רָדַםrâdam
Niph`al: be in, or fall into, heavy sleep, be or fall fast asleep (Judges 4:21; Daniel 8:8; Jonah 1:5)
Pronunciation: raw-dam' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7290
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 7 times in the Bible.
- Judges 4:21 But when Sisera fell asleep from exhaustion, Jael quietly crept up to him with a hammer and tent peg in her hand. Then she drove the tent peg through his temple and into the ground, and so he died.
- Psalms 76:6 At the blast of your breath, O God of Jacob, their horses and chariots lay still.
- Proverbs 10:5 A wise youth harvests in the summer, but one who sleeps during harvest is a disgrace.
- Daniel 8:18 While he was speaking, I fainted and lay there with my face to the ground. But Gabriel roused me with a touch and helped me to my feet.
- Daniel 10:9 Then I heard the man speak, and when I heard the sound of his voice, I fainted and lay there with my face to the ground.
- Jonah 1:5 Fearing for their lives, the desperate sailors shouted to their gods for help and threw the cargo overboard to lighten the ship. But all this time Jonah was sound asleep down in the hold.
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).