תַּרְדֵּמָה
tardema · deep sleep
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H8639 · appears 7 times in the Bible
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tardema (תַּרְדֵּמָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “deep sleep”.
A very deep sleep, which in the Bible often comes from God.
How to say it
tar·de·ma
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
- A very heavy slumber, sometimes sent by God.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Genesis 2:21
And YHWH Elohim caused a deep sleep to fall on the man, and he slept; and he took one of his sides and closed up the flesh in its place.
- Genesis 15:12
As the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram; and look, a terror, a great darkness, was falling on him.
- 1 Samuel 26:12
David took the spear and the jar of water from Saul’s head, and they went away. No one saw, no one knew, and no one woke up, for all of them were asleep, because a deep sleep from YHWH had fallen upon them.
- Job 4:13
In disquieting thoughts from visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men,
- Job 33:15
in a dream, a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, in slumbers on the bed,
- Proverbs 19:15
Laziness casts into a deep sleep, and a slack soul will go hungry.
- Isaiah 29:10
For YHWH has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep, and he has shut your eyes, the prophets, and your heads, the seers, he has covered.