Psalms 121:3
He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber.
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Slumber
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Romans 11:8
(According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day.
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3 occurrences in 3 verses.
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נוּם
nûwm · noom
5 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences
to slumber (from drowsiness)
Strong's KJV usage: sleep, slumber.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Psalms 121:3Strong's last: Nahum 3:18
Open full H5123 profile →תְּנוּמָה
tᵉnûwmâh · ten-oo-maw'
4 times translated as this KJV form5 total Strong's occurrences
drowsiness, i.e. sleep
Strong's KJV usage: slumber(-ing).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Psalms 132:4Strong's last: Proverbs 24:33
Open full H8572 profile →κατάνυξις
katányxis · kat-an'-oox-is
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
a prickling (sensation, as of the limbs asleep), i.e. (by implication, (perhaps by some confusion with G3506 or even with G3571)) stupor (lethargy)
Strong's KJV usage: :--slumber.
Strong's first: Romans 11:8Strong's last: Romans 11:8
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H5123
He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber.
H5123
Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.
H8572
I will not give sleep to mine eyes, or slumber to mine eyelids,
H8572
Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.
H8572
Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
H8572
Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
H5123
None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:
H5123
His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.
H5123
Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria: thy nobles shall dwell in the dust: thy people is scattered upon the mountains, and no man gathereth them.
G2659
(According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day.
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slumber
SLUM'BER, verb intransitive
1. To sleep lightly; to doze. He that keepth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. Psalms 121:4.
2. To sleep. slumber is used as synonymous with sleep, particularly in the poetic and eloquent style.
3. To be in a state of negligence, sloth, supineness or inactivity. Why slumbers Pope?
SLUM'BER, verb transitive
1. To lay to sleep.
2. To stun; to stupefy. [Little used and hardly legitimate.]
SLUM'BER, noun
1. Light sleep; sleep not deep or sound. From carelessness it shall settle into slumber and from slumber it shall settle into a deep and long sleep.
2. Sleep; repose.
Rest to my soul, and slumber to my eyes.
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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