Strongs's #3462: yashen - Greek/Hebrew Definitions

Greek/Hebrew Definitions

Strong's #3462: yashen (pronounced 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 Hebrew Lexicon:

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yâshên

1) to sleep, be asleep

1a) (Qal) to sleep, go to sleep, be asleep
1b) (Niphal)

1b1) to remain a long time, be stored up
1b2) to be festering (of leprosy)

1c) (Piel) to cause to sleep, entice to sleep

Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 19 times:

Genesis 2:21: "to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs,"
Genesis 41:5: " And he slept and dreamed the second time: and, behold, seven ears of corn upon one"
Leviticus 13:11: "It is an old leprosy in the skin of his flesh, and the priest and shall not"
Leviticus 26:10: "And ye shall eat old store, old store, and bring forth the old because of the new."
Deuteronomy 4:25: "children, and children's children, and ye shall have remained long and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image,"
Judges 16:19: " And she made him sleep upon her knees; and she called for a man, and she caused him to shave off the seven"
1 Kings 19:5: "And as he lay and slept under a juniper tree, behold, an angel"
Job 3:13: "now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then"
Psalms 3:5: "I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD"
Psalms 4:8: "I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, only"
Psalms 13:3: "lighten mine eyes, I sleep the sleep of death;"
Psalms 44:23: "Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast off forever."
Psalms 121:4: "shall neither slumber nor sleep."
Proverbs 4:16: "For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep"
Ecclesiastes 5:12: "of the rich will not suffer him to sleep."
Isaiah 5:27: "among them; none shall slumber sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed,"
Jeremiah 51:39: "and I will make them drunken, that and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake,"
Jeremiah 51:57: "men, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake,"
Ezekiel 34:25: "and they shall dwell safely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods."

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