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Strong's numbers

יָשֵׁן (H3462)

yâshên

yaw-shane'

a primitive root; properly, to be slack or languid, i.e. (by implication) sleep (figuratively, to die); also to grow old, stale or inveterate; old (store), remain long, (make to) sleep.

Brown–Driver–Briggs

[יָשֵׁן] vb. sleep
Qal sleep, go to sleep, and be sleep
Niph. only in deriv. sense of become inactive or stationary
Pi. causat. she made him sleep

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

19 occurrences

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  • Psalms 13:3
    Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;
  • Psalms 44:23
    Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.
  • Psalms 121:4
    Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.
  • Proverbs 4:16
    For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
  • Ecclesiastes 5:12
    The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.
  • Isaiah 5:27
    None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:
  • Jeremiah 51:39
    In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the LORD.
  • Jeremiah 51:57
    And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.
  • Ezekiel 34:25
    And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land: and they shall dwell safely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.