Lexical Definition

‎יָשֵׁן‎ yâshên (yaw-shane') to sleep ^H:V
a primitive root

old (store), remain long, (make to) sleep.

• properly, to be slack or languid, i.e. (by implication) sleep (figuratively, to die)
• also to grow old, stale or inveterate

1) to sleep, be asleep
1a) (Qal) to sleep, go to sleep, be asleep
1b) (Niphal)
1b1) to remain a long time, be stored up
1b2) to be festering (of leprosy)
1c) (Piel) to cause to sleep, entice to sleep

See Greek: ἀρχαῖος · καθεύδω · κοιμάω · παλαιός · παλαιός · παλαιόω · χρονίζω

Brown-Driver-Briggs

Aramaic form: שֵׁנָה
[‎יָשֵׁן‎] verb sleep (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic noun sleep; Arabic be sleepy, , sleep Assyrian šittiu, sleep, Dl^{HWB 246}, šunatu, šuttu, dream, Id^{ib, Flood: iv. 22} Asrb^{Annals,v R. 2, 97}) —

Qal Perfect ‎יָשַׁנְתִּי‎ Job 3:13 ‎וְיָָֽשְׁנוּ‎ consecutive Jer 51:39 + 2 t.; Imperfect ‎יִישָׁ֑ן‎ Isa 5:27; Ps 121:4 ‎וַיִישַׁן‎ 1Kgs 19:5, etc.; Infinitive construct ‎לִישׁוֺן‎ Eccl 5:11* — sleep, go to sleep, and be asleep, Gen 2:21 (J), Gen 41:5 (E), Ezek 34:25; Job 3:13; Ps 3:6*; Ps 4:9*; Prov 4:16; Eccl 5:11*, also 2Sam 4:6 ᵐ5 We Dr Kit Bu, see ‎חֹמֶשׁ‎; with ‎לֹא‎, of Ass. army Isa 5:27 (|| ‎נוּם‎); of Baal 1Kgs 19:5 of ‎׳‎‎י‎, ‎עוּרָה לָמָּה תִישַׁן‎ ‎אֲדֹנָי‎ 1Kgs 44:24 ‎לֹא יִישָׁ֑ן‎ 1Kgs 12:14 (|| ‎נוּם‎); with accusative of congnate meaning with verb ‎שְׁנַת עוֺלָם‎ ‎׳‎‎ישׁ‎ Jer 51:39; Jer 51:57 (see ‎שֵׁנָה‎), of death, compare ‎אִישַׁן‎ ‎הַמָּוֶת‎ Ps 13:4*. Niph`al only in derivatives sense of become inactive or stationary; Perfect ‎וְנוֺשַׁנְתֶּם‎ consecutive Deut 4:25 and ye be grown old ‎בָּאָרֶץ‎, i.e. (see Di Dr) have lost freshness of first impressions; of inanimate things, be old, stale , only Participle ‎יָשָׁן נוֺשָׁן‎ Lev 26:10 (H), feminine ‎צרעת נוֺשֶׁנֶת‎ Lev 13:11 = old leprosy (P); these possibly denominative from ‎יָשָׁן‎ Pi`el causat. Imperfect ‎וַתְּיַשְּׁנֵהוּ‎ Judg 16:19and she made him sleep.

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