STRONGS NUMBER H5123


Word Summary
num: to be drowsy, slumber
Original Word: נוּם
Transliteration: num
Phonetic Spelling: (noom)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to be drowsy, slumber
Meaning: to be drowsy, slumber
Strong's Concordance
sleep, slumber

A primitive root; to slumber (from drowsiness) -- sleep, slumber.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H5123. num

נוּםverb be drowsy, slumber (Late Hebrew נִמְנֵם נוּם,id.; Aramaic נוּם‎, ; Arabic () id.; Ethiopic ); —

Qal Perfect3plural נָמ֫וּNahum 3:18; Psalm 76:6 (Ges§ 72 l); Imperfect יָנוּם121:3 2t.; 3 feminine singular וַתָּ֫נָם2 Samuel 4:6 (so read for HCT וַיַּכֻּהו‎, with other radical changes, ᵐ5‎ Th We Dr Kit Bu HPS); Infinitive construct לָנוּםIsaiah 56:10. — be drowsy, slumber, literal וַתִּישָׁ֑ן וַתָּנָם2 Samuel 4:6 (emendation, see above) and she grew drowsy and slept; figurative of inactivity, indolence, Isaiah 5:27 ("" ישׁן‎), Psalm 121:3; 121:4 (of ׳י‎; "" id.); Nahum 3:18 ("" שָׁכֵן‎); לָנ ׳אֹהֲבֵיIsaiah 56:10 ("" שָׁכַב‎); followed by accusative of congnate meaning with verb שֵׁנָהPsalm 76:6 (of death, "" נִרְדַּם‎).