יָשֵׁןyâshên

asleep, sleeping (1 Samuel 26:7; 1 Kings 3:20; Song of Solomon 52:1-200; 1 Samuel 26:12; Song of Solomon 7:10)

Pronunciation: yaw-shane' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3463

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 9 times in the Bible.

  • 1 Samuel 26:7 So David and Abishai went right into Saul’s camp and found him asleep, with his spear stuck in the ground beside his head. Abner and the soldiers were lying asleep around him.
  • 1 Samuel 26:12 So David took the spear and jug of water that were near Saul’s head. Then he and Abishai got away without anyone seeing them or even waking up, because the Lord had put Saul’s men into a deep sleep.
  • 1 Kings 3:20 Then she got up in the night and took my son from beside me while I was asleep. She laid her dead child in my arms and took mine to sleep beside her.
  • 1 Kings 18:27 About noontime Elijah began mocking them. “You’ll have to shout louder,” he scoffed, “for surely he is a god! Perhaps he is daydreaming, or is relieving himself. Or maybe he is away on a trip, or is asleep and needs to be wakened!”
  • Psalms 78:65 Then the Lord rose up as though waking from sleep, like a warrior aroused from a drunken stupor.
  • Song of Solomon 5:2 I slept, but my heart was awake, when I heard my lover knocking and calling: “Open to me, my treasure, my darling, my dove, my perfect one. My head is drenched with dew, my hair with the dampness of the night.”
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).