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# יָשֵׁן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3463

**sleeping** — used 9 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

sleeping [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3463/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יָשֵׁן²: adj. sleeping [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3463/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. sleeping;—ms. יָשֵׁן 1 S 26:7 + 3 times, fs. יְשֵׁנָה 1 K 3:20; Ct 5:2; pl. יְשֵׁנִים 1 S 26:12 Ct 7:10; cstr. יְשֵׁנֵי Dn 12:2;—asleep, sleeping 1 S 26:7, 12 1 K 3:20 Ct 5:2; 7:10; so, fig., Ho 7:6, expl. as = יֶעְשַׁן smoketh, cf. Dt 29:19, by RSJPhil. xvi. 1888, 72; Proph. iv, n. 19 Che with אַפְּהֶם (Ges§ 91. 1. R. 1 a) for אֹפֵהֶם; but their anger sleepeth; of Baal 1 K 18:27; in sim. of י׳ ψ 78:65; of dead, as sleeping in dust, Dn 12:2.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 9 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (10 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (7 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[is\] sleeping (2); \[was\] sleeping (2); \[were\] sleeping (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 78:65](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.78.65/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.78.65/#tree)

וַיִּקַ֖ץ כְּיָשֵׁ֥ן ׀ אֲדֹנָ֑י כְּ֝גִבּ֗וֹר מִתְרוֹנֵ֥ן מִיָּֽיִן׃

*Word for word:* and he.awoke like a.sleeper Lord \[the\] like a.warrior overcome from wine

*JPS 1917:* Then the Lord awaked as one asleep, like a mighty man recovering from wine.

[Song of Songs 7:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.7.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.7.10/#tree)

וְחִכֵּ֕ךְ כְּיֵ֥ין הַטּ֛וֹב הוֹלֵ֥ךְ לְדוֹדִ֖י לְמֵישָׁרִ֑ים דּוֹבֵ֖ב שִׂפְתֵ֥י יְשֵׁנִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and mouth your \[be\].like.(the) wine of.(the) good \[which\].goes for lover my to smoothness(es) \[which\].flows.gently \[the\].lips of.sleepers

*JPS 1917:* And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine, that glideth down smoothly for my beloved, moving gently the lips of those that are asleep.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3463.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3463/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).