Strong's Definition
a primitive root; properly, to be slack or languid, i.e. (by implication) sleep (figuratively, to die); also to grow old, stale or inveterate: -old (store), remain long, (make to) sleep.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
יָשֵׁן (ya.shen) — to sleep. 1) to sleep, be asleep 1a) (Qal) to sleep, go to sleep, be asleep 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to remain a long time, be stored up 1b2) to be festering (of leprosy) 1c) (Piel) to cause to sleep, entice to sleep
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · יָשָׁן · יָשֵׁן · שֵׁנָא · שֵׁנָה
Asleep | verb qal | ≈ נוח · נום · תַּרְדֵּמָה | ≠ עור · קיץ
to sleep, to fall asleep = state in which humans are asleep; ≈ sometimes associated with security, sometimes with death, sometimes with being inactive
GEN 2:21 · GEN 41:5 · 1KI 19:5 · JOB 3:13 · PSA 3:6 · PSA 4:9 · PSA 13:4 · PSA 44:24 · PSA 121:4 · PRO 4:16 · ECC 5:11 · ISA 5:27 · JER 51:39 · JER 51:57 · EZK 34:25
Asleep | verb pi
to put to sleep, to lull to sleep = causative action by which humans cause other humans to fall asleep
Space | verb nif | ≈ יָשָׁן
to be for a long time = state in which humans and objects remain in a certain location for an extended period of time
Endure | verb nif ptc.act
dormant, chronic = state in which a condition remains unchanged for an extended period of time
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[יָשֵׁן] vb. sleep Qal sleep, go to sleep, and be sleep
Niph. only in deriv. sense of become inactive or stationary
Pi. causat. she made him sleep
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