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I will notאִםgiveאֶתֵּןsleepשְׁנַתto my eyes,לְעֵינָיto my eyelidsלְעַפְעַפַּיdrowsiness,תְּנוּמָה
Psalms 132:4
Study it in the app“I will not give sleep to my eyes, to my eyelids drowsiness,”
With the Hebrew beneath
Psalms 132:4, word by word
- giveאֶתֵּןeten
give
To hand something over to someone: a gift, a payment, a charge or a land.
Where else “eten” appears- sleepשְׁנַתshenat
sleep
Sleep, the act of sleeping.
Where else “shenat” appears- to my eyesעֵינָena
sight
"In the eyes of" someone: in their view.
Where else “ena” appears- to my eyelidsעַפְעַפַּafapa
eyelid
An eyelid; also an eyelash. In poetry, "the eyelids of the dawn" are the first rays of morning.
Where else “afapa” appears- drowsinessתְּנוּמָהtenuma
slumber
Drowsiness, light sleep.
Where else “tenuma” appears
The context
3“I will not enter into the tent of my house; I will not go up onto the bed of my couch;
4 · This verse (above)
5until I find a place for YHWH, dwellings for the Mighty One of Jacob.”