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title: יָשֵׁן — sleep · The Tanakh dictionary
description: יָשֵׁן (lemma:יָשֵׁן), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: sleep. BDB 1906: vb. sleep. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# יָשֵׁן

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«יָשֵׁן» in the Tanakh dictionary: **sleep** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 3 times · **Key:** lemma:יָשֵׁן · **BDB:** יָשֵׁן

### Glosses

growing.old (1); grown.old (1); you.will.grow.old (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

sleep [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/lemma_3a_5d9_5b8_5e9_5b5_5c1_5df/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. sleep [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/lemma_3a_5d9_5b8_5e9_5b5_5c1_5df/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. sleep (NH id.; Aramaic n. ܫܶܢܬܳܐ sleep; Arabic وَسِنَ be sleepy, وَسَنٌ, سِنَةٌ sleep; Assyrian šittu, sleep, DlHWB 246, šunatu, šuttu, dream, Id ib, Flood iv. 22 AsrbAnnals, v R. 2, 97)— Pf. יָשַׁנְתִּי Jb 3:13; וְיָֽשְׁנוּ consec. Je 51:39 + 2 times; Impf. יִישָׁ֑ן Is 5:27 ψ 121:4; וַיִּישַׁן 1 K 19:5, etc.; Inf. cstr. לִישׁוֹן Ec 5:11;—sleep, go to sleep, and be asleep, Gn 2:21 (J), 41:5 (E), Ez 34:25; Jb 3:13 ψ 3:6; 4:9; Pr 4:16; Ec 5:11, also 2 S 4:6 𝔊 We Dr Kit Bu, vid. חֹמֶשׁ; c. לֹא, of Assyrian army Is 5:27 (‖ נוּם); of Baal 1 K 19:5; of י׳, עוּרָה לָמָּה תִישַׁן אֲדֹנָי ψ 44:24; לֹא יִישָׁ֑ן 121:4 (‖ נוּם); c. acc. cogn. ישׁ׳ שְׁנַת עוֹלָם Je 51:39, 57 (v. שֵׁנָה), of death, cf. אִישַׁן הַמָּוֶת ψ 13:4. . only in deriv. sense of become inactive or stationary; Pf. וְנוֹשַׁנְתֶּם consec. Dt 4:25 and ye be grown old בָּאָרֶץ, i.e. (v. Di Dr) have lost freshness of first impressions; of inanimate things, be old, stale, only Pt. יָשָׁן נוֹשָׁן Lv 26:10 (H), f. צרעת נוֹשֶׁנֶת Lv 13:11 = old leprosy (P); these poss. denom. from יָשָׁן. . causat. Impf. וַתְּיַשְּׁנֵהוּ Ju 16:19 and she made him sleep.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (10 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (7 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «יָשֵׁן» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/lemma_3a_5d9_5b8_5e9_5b5_5c1_5df/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Leviticus 26:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.26.10/)

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וַאֲכַלְתֶּ֥ם יָשָׁ֖ן נוֹשָׁ֑ן וְיָשָׁ֕ן מִפְּנֵ֥י חָדָ֖שׁ תּוֹצִֽיאוּ׃

*Word for word:* and you.will.eat old.harvest growing.old and old.harvest from before \[the\].new.\[harvest\] you.will.bring.out

*JPS 1917:* And ye shall eat old store long kept, and ye shall bring forth the old from before the new.

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[Leviticus 13:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.13.11/)

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צָרַ֨עַת נוֹשֶׁ֤נֶת הִוא֙ בְּע֣וֹר בְּשָׂר֔וֹ וְטִמְּא֖וֹ הַכֹּהֵ֑ן לֹ֣א יַסְגִּרֶ֔נּוּ כִּ֥י טָמֵ֖א הֽוּא׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].a.serious.skin.disease grown.old it in the.skin his.flesh his and he will.declare.him.unclean the priest not he will.shut.him.up (dm) \[is\].unclean he

*JPS 1917:* it is an old leprosy in the skin of his flesh, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean; he shall not shut him up; for he is unclean.

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