שֵׁנָהshênâh
sleep (Psalms 90:5; Psalms 127:2; Psalms 132:4; Jeremiah 51:39; Genesis 31:40)
Pronunciation: shay-naw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H8142
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 23 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 28:16 Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, “Surely the Lord is in this place, and I wasn’t even aware of it!”
- Genesis 31:40 “I worked for you through the scorching heat of the day and through cold and sleepless nights.
- Judges 16:14 Then she tightened it with the loom shuttle. Again she cried out, “Samson! The Philistines have come to capture you!” But Samson woke up, pulled back the loom shuttle, and yanked his hair away from the loom and the fabric.
- Judges 16:20 Then she cried out, “Samson! The Philistines have come to capture you!” When he woke up, he thought, “I will do as before and shake myself free.” But he didn’t realize the Lord had left him.
- Esther 6:1 That night the king had trouble sleeping, so he ordered an attendant to bring the book of the history of his reign so it could be read to him.
- Job 14:12 people are laid to rest and do not rise again. Until the heavens are no more, they will not wake up nor be roused from their sleep.
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).