יָשֵׁן yashen
Hebrew word for “to sleep” · Strong’s H3462 · used 19 times in 19 verses
Meaning
1) to sleep, be asleep;
How it is translated
Glosses given for yashen in context, with how often each is used:
- will sleep 5
- slept 3
- fell asleep 1
- grown old 1
- growing old 1
- will grow old 1
- made sleep 1
- slept ! 1
- may sleep 1
- should sleep 1
- do you sleep 1
- sleep 1
Where it is used
| Book | Uses | Per 1,000 words | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Psalms | 5 | 0.3 | |
| Genesis | 2 | 0.1 | |
| Leviticus | 2 | 0.2 | |
| Jeremiah | 2 | 0.1 | |
| Deuteronomy | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Judges | 1 | 0.1 | |
| 1 Kings | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Job | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Proverbs | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Ecclesiastes | 1 | 0.3 | |
| Isaiah | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Ezekiel | 1 | 0.1 |
Chapters where it is used most
Jeremiah 51 (2), Genesis 2 (1), Genesis 41 (1), Leviticus 13 (1), Leviticus 26 (1), Deuteronomy 4 (1), Judges 16 (1), 1 Kings 19 (1), Job 3 (1), Psalms 3 (1)
Forms
- ויישׁן 3
- וישׁנו 3
- יישׁן 2
- נושׁנת 1
- נושׁן 1
- ונושׁנתם 1
- ותישׁנהו 1
- ישׁנתי 1
- ואישׁנה 1
- ואישׁן 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with yashen more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- קִיץ quts “to awake” 4
- שֵׁנָה shenah “sleep” 4
- שָׁכַב shakhav “to lie down” 4
- נוּם num “to slumber” 2
- שָׁכַר shakhar “be drunk” 2
- בֶּטַח betach “security” 2
- כָּשַׁל kashal “to stumble” 2
- סָגַר sagar “to shut” 2
- אָכַל akhal “to eat” 3
- אֶחָד echad “one” 3
- נוּחַ nuach “to rest” 2
- הִנֵּה hinneh “behold” 3
Key verses
The verses using yashen that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- Genesis 2:21 — 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;
- Deuteronomy 4:25 — 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…
- Job 3:13 — For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
- Psalms 3:5 — I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained me.
- Psalms 4:8 — I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, LORD, only makest me dwell in safety.
- Psalms 13:3 — Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;
- Psalms 44:23 — Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.
- Proverbs 4:16 — For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
- Isaiah 5:27 — 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…
- Jeremiah 51:39 — 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.
- Jeremiah 51:57 — 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,…
- Ezekiel 34:25 — 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…
See all 19 verses in the Word Atlas
Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.