H3462 יָשֵׁן

Strong's Hebrew Concordance · 19 KJV occurrences

יָשֵׁן

yâshên · yaw-shane'

Definition

properly, to be slack or languid, i.e. (by implication) sleep (figuratively, to die); also to grow old, stale or inveterate

KJV Renderings

old (store), remain long, (make to) sleep.

Derivation / Etymology

a primitive root;

Sample KJV Verses (8 of 19)

Genesis 2:21And 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;
Leviticus 13:11It 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.
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 the likeness of any thing, and shall do evil in the sight of the LORD thy God, to provoke him to anger:
Job 3:13For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
Psalms 4:8I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, LORD, only makest me dwell in safety.
Psalms 44:23Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.
Ecclesiastes 5:12The 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.
Jeremiah 51:39In 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.