Lexical Definition

‎שֵׁנָה‎ shênâh (shay-naw') sleep ^H:N-F
or שֵׁנָא shênâʼ (shay-naw'); (Psalm 127:2), from ‎יָשֵׁן‎

sleep.

• sleep

1) sleep

See Greek: νυστάζω · ὕπνος · ὕπνος

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎שֵׁנָה‎, ‎שֵׁנָא‎, ‎שְׁנָת‎ noun feminine sleep — ‎שֵׁנָה‎ Ps 90:5 + 3 t.; ‎שֵׁנָא‎ Ps 127:2, ‎שְׁנָת‎ Ps 132:4 (Ges^{«GKC:80g»§ 80 g, h}.); construct ‎שְׁנַת‎ Jer 51:39 + 3 t.; ‎שְׁנָתִי‎ Gen 31:40; Jer 31:26, etc.; plural absolute ‎שֵׁנוֺת‎ Prov 6:10; Prov 24:33 — sleep Gen 28:16 (J), Judg 16:14; Judg 16:20; Prov 3:24; Prov 6:9; Prov 20:13; Eccl 5:11*; Jer 31:26; Zech 4:1; Prov 6:4 (|| ‎תְּנוּמָה‎); ‎מְעַט שֵׁנוֺת מְעַט תְּנוּמוֺת‎ Prov 6:10 = Prov 24:33 (these two of sluggard ‎אִישׁ עָצֵל‎; see also Prov 6:9; Prov 20:13); note also ‎וַתִּדּד שְׁנָתִי מֵעֵינָ֑י‎ Gen 31:40 (E) and my sleep fled from mine eyes; ‎נָ֑דֲדָה שְׁנַת הַמֶּלֶךְ‎ Esth 6:1 ‎וְנִגְזְלָה‎ ‎שְׁנָתָם‎ Prov 4:16 ‎וּשְׁנָתוֺ נִהְיְתָה עָלָיו‎ Dan 2:1 ‎שֵׁנָה בְּעֵינָיו‎ ‎אֵינֶנּוּ רֹאֵה‎ Eccl 8:16 ‎אִם אֶתֵּן שְׁנָת לְעֵינָ֑י‎ Ps 132:4 (all of lack of sleep); ‎יִתֵּן לִידִידוֺ שֵׁנָ֑א‎ Ps 127:2 = he giveth to his beloved in sleep, compare Ges^{«GKC:118»§ 118}, 3; of sleep of death (so Arabic Dozy^{ii. 806}) Job 14:12; Ps 90:5 (compare De Che); so, as accusative of congnate meaning with verb, Ps 76:6*; Jer 51:39; Jer 51:57 (in these two ‎שְׁנַתעֿוֺלָם‎). ‎יֶשְׁנוֺ‎ see ‎יֵשׁ‎.

‎ישׁן‎ (√ of following; Biblical Hebrew ‎ישׁן‎, ‎שֵׁנָה‎).

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