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# נוּם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5123

**be drowsy** — used 6 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

be drowsy [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5123/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נוּם: vb. be drowsy, slumber [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5123/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. be drowsy, slumber (NH נוּם, נִמְנֵם id.; Aramaic נוּם, ܢܳܡ; Arabic ((نوم) نَامَ) id.; Ethiopic ኖመ );— Pf. 3 pl. נָמ֫וּ Na 3:18 ψ 76:6 (Ges§ 72 l); Impf. יָנוּם ψ 121:3 + 2 times; 3 fs. וַתָּ֫נָם 2 S 4:6 (so read for ℌ וַיַּכֻּהו, with other radical changes, 𝔊 Th We Dr Kit Bu HPS); Inf. cstr. לָנוּם Is 56:10.—be drowsy, slumber, lit. וַתָּנָם וַתִּישָׁ֑ן 2 S 4:6 (emend., v. supr.) and she grew drowsy and slept; fig. of inactivity, indolence, Is 5:27 (‖ ישׁן), ψ 121:3, 4 (of י׳; ‖ id.); Na 3:18 (‖ שָׁכֵן); אֹהֲבֵי לָנ׳ Is 56:10 (‖ שָׁכַב); sq. acc. cogn. שֵׁנָה ψ 76:6 (of death, ‖ נִרְדַּם).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: anyone will slumber (1); he will slumber (1); may he slumber (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 121:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.121.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.121.4/#tree)

הִנֵּ֣ה לֹֽא־יָ֭נוּם וְלֹ֣א יִישָׁ֑ן שׁ֝וֹמֵ֗ר יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

*Word for word:* there! not he.will.slumber and not he.will.sleep the.protector of.Israel

*JPS 1917:* Behold, He that keepeth Israel doth neither slumber nor sleep.

[Psalms 121:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.121.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.121.3/#tree)

אַל־יִתֵּ֣ן לַמּ֣וֹט רַגְלֶ֑ךָ אַל־יָ֝נ֗וּם שֹֽׁמְרֶֽךָ׃

*Word for word:* not may.he.permit to (the) slip foot your not may.he.slumber protector your

*JPS 1917:* He will not suffer thy foot to be moved; He that keepeth thee will not slumber.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5123.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5123/): 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).