleep002001001004
- נוּם denotes slumbering, as in Psalm 121:4's assurance that the Keeper of Israel "will neither slumber nor sleep," and the sluggard's brief slumber leading to poverty (Proverbs 6:10, 24:33), tying the word to the state of drifting into sleep.
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5123. num נוּם verb be drowsy, slumber (Late Hebrew נִמְנֵם נוּם, id.; Aramaic נוּם, ;…
נוּם verb be drowsy, slumber (Late Hebrew נִמְנֵם נוּם, id.; Aramaic נוּם, ; Arabic () id.; Ethiopic ); —
Qal Perfect3plural נָמ֫וּ Nah 3:18; Psa 76:6 (Ges§ 72 l); Imperfect יָנוּם Psa 121:3 Psa 121:2t.; 3 feminine singular וַתָּ֫נָם 2Sa 4:6 (so read for HCT וַיַּכֻּהו, with other radical changes, ᵐ5 Th We Dr Kit Bu HPS); Infinitive construct לָנוּם Isa 56:10. — be drowsy, slumber, literal וַתִּישָׁ֑ן וַתָּנָם 2Sa 4:6 (emendation, see above) and she grew drowsy and slept; figurative of inactivity, indolence, Isa 5:27 (|| ישׁן), Psa 121:3; Psa 121:4 (of ׳י; || id.); Nah 3:18 (|| שָׁכֵן); לָנ ׳אֹהֲבֵי Isa 56:10 (|| שָׁכַב); followed by accusative of congnate meaning with verb שֵׁנָה Psa 76:6 (of death, || נִרְדַּם).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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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