Genesis 2:21
And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;
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Sleep
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1 Thessalonians 5:10
Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
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Genesis
55 verses
Exodus
11 verses
Deuteronomy
33 verses
Judges
33 verses
1 Samuel
22 verses
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11 verses
1 Kings
11 verses
Esther
11 verses
Job
44 verses
Psalms
109 verses
Proverbs
128 verses
Ecclesiastes
32 verses
Song of Solomon
11 verses
Isaiah
22 verses
Jeremiah
53 verses
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11 verses
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55 verses
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11 verses
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22 verses
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22 verses
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22 verses
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33 verses
Acts
43 verses
Romans
11 verses
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22 verses
1 Thessalonians
54 verses
Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?
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שֵׁנָה
shênâh · shay-naw'
23 times translated as this KJV form23 total Strong's occurrences
sleep
Strong's KJV usage: sleep.
Strong's first: Genesis 28:16Strong's last: Zechariah 4:1
Open full H8142 profile →שָׁכַב
shâkab · shaw-kab'
11 times translated as this KJV form212 total Strong's occurrences
to lie down (for rest, sexual connection, decease or any other purpose)
Strong's KJV usage: × at all, cast down, (lover-)lay (self) (down), (make to) lie (down, down to sleep, still with), lodge, ravish, take rest, sleep, stay.
Strong's first: Genesis 28:11Strong's last: Proverbs 24:33
Open full H7901 profile →יָשֵׁן
yâshên · yaw-shane'
10 times translated as this KJV form19 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to be slack or languid, i.e. (by implication) sleep (figuratively, to die); also to grow old, stale or inveterate
Strong's KJV usage: old (store), remain long, (make to) sleep.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Judges 16:19Strong's last: Ezekiel 34:25
Open full H3462 profile →καθεύδω
katheúdō · kath-yoo'-do
8 times translated as this KJV form24 total Strong's occurrences
to lie down to rest, i.e. (by implication) to fall asleep (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--(be a-)sleep.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 26:45Strong's last: 1 Thessalonians 5:10
Open full G2518 profile →ὕπνος
hýpnos · hoop'-nos
6 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences
sleep, i.e. (figuratively) spiritual torpor
Strong's KJV usage: :--sleep.
Strong's first: Matthew 1:24Strong's last: Romans 13:11
Open full G5258 profile →תַּרְדֵּמָה
tardêmâh · tar-day-maw'
6 times translated as this KJV form7 total Strong's occurrences
a lethargy or (by implication) trance
Strong's KJV usage: deep sleep.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 2:21Strong's last: Isaiah 29:10
Open full H8639 profile →κοιμάω
koimáō · koy-mah'-o
5 times translated as this KJV form20 total Strong's occurrences
to put to sleep, i.e. (passively or reflexively) to slumber; figuratively, to decease
Strong's KJV usage: :--(be a-, fall a-, fall on) sleep, be dead.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: John 11:12Strong's last: 1 Thessalonians 4:14
Open full G2837 profile →יָשֵׁן
yâshên · yaw-shane'
3 times translated as this KJV form9 total Strong's occurrences
sleepy
Strong's KJV usage: asleep, (one out of) sleep(-eth, -ing), slept.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Psalms 78:65Strong's last: Daniel 12:2
Open full H3463 profile →רָדַם
râdam · raw-dam'
3 times translated as this KJV form7 total Strong's occurrences
to stun, i.e. stupefy (with sleep or death)
Strong's KJV usage: (be fast a-, be in a deep, cast into a dead, that) sleep(-er, -eth).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Psalms 76:6Strong's last: Daniel 10:9
Open full H7290 profile →ἐξυπνίζω
exypnízō · ex-oop-nid'-zo
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
to waken
Strong's KJV usage: :--awake out of sleep.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: John 11:11Strong's last: John 11:11
Open full G1852 profile →ἔξυπνος
éxypnos · ex'-oop-nos
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
awake
Strong's KJV usage: :--X out of sleep.
Strong's first: Acts 16:27Strong's last: Acts 16:27
Open full G1853 profile →שְׁנָה
shᵉnâh · shen-aw'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
Strong's KJV usage: sleep.
Strong's first: Daniel 6:18Strong's last: Daniel 6:18
Open full H8139 profile →שְׁנָת
shᵉnâth · shen-awth'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
sleep
Strong's KJV usage: sleep.
Strong's first: Psalms 132:4Strong's last: Psalms 132:4
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H3462
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.
H8142
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.
H3462
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.
H8142
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.
H3462
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.
H8142
And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, wherewith his spirit was troubled, and his sleep brake from him.
H8139
Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting: neither were instruments of musick brought before him: and his sleep went from him.
H7290
Now as he was speaking with me, I was in a deep sleep on my face toward the ground: but he touched me, and set me upright.
H7290
Yet heard I the voice of his words: and when I heard the voice of his words, then was I in a deep sleep on my face, and my face toward the ground.
H3463
And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
H8142
And the angel that talked with me came again, and waked me, as a man that is wakened out of his sleep,
G5258
Then Joseph being raised from sleep did as the angel of the Lord had bidden him, and took unto him his wife:
G2518
Then cometh he to his disciples, and saith unto them, Sleep on now, and take your rest: behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.
G2518
And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how.
G2518
And he cometh the third time, and saith unto them, Sleep on now, and take your rest: it is enough, the hour is come; behold, the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.
G5258
But Peter and they that were with him were heavy with sleep: and when they were awake, they saw his glory, and the two men that stood with him.
G2518
And said unto them, Why sleep ye? rise and pray, lest ye enter into temptation.
G1852
These things said he: and after that he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep.
G2837
Then said his disciples, Lord, if he sleep, he shall do well.
G5258
Howbeit Jesus spake of his death: but they thought that he had spoken of taking of rest in sleep.
G2837
For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption:
G1853
And the keeper of the prison awaking out of his sleep, and seeing the prison doors open, he drew out his sword, and would have killed himself, supposing that the prisoners had been fled.
G5258
And there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep: and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and was taken up dead.
G5258
And there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep: and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and was taken up dead.
G5258
And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.
English meaning and historical usage.
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sleep
SLEEP, verb intransitive preterit tense and participle passive slept.
1. To take rest by a suspension of the voluntary exercise of the powers of the body and mind. The proper time to sleep in during the darkness of night.
2. To rest; to be unemployed; to be inactive or motionless; as, the sword sleeps in its sheath.
3. To rest; to lie or be still; not to be noticed or agitated. The question sleeps for the present.
4. To live thoughtlessly. We sleep over our happiness.
5. To be dead; to rest in the grave for a time. I Thess. 4.
6. To be careless, inattentive or unconcerned; not be vigilant.
SLEEP, noun That state of an animal in which the voluntary exertion of his mental and corporeal powers is suspended, and he rests unconscious of what passes around him, and not affected by the ordinary impressions of external objects. sleep is generally attended with a relaxation of the muscles, but the involuntary motions, as respiration and the circulation of the blood, are continued. The mind is often very active in sleep; but its powers not being under the control of reason, its exercises are very irregular. sleep is the natural rest or repose intended by the Creator to restore the powers of the body and mind, when exhausted or fatigued.
SLEEP OF PLANTS, a state of plants at night, when their least droop or are folded.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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