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# תַּרְדֵּמָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8639

**deep sleep** — used 7 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

deep sleep [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8639/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תַּרְדֵּמָה: n.f. deep sleep [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8639/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. deep sleep;—abs. ת׳ Gn 2:21 +; cstr. תַּרְדֵּמַת 1 S 26:12;—deep sleep, usually c. נָפַל + עַל pers., and usually by supernat. agency: וַיַּפֵּל י׳ א׳ ת׳ עַל Gn 2:21 (J; 𝔊 ἔκστασις), ת׳ נָֽפְלָה עַל 15:12 (J; 𝔊 id.), Jb 4:13 = 33:15 (𝔊 \[δεινὸς\] φόβος), so תַּרְדֵּמַת י׳ 1 S 26:12 (𝔊 θάμβος), result of slothfulness (על and pers. om.) Pr 19:15; fig. for insensibility of spirit, נָסַךְ עֲלֵיכֶם י׳ רוּחַ ת׳ Is 29:10.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: deep sleep (3); a deep sleep (2); (the) deep sleep (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 19:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.19.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.19.15/#tree)

עַ֭צְלָה תַּפִּ֣יל תַּרְדֵּמָ֑ה וְנֶ֖פֶשׁ רְמִיָּ֣ה תִרְעָֽב׃

*Word for word:* laziness it.makes.fall deep.sleep and a.person of.slackness he.will.be.hungry

*JPS 1917:* Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and the idle soul shall suffer hunger.

[Job 4:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.4.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.4.13/#tree)

בִּ֭שְׂעִפִּים מֵחֶזְיֹנ֣וֹת לָ֑יְלָה בִּנְפֹ֥ל תַּ֝רְדֵּמָ֗ה עַל־אֲנָשִֽׁים׃

*Word for word:* in disquieting.thoughts from visions of.\[the\].night when falls deep.sleep on people

*JPS 1917:* In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men,

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8639.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8639/): 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).