H8142 - שֵׁנָה (shênâh)

H8142 שֵׁנָה (shênâh) shay-naw'

Hebrew

Noun (Feminine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

sleep

Strong's Definition

sleep

Derivation: or שֵׁנָא; (Psalm 127:2), from H3462 (יָשֵׁן);

KJV Usage: sleep.

TWOT Reference: 928c

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) sleep

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

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

G3573 G5258 G5258

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

sleep Aramaic equivalent: she.nah (שְׁנָה "sleep" H8139)

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

שֵׁנָא / שֵׁנָה shênâh / shênâ BDB Definition: 1) sleep Part of Speech: noun feminine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from H3462 Same Word by TWOT Number: 928c Total KJV Occurrences: 24

Bible Occurrences (23)

28:16 31:40

16:14 16:20

6:1

14:12

76:5 90:5 127:2

3:24 4:16 6:4 6:9 6:10 20:13 24:33

5:12 8:16

31:26 51:39 51:57

2:1

4:1

Genesis 28:16

When Jacob woke up..., he said, Surely the LORD is in this place, and I was unaware of it.

Genesis 31:40

As it was, the heat consumed me by day and the frost by night, and sleep fled from my eyes.

Judges 16:14

[So while he slept, Delilah took the seven braids of his hair and wove them into the web]. with a pin and called to him, Samson, the Philistines [are] here! But he awoke from his sleep and pulled out the pin with the loom and the web.

Judges 16:20

Then she called out, Samson, the Philistines [are] here! When [Samson] awoke from his sleep, he thought, I will escape as I did before... and shake myself free. But he did not know that the LORD had departed from him.

Esther 6:1

That night sleep escaped the king; so he ordered the Book of Records, the Chronicles..., to be brought in and read to him.

Job 14:12

so a man lies down and does not rise. Until the heavens are no more, he will not be awakened [or] roused from sleep.

Proverbs 3:24

When you lie down, you will not be afraid; when you rest, your sleep will be sweet.

Proverbs 4:16

For they cannot sleep unless... they do evil; they are deprived of slumber until... they make someone fall.