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Strong's G5258 ὕπνος (hypnos)

Hypnos means “sleep” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H5258 — nacak (“pour out”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G5258
Language Greek
Linked Usages 60
Books 26

Strong's G5258 Quick Answer

Strong's G5258 ὕπνος (hupnos) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. hupnos (hoop'-nos) n. 1. sleep 2. (figuratively) spiritual torpor It has 60 linked Bible usages across 26 books. Visible English usage signals include sleep. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.

Meaning
hupnos (hoop'-nos) n. 1. sleep 2. (figuratively) spiritual torpor
Usage
60 linked usages
Books
26 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch
Usage Words
sleep

Meaning and Definition

hupnos (hoop'-nos) n. 1. sleep 2. (figuratively) spiritual torpor [from an obsolete primary (perhaps akin to G5259 through the idea of subsilience)] KJV: sleep See also: G5259

Original Word
ὕπνος
Transliteration
hupnos
Morphology
noun

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G5258. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

sleep

Usage: ὕπνος, -ου, ὁ [in LXX for שֵׁנָה, חֲלוֹם, etc. ;] sleep: Mat.1:24, Luk.9:32, Jhn.11:13, Act.20:9; metaphorically, Rom.13:11.† (AS)

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How Strong's G5258 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render hupnos, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

sleep Matthew 1:24

How Strong's G5258 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, New Testament, and 1 Enoch. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 37 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.
  • 1 Enoch rows are separated from the other corpora rather than being hidden inside a generic apocrypha bucket.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G5258 (ὕπνος) appears 55 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G5258 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G5258 in the New Testament

5 indexed usages in New Testament.

Matthew 1:24 KJV

Then Joseph being raised from sleep did as the angel of the Lord had bidden him, and took unto him his wife:

Luke 9:32 KJV

But Peter and they that were with him were heavy with sleep: and when they were awake, they saw his glory, and the two men that stood with him.

John 11:13 KJV

Howbeit Jesus spake of his death: but they thought that he had spoken of taking of rest in sleep.

Strong's G5258 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

37 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Genesis 20:3 Septuagint / Brenton

And God came to Abimelech by night in sleep, and said, Behold, thou diest for the woman, whom thou hast taken, whereas she has lived with a husband.

Genesis 20:6 Septuagint / Brenton

And God said to him in sleep, Yea, I knew that thou didst this with a pure heart, and I spared thee, so that thou shouldest not sin against me, therefore I suffered thee not to touch her.

Genesis 28:16 Septuagint / Brenton

And Jacob awoke out of his sleep, and said, The Lord is in this place, and I knew it not.

Strong's G5258 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

15 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Tobit 10:7 Septuagint / Brenton

But she said, Hold thy peace, and deceive me not; my son is dead. And she went out every day into the way which they went, and did eat no meat in the daytime, and ceased not whole nights to bewail her son Tobias, until the fourteen days of the wedding were expired, which Raguel had sworn that he should spend there. Then Tobias said to Raguel,

1 Maccabees 6:10 Septuagint / Brenton

Wherefore he called for all his friends, and said unto them, The sleep is gone from mine eyes, and my heart faileth for very care.

3 Maccabees 5:11 Septuagint / Brenton

He, however, who has sent his good creature sleep from all time, by night or by day thus gratifying whom he wills, diffused a portion thereof now upon the king.

Strong's G5258 in 1 Enoch

3 indexed usages in 1 Enoch.

1 Enoch 13:10 Septuagint / Brenton

'Abelsjail, which is between Lebanon and Seneser, with their faces covered. And I recounted before them all the visions which I had seen in sleep, and I began to speak the words of righteousness, and to reprimand the heavenly Watchers.

1 Enoch 14:2 Septuagint / Brenton

with the command of the Holy Great One in that vision. I saw in my sleep what I will now say with a tongue of flesh and with the breath of my mouth: which the Great One has given to men to

1 Enoch 100:5 Septuagint / Brenton

And over all the righteous and holy He will appoint guardians from amongst the holy angels To guard them as the apple of an eye, Until He makes an end of all wickedness and all sin, And though the righteous sleep a long sleep, they have nought to fear.

Usage Excerpts

First 60 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G5258.

Genesis 20:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And God came to Abimelech by night in sleep, and said, Behold, thou diest for the woman, whom thou hast taken, whereas she has lived with a husband.
Genesis 20:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And God said to him in sleep, Yea, I knew that thou didst this with a pure heart, and I spared thee, so that thou shouldest not sin against me, therefore I suffered thee not to touch her.
Genesis 28:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Jacob awoke out of his sleep, and said, The Lord is in this place, and I knew it not.
Genesis 31:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it came to pass when the cattle conceived and were with young, that I beheld with mine eyes in sleep, and behold the he-goats and the rams leaping on the sheep and the she-goats, speckled and variegated and spotted with ash-colored spots.
Genesis 31:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the angel of God said to me in a dream, Jacob; and I said, What is it?
Genesis 31:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And God came to Laban the Syrian in sleep by night, and said to him, Take heed to thyself that thou speak not at any time to Jacob evil things.
Genesis 31:40 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I was parched with heat by day, and chilled with frost by night, and my sleep departed from my eyes.
Genesis 40:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the chief cupbearer related his dream to Joseph, and said, In my dream a vine was before me.
Genesis 41:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, saying, In my dream methought I stood by the bank of the river;
Genesis 41:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and saw again in my sleep, and as it were seven ears came up on one stem, full and good.
Numbers 12:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he said to them, Hear my words: If there should be of you a prophet to the Lord, I will be made known to him in a vision, and in sleep will I speak to him.
Numbers 24:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
He says who hears the oracle of the Mighty One, Who saw a vision of God in sleep; His eyes were opened:
Numbers 24:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Hearing the oracles of God, Receiving knowledge from the Most High, And having seen a vision of God in sleep; His eyes were opened.
Judges 16:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it came to pass when he was asleep, that Delilah took the seven locks of his head, and wove them with the web, and fastened them with the pin into the wall, and she said, The Philistines are upon thee, Samson: and he awoke out of his sleep, and carried away the pin of the web out of the wall.
Judges 16:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Delilah said, The Philistines are upon thee, Samson: and he awoke out of his sleep and said, I will go out as at former times, and shake myself; and he knew not that the Lord was departed from him.
1 Kingdoms 26:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
So David and Abishai go in among the people by night: and behold, Saul was fast asleep in the chariot, and his spear was stuck in the ground near his head, and Abner and his people slept round about him.
3 Kingdoms 3:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night, and the Lord said to Solomon, Ask some petition for thyself.
Esther 6:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But the Lord removed sleep from the king that night: and he told his servant to bring in the books, the registers of daily events, to read to him.
Job 14:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And man that has lain down in death shall certainly not rise again Till the heaven be dissolved, And they shall not awake from their sleep.
Psalms 75:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
All the simple ones in heart were troubled; All the men of wealth have slept their sleep, And have found nothing in their hands.
Psalms 77:65 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
So the Lord awoke as one out of sleep, And as a mighty man who has been heated with wine.
Psalms 126:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
It is vain for you to rise early: Ye rise up after resting, Ye that eat the bread of grief; While he gives sleep to his beloved.
Psalms 131:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I will not give sleep to mine eyes, Nor slumber to mine eyelids, Nor rest to my temples,
Proverbs 4:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For they cannot sleep, unless they have done evil: Their sleep is taken away, and they rest not.
Proverbs 6:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Give not sleep to thine eyes, Nor slumber with thine eyelids;
Proverbs 6:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And when wilt thou awake out of sleep?
Proverbs 6:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
time, And thou foldest thine arms over thy breast a little.
Ecclesiastes 5:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The sleep of a servant is sweet, Whether he eat little or much: But to one who is satiated with wealth, There is none that suffers him to sleep.
Ecclesiastes 8:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Whereupon I set my heart to know wisdom, And to perceive the trouble That was wrought upon the earth: For there is that neither by day nor night Sees sleep with his eyes.
Isaiah 29:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the wealth of all the nations together, as many as have fought against Ariel, and all they that war against Jerusalem, and all who are gathered against her, and they that distress her, shall be as one that dreams in sleep by night.
Isaiah 29:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And as men drink and eat in sleep, and when they have arisen, the dream is vain: and as a thirsty man dreams as if he drank, and having arisen is still thirsty, and his soul has desired in vain: so shall be the wealth of all the nations, as many as have fought against the Mount Zion.
Jeremiah 28:39 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
In their heat I will give them a draft, and make them drunk, that they may be stupified, and sleep an everlasting sleep, and not awake, saith the Lord.
Jeremiah 38:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Therefore I awoke, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet to me.
Daniel 2:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
In the second year of his reign Nebuchadnezzar dreamed a dream, and his spirit was amazed, and his sleep departed from him.
Daniel 6:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the king departed to his house, and lay down fasting, and they brought him no food; and his sleep departed from him. But God shut the mouths of the lions, and they did not molest Daniel.
Hosea 7:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Wherefore their hearts are inflamed as an oven, while they rage all the night: Ephraim is satisfied with sleep; the morning is come; he is burned up as a flame of fire.
Zechariah 4:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the angel that talked with me returned, and awakened me, as when a man is awakened out of his sleep.
Matthew 1:24 New Testament, KJV
Then Joseph being raised from sleep did as the angel of the Lord had bidden him, and took unto him his wife:
Luke 9:32 New Testament, KJV
But Peter and they that were with him were heavy with sleep: and when they were awake, they saw his glory, and the two men that stood with him.
John 11:13 New Testament, KJV
Howbeit Jesus spake of his death: but they thought that he had spoken of taking of rest in sleep.
Acts 20:9 New Testament, KJV
And there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep: and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and was taken up dead.
Romans 13:11 New Testament, KJV
And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.
Tobit 10:7 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
But she said, Hold thy peace, and deceive me not; my son is dead. And she went out every day into the way which they went, and did eat no meat in the daytime, and ceased not whole nights to bewail her son Tobias, until the fourteen days of the wedding were expired, which Raguel had sworn that he should spend there. Then Tobias said to Raguel,
1 Maccabees 6:10 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Wherefore he called for all his friends, and said unto them, The sleep is gone from mine eyes, and my heart faileth for very care.
3 Maccabees 5:11 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
He, however, who has sent his good creature sleep from all time, by night or by day thus gratifying whom he wills, diffused a portion thereof now upon the king.
3 Maccabees 5:20 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
The king, then, with a barbarity exceeding that of Phalaris, said, That they might thank his sleep of that day. Lose no time, and get ready the elephants against tomorrow, as you did before, for the destruction of these accursed Jews.
3 Maccabees 5:22 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Nor did they employ the night in sleep, so much as in contriving cruel mockeries for those deemed miserable.
Wisdom of Solomon 4:6 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
For children begotten of unlawful beds Are witnesses of wickedness against their parents in their trial.
Wisdom of Solomon 7:2 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And in my mother’s womb was fashioned to be flesh In the time of ten months, being compacted in blood, Of the seed of man, and the pleasure that came with sleep.
Wisdom of Solomon 17:13 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And the expectation from within, being less, Counteth the ignorance more than the cause which bringeth the torment.
Wisdom of Sirach 22:9 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Whoso teacheth a fool is as one that glueth a potsherd together, And as he that waketh one from a sound sleep.
Wisdom of Sirach 31:1 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
The hopes of a man void of understanding are vain and false: And dreams lift up fools.
Wisdom of Sirach 31:2 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Whoso regardeth dreams Is like him that catcheth at a shadow, And followeth after the wind.
Wisdom of Sirach 31:20 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Whoso bringeth an offering of the goods of the poor Doeth as one that killeth the son before his father’s eyes.
Wisdom of Sirach 40:5 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Wrath, and envy, trouble, and unquietness, fear of death, and anger, and strife, And in the time of rest upon his bed his night sleep, do change his knowledge.
Wisdom of Sirach 40:6 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Little or nothing is his rest, And afterward he is in his sleep as in a day of keeping watch, Troubled in the vision of his heart, As if he were escaped out of a battle.
Wisdom of Sirach 42:9 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
A daughter is a wakeful care to a father; And the care for her taketh away sleep: When she is young, lest she pass away the flower of her age; And being married, lest she should be hated:
1 Enoch 13:10 1 Enoch, Septuagint / Brenton
'Abelsjail, which is between Lebanon and Seneser, with their faces covered. And I recounted before them all the visions which I had seen in sleep, and I began to speak the words of righteousness, and to reprimand the heavenly Watchers.
1 Enoch 14:2 1 Enoch, Septuagint / Brenton
with the command of the Holy Great One in that vision. I saw in my sleep what I will now say with a tongue of flesh and with the breath of my mouth: which the Great One has given to men to
1 Enoch 100:5 1 Enoch, Septuagint / Brenton
And over all the righteous and holy He will appoint guardians from amongst the holy angels To guard them as the apple of an eye, Until He makes an end of all wickedness and all sin, And though the righteous sleep a long sleep, they have nought to fear.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G5258, grouped by book.

Genesis 10 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Numbers 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Judges 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
1 Kingdoms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
3 Kingdoms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Esther 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Job 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Proverbs 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ecclesiastes 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Isaiah 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jeremiah 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Daniel 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Hosea 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Zechariah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Matthew 1 usage, New Testament
Luke 1 usage, New Testament
John 1 usage, New Testament
Acts 1 usage, New Testament
Romans 1 usage, New Testament
Tobit 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
1 Maccabees 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
3 Maccabees 3 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Solomon 3 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Sirach 7 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
1 Enoch 3 usages, 1 Enoch

Strong's G5258 FAQ

What does hypnos (ὕπνος) mean?

Hypnos (Strong's G5258) is a Greek word most simply glossed "sleep". hupnos (hoop'-nos) n. 1. sleep 2. (figuratively) spiritual torpor

How many times is hypnos (ὕπνος) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 60 linked usages for Strong's G5258 across 26 books.

Where can I study hypnos (ὕπνος) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G5258 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.

What English words translate hypnos (ὕπνος)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as sleep. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G5258 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 37 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, 15 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 3 in 1 Enoch for Strong's G5258, with linked reader references where each row is available.