Word

תַּרְדֵּמָה

tardêmâh · H8639 · Hebrew · 7 occurrences

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Meanings

deep sleep

State in which humans are deeply asleep; sometimes associated with having dreams and visions, sometimes with being inactive

Examples
Genesis 2:21 So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then He took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh at that place.
Genesis 15:12 Now when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and behold, terror and great darkness fell upon 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.

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

יְהֹוָהthe LORD, YHWH 1

What it doesIt is the subject

4 occurrences in 1 groups

נָפַלto fall 4

What is done to itIt is the object

2 occurrences in 1 groups

נָפַלto fall 2

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

רוּחַspirit, wind 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 1 word

תְּנוּמָה tᵉnûwmâh · H8572 · slumber: Both words denote states of sleep: תְּנוּמָה (slumber) suggests a lighter or partial sleep, while תַּרְדֵּמָה (deep sleep) denotes a more profound state; they are distinct Hebrew words that could substitute for one another in certain contexts.

Semantic domains 1 entry

Asleep002001001004: This noun denotes a profound sleep, as in Genesis 2:21's account of the LORD God causing a deep sleep to fall upon the man before taking one of his ribs.

Word family 2 words

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

רָדַם râdam · H7290 · to lie in a deep sleep, to lie still · 7×תַּרְדֵּמָהtardêmâh · H8639

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H8639. tardemah תַּרְדֵּמָה noun feminine deep sleep; — absolute ׳ת Gen 2:21 +; construct…

H8639. tardemah
תַּרְדֵּמָה noun feminine deep sleep; — absolute ׳ת Gen 2:21 +; construct תַּרְדֵּמַת 1Sa 26:12; — deep sleep, usually with נָפַל + עַל person, and usually by supernatural agency: י ׳וַיַמֵּל ׳א ׳ת עַל Gen 2:21 (J; ᵐ5 ἔκστασις), ׳ת עַל נָָֽפְלָח Gen 15:12 (J; ᵐ5 id.), Job 4:13 = Job 33:15 (ᵐ5 [δεινὸς], φόβος), so י ׳תַּרְדֵּמַת 1Sa 26:12 (ᵐ5 θάμβος, result of slothfulness (על and person omitted) Pro 19:15; figurative for insensibility of spirit, י עֲלֵיכֶם ׳נָסַךְ ת ׳רוּחַ Isa 29:10.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Asleep7 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