Quick Definition
to sleep
Strong's Definition
to stun, i.e. stupefy (with sleep or death)
Derivation: a primitive root;
KJV Usage: (be fast a-, be in a deep, cast into a dead, that) sleep(-er, -eth).
TWOT Reference: 2123
Outline of Biblical Usage
Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents
This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
רָדַם (ra.dam) — to sleep. (Niphal) to be asleep, be unconscious, be in heavy sleep, fall into heavy sleep, be fast asleep
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · תַּרְדֵּמָה
Asleep | verb nif
to lie in a deep sleep = state in which humans are deeply asleep; ≈ sometimes associated with security, sometimes with death, sometimes with being inactive
JDG 4:21 · PRO 10:5 · DAN 8:18 · DAN 10:9 · JON 1:5 · JON 1:6
Non-Move | verb nif
to lie still = state in which humans and animals lie still and unmoving, ◄ as if in a deep sleep
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[רָדַם] vb. Niph. be in, or fall into, heavy sleep base