Yashen means “remain long” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G3462 — myrizo (“anoint”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H3462 יָשֵׁן (yashen) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. yashen (yaw-shane') v. 1. (properly) to be slack or languid 2. (by implication) to sleep It has 19 linked Bible usages across 12 books. Visible English usage signals include sleep, old, slept, remained, and sleepest. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
yashen (yaw-shane') v. 1. (properly) to be slack or languid 2. (by implication) to sleep 3. (figuratively) to die 4. (also) to grow old, stale or inveterate [a primitive root] KJV: old (store), remain long, (make to) sleep.
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H3462. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to sleep
Usage: 1) to sleep, be asleep 1a) (Qal) to sleep, go to sleep, be asleep 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to remain a long time, be stored up 1b2) to be festering (of leprosy) 1c) (Piel) to cause to sleep, entice to sleep
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render yashen, 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.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. 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.
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19 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;
And he slept and dreamed the second time: and, behold, seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good.
It is an old leprosy in the skin of his flesh, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean, and shall not shut him up: for he is unclean.
First 19 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H3462.
And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;
And he slept and dreamed the second time: and, behold, seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good.
It is an old leprosy in the skin of his flesh, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean, and shall not shut him up: for he is unclean.
And ye shall eat old store, and bring forth the old because of the new.
When thou shalt beget children, and children's children, and ye shall have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, and shall do evil in the sight of the LORD thy God, to provoke him to anger:
And she made him sleep upon her knees; and she called for a man, and she caused him to shave off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him.
And as he lay and slept under a juniper tree, behold, then an angel touched him, and said unto him, Arise and eat.
For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained me.
I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, LORD, only makest me dwell in safety.
Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;
Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.
Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.
For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.
None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:
In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the LORD.
And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.
And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land: and they shall dwell safely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H3462, grouped by book.
Yashen (Strong's H3462) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "remain long". yashen (yaw-shane') v. 1. (properly) to be slack or languid 2. (by implication) to sleep
This page currently indexes 19 linked usages for Strong's H3462 across 12 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H3462 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as sleep, old, slept, remained, and sleepest. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.