יָשֵׁן
yâshên · yaw-shane'
sleepy
Lexicon
Derivation: from H3462 (יָשֵׁן);
sleepy
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: asleep, (one out of) sleep(-eth, -ing), slept.
Letters
- יYod10
Picture: arm and closed hand
- Concrete
- hand · arm · work
- Extended
- a deed · to make · to work · to throw or worship
- שShin300
Picture: two front teeth (or a composite bow)
- Concrete
- teeth · sharp · press · bow
- Extended
- to consume · to destroy · to press or grind · to change · again
- נNun50
Picture: a sprouting seed, or a fish in water
- Concrete
- seed · sprout · fish · offspring
- Extended
- life · continuation · heir · to perpetuate
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the hand that works › to consume, to destroy › the seed, life continuing
The hand that works that works to consume, to destroy of the seed, life continuing.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of יָשֵׁן above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
9 occurrences · 9 OT · 0 NT · 9 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- sleeping1 · 11%
- for they were all asleep1 · 11%
- slept1 · 11%
- he sleepeth1 · 11%
- as one out of sleep1 · 11%
- i sleep1 · 11%
- of those that are asleep1 · 11%
- of them that sleep1 · 11%
- sleepeth1 · 11%
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.