Lexical Definition

‎יָשֵׁן‎ yâshên (yaw-shane') sleeping ^H:A
from ‎יָשֵׁן‎

asleep, (one out of) sleep(-eth, -ing), slept.

• sleepy

1) sleeping

See Greek: ὕπνος

Brown-Driver-Briggs

I. ‎יָשֵׁן‎ adjective sleeping; — masculine singular ‎יָשֵׁן‎ 1Sam 26:7 + 3 t., feminine singular ‎יֲשֵׁנֵה‎ 1Kgs 3:20; Song 5:2 plural ‎יְשֵׁנִים‎ 1Sam 26:12; Song 7:10* construct ‎יֲשֵׁנֵי‎ Dan 12:2 — asleep, sleeping 1Sam 26:7; 1Sam 26:12; 1Kgs 3:20; Song 5:2; Song 7:10* so, figurative, Hos 7:6, explained as = ‎יֶעְשַׁן‎ smoketh, compare Deut 29:19*, by RS^{J Phil. xvi. 1888, 72; Proph. iv. n. 19} Che with ‎אַפְּהֶם‎ (Ges^{«GKC:1»§ 1}. R. 1 a) for ‎אֹפֵהֶם‎; but < We, their anger sleepeth; of Baal 1Kgs 18:27 in simile of ‎׳‎‎י‎ Ps 78:65 of dead, as sleeping in dust, Dan 12:2.

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