Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
sleep
Usage: sleep Aramaic equivalent: she.nah (שְׁנָה "sleep" H8139)
Shenah means “sleep” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H8142 שֵׁנָה שֵׁנָא (shehah) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. shehah (shay-naw') (or shena (Psa. 127) n-f. 1. sleep [from H3462] It has 23 linked Bible usages across 10 books. Visible English usage signals include sleep. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
shehah (shay-naw') (or shena (Psa. 127) n-f. 1. sleep [from H3462] KJV: sleep. Root(s): H3462
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sleep
Usage: sleep Aramaic equivalent: she.nah (שְׁנָה "sleep" H8139)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render shehah, 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.
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.
23 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the LORD is in this place; and I knew it not.
Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.
And she fastened it with the pin, and said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awaked out of his sleep, and went away with the pin of the beam, and with the web.
First 23 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H8142.
And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the LORD is in this place; and I knew it not.
Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.
And she fastened it with the pin, and said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awaked out of his sleep, and went away with the pin of the beam, and with the web.
And she said, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself. And he wist not that the LORD was departed from him.
On that night could not the king sleep, and he commanded to bring the book of records of the chronicles; and they were read before the king.
So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.
The stouthearted are spoiled, they have slept their sleep: and none of the men of might have found their hands.
Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.
When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.
For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.
How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?
Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
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.
When I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes:)
Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me.
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 in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, wherewith his spirit was troubled, and his sleep brake from him.
And the angel that talked with me came again, and waked me, as a man that is wakened out of his sleep.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H8142, grouped by book.
Shenah (Strong's H8142) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "sleep". shehah (shay-naw') (or shena (Psa. 127) n-f. 1. sleep [from H3462]
This page currently indexes 23 linked usages for Strong's H8142 across 10 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H8142 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
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.