H3463 - יָשֵׁן (yâshên)

H3463 יָשֵׁן (yâshên) yaw-shane'

Hebrew

Adjective (Hebrew)

Quick Definition

sleeping

Strong's Definition

sleepy

Derivation: from H3462 (יָשֵׁן);

KJV Usage: asleep, (one out of) sleep(-eth, -ing), slept.

TWOT Reference: 928a

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) sleeping

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G5258

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

sleeping

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

יָשֵׁן yâshên BDB Definition: 1) sleeping Part of Speech: adjective A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from H3462 Same Word by TWOT Number: 928a Total KJV Occurrences: 10

Bible Occurrences (7)

26:7 26:12

3:20 18:27

78:65

12:2

7:6

1 Samuel 26:7

That night David and Abishai came to the troops, and Saul was lying there asleep in the inner circle of the camp, with his spear stuck in the ground by his head. And Abner and the troops were lying around him.

1 Samuel 26:12

So David took the spear and water... jug by Saul’s head, and they departed. No one saw them [or] knew about it, nor did anyone wake up; they all remained asleep, because a deep sleep from the LORD had fallen on them.

1 Kings 3:20

So she got up in the middle of the night and took my son from my side while I was asleep. She laid him in her bosom and put her dead son at my bosom.

1 Kings 18:27

At noon Elijah began to taunt them, saying, Shout... louder, for he is... a god! Perhaps he is deep in thought..., or occupied, or on a journey. Perhaps he is sleeping and must be awakened!

Daniel 12:2

And many who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, but others to shame [and] everlasting contempt.

Hosea 7:6

For they prepare their heart like an oven while they lie in wait; all night their anger smolders; in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.