shena · sleep

What it means

shena (שֵׁנָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “sleep”.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The state of rest in which one is unconscious, normally at night.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×2
• Judges×2
• Esther×1
• Job×1
• Psalms×3
• Proverbs×7
• Ecclesiastes×2
• Jeremiah×3
• Daniel×1
• Zechariah×1

• Genesis 28:16

  Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, “Surely YHWH is in this place, and I did not know it.”

• Genesis 31:40

  This is how I was: by day the heat consumed me, and the frost by night, and my sleep fled from my eyes.

• Judges 16:14

  And she fastened it with the pin and said to him, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” And he awoke from his sleep and pulled out the pin of the loom and the warp.

• Judges 16:20

  And she said, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” And he awoke from his sleep and said, “I will go out as at other times and shake myself free.” But he did not know that YHWH had left him.

• Esther 6:1

  That night the king’s sleep fled, and he said to bring the book of the memorials, the chronicles, and they were read before the king.

• Job 14:12

  so a man lies down and does not rise; until the heavens are no more, they will not awake, nor be roused from their sleep.

• Psalms 76:5

  The strong of heart were plundered; they slept their sleep, and none of the men of valor found their hands.

• Psalms 90:5

  You sweep them away; they are a sleep; in the morning they are like grass that is renewed;

• Psalms 127:2

  It is in vain for you to rise early to get up, to be late to sit down, to eat the bread of anxious toils; so he gives to his beloved sleep.

• Proverbs 3:24

  If you lie down, you will not be in dread; and you will lie down, and your sleep will be sweet.

• Proverbs 4:16

  For they do not sleep unless they have done evil, and their sleep is robbed unless they make someone stumble.

• Proverbs 6:4

  Do not give sleep to your eyes, or slumber to your eyelids.

• Proverbs 6:9

  How long, sluggard, will you lie there? When will you rise from your sleep?

• Proverbs 6:10

  A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to lie down,

• Proverbs 20:13

  Do not love sleep, lest you become poor; open your eyes, and be satisfied with bread.

• Proverbs 24:33

  A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to lie down,

• Ecclesiastes 5:12

  Sweet is the sleep of the one who works, whether little or much he eats; but the fullness of the rich does not let him sleep.

• Ecclesiastes 8:16

  When I gave my heart to know wisdom and to see the occupation that is done on the earth — for neither by day nor by night does one see sleep with his eyes—

• Jeremiah 31:26

  At this I awoke and looked, and my sleep was sweet to me.

• Jeremiah 51:39

  In their heat I will set out their feasts and make them drunk, so that they may exult, and sleep an eternal sleep and not wake up, declares YHWH.

• Jeremiah 51:57

  And I will make drunk her princes and her wise men, her governors and her prefects and her mighty men, and they will sleep an eternal sleep and not wake up, declares the King, YHWH Tsevaot is his name.

• Daniel 2:1

  And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, and his spirit was troubled, and his sleep left him.

• Zechariah 4:1

  And the angel who talked with me returned and woke me, like a man who is awakened from his sleep.