yashen · asleep

What it means

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

Sleeping.

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. In deep sleep, unaware of what is happening around him.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• asleep ×3
• sleeps ×2
• those who sleep ×1
• was sleeping ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• 1 Samuel×1
• 1 Kings×2
• Psalms×1
• Song of Songs×1
• Daniel×1
• Hosea×1

• 1 Samuel 26:7

  David and Abishai came to the people by night, and look, Saul was lying asleep within the camp enclosure, with his spear stuck in the ground at his head; and Abner and the people were lying around him.

• 1 Kings 3:20

  And she rose in the middle of the night and took my son from beside me, while your servant was asleep, and laid him in her bosom, and her dead son she laid in my bosom.

• 1 Kings 18:27

  And it happened at noon that Elijah mocked them and said, “Call out with a loud voice, for he is a god! Perhaps he is musing, or he has stepped aside, or he is on a journey; perhaps he is asleep and must wake up.”

• Psalms 78:65

  And Adonai awoke like one who sleeps, like a mighty man shouting because of wine.

• Song of Songs 5:2

  I was sleeping, but my heart was awake. The voice of my beloved knocking! “Open to me, my sister, my companion, my dove, my perfect one, for my head is filled with dew, my curls with the drops of the night.”

• Daniel 12:2

  And many of those who sleep in the ground of dust will awake, these to eternal life, and those to reproaches, to eternal horror.

• Hosea 7:6

  For they have brought near their heart like an oven in their plotting; all night their baker sleeps; in the morning it burns like a flaming fire.