נוּם
num · slumber
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H5123 · appears 6 times in the Bible
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num (נוּם) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “slumber”.
To slumber, to doze off from weariness.
How to say it
num
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
- To be half asleep, eyes closing without fully sleeping.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- slumber ×4
- slumbers ×1
- they slept ×1
Related words
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Psalms 76:5
The strong of heart were plundered; they slept their sleep, and none of the men of valor found their hands.
- Psalms 121:3
May he not let your foot be moved; may he not slumber, the one who keeps you.
- Psalms 121:4
Look, he will not slumber and will not sleep, the one who keeps Israel.
- Isaiah 5:27
None is weary and none stumbles in it; none slumbers or sleeps; the belt of its hips is not loosened, nor is the strap of its sandals broken.
- Isaiah 56:10
His watchmen are blind, all of them; they do not know; all of them are mute dogs, they cannot bark; dreaming, lying down, lovers of slumber.
- Nahum 3:18
Your shepherds slumber, king of Assyria; your nobles rest; your people are scattered on the mountains, and there is no one to assemble them.