רָדַם
râdam · raw-dam'
to stun, i.e. stupefy (with sleep or death)
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to stun, i.e. stupefy (with sleep or death)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: (be fast a-, be in a deep, cast into a dead, that) sleep(-er, -eth).
Letters
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
- דDalet4
Picture: tent door hanging down
- Concrete
- door · curtain · entrance
- Extended
- a way in or out · moving back and forth · a path · hanging
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the head, the highest › the doorway, the way in › water, chaos, the mighty deep
The head, the highest of the doorway, the way in of water, chaos, the mighty deep.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of רָדַם 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
7 occurrences · 7 OT · 0 NT · 5 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- for he was fast asleep1 · 14%
- are cast into a dead sleep1 · 14%
- but he that sleepeth1 · 14%
- with me, i was in a deep sleep1 · 14%
- then was i in a deep sleep1 · 14%
- and was fast asleep1 · 14%
- unto him, what meanest thou, o sleeper1 · 14%
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.