STRONGS NUMBER H3462


Word Summary
yashen: to sleep
Original Word: יָשֵׁן
Transliteration: yashen
Phonetic Spelling: (yaw-shane')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to sleep
Meaning: to be slack, languid, sleep, to grow old, stale, inveterate
Strong's Concordance
to be slack or languid, grow old

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

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H3462. yashen

[יָשֵׁן‎] verb sleep (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic noun sleep; Arabic be sleepy, , sleep Assyrian šittiu, sleep, DlHWB 246, šunatu, šuttu, dream, Idib, Flood: iv. 22 AsrbAnnals,v R. 2, 97) —

Qal Perfect יָשַׁנְתִּיJob 3:13; וְיָָֽשְׁנוּ‎ consecutive Jeremiah 51:39 2t.; Imperfect יִישָׁ֑ןIsaiah 5:27; Psalm 121:4; וַיִישַׁן1 Kings 19:5, etc.; Infinitive construct לִישׁוֺןEcclesiastes 5:11; — sleep, go to sleep, and be asleep, Genesis 2:21 (J), 41:5 (E), Ezekiel 34:25; Job 3:13; Psalm 3:6; Psalm 4:9; Proverbs 4:16; Ecclesiastes 5:11, also 2 Samuel 4:6 ᵐ5‎ We Dr Kit Bu, see חֹמֶשׁ‎; with לֹא‎, of Ass. army Isaiah 5:27 ("" נוּם‎); of Baal 1 Kings 19:5; of אֲדֹנָי תִישַׁן לָמָּה עוּרָה ׳י,‎ 1Ki 44:24; יִישָׁ֑ן לֹא12:14 ("" נוּם‎); with accusative of congnate meaning with verb ׳ישׁ עוֺלָם שְׁנַתJeremiah 51:39, 57 (see שֵׁנָה‎), of death, compare הַמָּוֶת אִישַׁןPsalm 13:4. Niph`al only in derivatives sense of become inactive or stationary; Perfect וְנוֺשַׁנְתֶּם‎ consecutive Deuteronomy 4:25 and ye be grown old בָּאָרֶץ‎, i.e. (see Di Dr) have lost freshness of first impressions; of inanimate things, be old, stale , only Participle נוֺשָׁן יָשָׁןLeviticus 26:10 (H), feminine נוֺשֶׁנֶת צרעת13:11 = old leprosy (P); these possibly denominative from יָשָׁן

Pi`el causat. Imperfect וַתְּיַשְּׁנֵהוּJudges 16:19and she made him sleep.

ישׁן‎ (√ of following; Biblical Hebrew שֵׁנָה ישׁן,‎).