שֵׁנָה shenah
Hebrew word for “sleep” · Strong’s H8142 · used 23 times in 23 verses
Meaning
sleep; Aramaic equivalent: she.nah (שְׁנָה "sleep" H8139)
How it is translated
Glosses given for shenah in context, with how often each is used:
- sleep 21
- sleeps 2
Where it is used
| Book | Uses | Per 1,000 words | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Proverbs | 7 | 1.0 | |
| Psalms | 3 | 0.2 | |
| Jeremiah | 3 | 0.1 | |
| Genesis | 2 | 0.1 | |
| Judges | 2 | 0.2 | |
| Ecclesiastes | 2 | 0.7 | |
| Esther | 1 | 0.3 | |
| Job | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Daniel | 1 | 0.2 | |
| Zechariah | 1 | 0.3 |
Chapters where it is used most
Proverbs 6 (3), Judges 16 (2), Jeremiah 51 (2), Genesis 28 (1), Genesis 31 (1), Esther 6 (1), Job 14 (1), Psalms 76 (1), Psalms 90 (1), Psalms 127 (1)
Forms
- משׁנתו 4
- שׁנת 4
- שׁנה 4
- שׁנתם 2
- שׁנות 2
- שׁנתי 1
- משׁנתם 1
- שׁנא 1
- שׁנתך 1
- משׁנתך 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with shenah more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- יָשֵׁן yashen “to sleep” 4
- קִיץ quts “to awake” 4
- תְּנוּמָה tenumah “slumber” 3
- שָׁכַב shakhav “to lie down” 5
- יָקַץ yaqats “to awake” 3
- חִבֻּק chibbuq “folding” 2
- מְעַט meat “little” 3
- עָרַב arev “to please” 2
- שָׁכַר shakhar “be drunk” 2
- לַיְלָה laylah “night” 3
- נָדַד nadad “to wander” 2
- עַיִן ayin “eye” 4
Key verses
The verses using shenah that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- Judges 16:20 — 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…
- Esther 6:1 — 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.
- Job 14:12 — So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.
- Psalms 76:5 — The stouthearted are spoiled, they have slept their sleep: and none of the men of might have found their hands.
- Psalms 90:5 — Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
- Psalms 127:2 — 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.
- Proverbs 4:16 — For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
- Proverbs 6:4 — Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.
- Proverbs 6:9 — How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?
- 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,…
- Daniel 2:1 — And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, wherewith his spirit was troubled, and his sleep brake from him.
See all 23 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.