רָדַם

radam · sleep deeply

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H7290 · appears 7 times in the Bible

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What it means

radam (רָדַם) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “sleep deeply”.

Be sunk in a heavy sleep.

How to say it

ra·dam

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. To slumber heavily.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

  • fell into a deep sleep ×2
  • fell into deep sleep ×1
  • he who sleeps ×1
  • sleeper ×1
  • was fast asleep ×1
  • was sound asleep ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

  • Judges 4:21

    But Jael the wife of Heber took the peg of the tent and put the hammer in her hand, and she came to him quietly and drove the peg into his temple, and it went down into the ground; he was fast asleep and exhausted, and he died.

  • Psalms 76:6

    At your rebuke, Elohim of Jacob, fell into deep sleep both chariot and horse.

  • Proverbs 10:5

    He who gathers in the summer is a prudent son; he who sleeps in the harvest is a son who brings shame.

  • Daniel 8:18

    And while he was speaking with me, I fell into a deep sleep on my face to the ground; and he touched me and made me stand where I stood.

  • Daniel 10:9

    And I heard the sound of his words; and as I heard the sound of his words, I fell into a deep sleep on my face, with my face to the ground.

  • Jonah 1:5

    And the sailors were afraid, and they cried out, each to his god, and they hurled the objects that were in the ship into the sea to lighten the load for themselves. But Jonah had gone down into the innermost parts of the vessel and had lain down and was sound asleep.

  • Jonah 1:6

    And the chief of the sailors came near to him and said to him, “What is the matter with you, sleeper? Arise, cry out to your god; perhaps that god will give a thought to us, and we will not perish.”