yashen · sleep

What it means

yashen (יָשֵׁן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “sleep”.

Of a disease or a thing, grow old, become chronic.

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. To fall asleep, or sleep the sleep of death.
2. To grow old, be long-standing.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• sleep ×10
• slept ×4
• He fell asleep ×1
• chronic ×1
• long stored ×1
• sleepers ×1
• sleeps ×1
• were asleep ×1
• you have grown old ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×2
• Leviticus×2
• Deuteronomy×1
• Judges×1
• 1 Samuel×1
• 1 Kings×1
• Job×1
• Psalms×5
• Proverbs×1
• Ecclesiastes×1
• Song of Songs×1
• Isaiah×1
• Jeremiah×2
• Ezekiel×1

• 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 41:5

  He fell asleep and dreamed a second time, and look, seven ears of grain were coming up on one stalk, plump and good.

• Leviticus 13:11

  it is a chronic leprosy in the skin of his body, and the priest shall declare him unclean; he shall not isolate him, for he is unclean.

• Leviticus 26:10

  And you will eat old grain long stored, and you will clear out the old to make room for the new.

• Deuteronomy 4:25

  When you father children and children’s children, and you have grown old in the land, and you act corruptly and make a carved image, the form of anything, and do what is evil in the eyes of YHWH your Elohim, provoking him to anger,

• Judges 16:19

  She made him sleep on her knees, and she called for a man and she shaved the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength left 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.

• 1 Kings 19:5

  He lay down and slept under a broom tree; and there, an angel was touching him, and he said to him, “Get up, eat.”

• Job 3:13

  For now I would have lain down and been calm; I would have slept; then I would have rest

• Psalms 3:5

  I lay down and slept; I awoke, for YHWH sustains me.

• Psalms 4:8

  In peace I will lie down and right away sleep, for you alone, YHWH, make me dwell in safety.

• Psalms 13:3

  Look at me, answer me, YHWH my Elohim; give light to my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death,

• Psalms 44:23

  Wake up! Why do you sleep, Adonai? Rouse yourself! Do not reject us forever.

• Psalms 121:4

  Look, he will not slumber and will not sleep, the one who keeps Israel.

• Proverbs 4:16

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

• 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.

• Song of Songs 7:9

  and your palate like the good wine that goes to my beloved smoothly, that makes the lips of sleepers speak.

• 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.

• 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.

• Ezekiel 34:25

  And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and I will make evil animals cease from the land; and they will live in the wilderness securely and sleep in the forests.