Lexical Definition

‎רָדַם‎ râdam (raw-dam') to sleep ^H:V
a primitive root

(be fast a-, be in a deep, cast into a dead, that) sleep(-er, -eth).

• to stun, i.e. stupefy (with sleep or death)

1) (Niphal) to be asleep, be unconscious, be in heavy sleep, fall into heavy sleep, be fast asleep

See Greek: ἔκστασις · ἐξίστημι · θαμβέω · κατανύσσω · κοιμάω · νυστάζω · πίπτω

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[‎רָדַם‎] verb Niph`al be in, or fall into, heavy sleep (Late Hebrew id.; compare Arabic stop up (door, gap, etc.), whence perhaps be deaf (stopped up) to sounds, etc.); — Perfect 3 masculine singular ‎נִרְדַּם‎ Judg 4:21 1 singular ‎נִרְדַּמְתִּי‎ Dan 8:8 Imperfect 3 masculine singular ‎וַיֵּרָדֵם‎ Jonah 1:5 Participle ‎נִרְדָּם‎ Prov 10:5 + 3 t.; — be or fall fast asleep: Judg 4:21; Jonah 1:5 (after ‎וַיִּשְׁכַב‎), vJonah 1:6 (participle, Ges^{«GKC:120b»§ 120b} Da^{Synt. § 70} (a)); participle as substantive ‎נִרְדָּם בַּקָּצִיר‎ Prov 10:5 of sleep of death Ps 76:7* stunning effect of awe and dread Dan 8:18; Dan 10:9 (both + ‎אָ֑רְצָה‎ [‎ וּפָנַי ‎] ‎עַלפָּֿנַי‎.

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