Shenah שֵׁנָה

Shenah (Hebrew שֵׁנָה, Strong's H8142) is a Hebrew feminine noun meaning “sleep”. It occurs 23 times in 23 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Topics

• Sleep

Verses

Every verse with Shenah, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Genesis

• Genesis 28:16
  And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the Lord is in this place; and I knew it not.When Jacob woke up, he thought, “Surely the LORD is in this place, and I was unaware of it.”
• Genesis 31:40
  Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.As it was, the heat consumed me by day and the frost by night, and sleep fled from my eyes.

Judges

• Judges 16:14
  And she fastened it with the pin, and said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awaked out of his sleep, and went away with the pin of the beam, and with the web.So while he slept, Delilah took the seven braids of his hair and wove them into the web.Then she tightened it with a pin and called to him, “Samson, the Philistines are here!” But he awoke from his sleep and pulled out the pin with the loom and the web.
• Judges 16:20
  And she said, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself. And he wist not that the Lord was departed from him.Then she called out, “Samson, the Philistines are here!” When Samson awoke from his sleep, he thought, “I will escape as I did before and shake myself free.” But he did not know that the LORD had departed from him.

Esther

• Esther 6:1
  On that night could not the king sleep, and he commanded to bring the book of records of the chronicles; and they were read before the king.That night sleep escaped the king; so he ordered the Book of Records, the Chronicles, to be brought in and read to him.

Job

• Job 14:12
  So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.so a man lies down and does not rise. Until the heavens are no more, he will not be awakened or roused from sleep.

Psalms

• Psalm 76:5
  The stouthearted are spoiled, they have slept their sleep: and none of the men of might have found their hands.The valiant lie plundered; they sleep their last sleep. No men of might could lift a hand.
• Psalm 90:5
  Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.You whisk them away in their sleep; they are like the new grass of the morning—
• Psalm 127:2
  It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.In vain you rise early and stay up late, toiling for bread to eat— for He gives sleep to His beloved.

Proverbs

• Proverbs 3:24
  When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.When you lie down, you will not be afraid; when you rest, your sleep will be sweet.
• Proverbs 4:16
  For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.For they cannot sleep unless they do evil; they are deprived of slumber until they make someone fall.
• Proverbs 6:4
  Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.Allow no sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids.
• Proverbs 6:9
  How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?How long will you lie there, O slacker? When will you get up from your sleep?
• Proverbs 6:10
  Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest,
• Proverbs 20:13
  Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.Do not love sleep, or you will grow poor; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of food.
• Proverbs 24:33
  Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest,

Ecclesiastes

• Ecclesiastes 5:12
  The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.The sleep of the worker is sweet, whether he eats little or much, but the abundance of the rich man permits him no sleep.
• Ecclesiastes 8:16
  When I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes:)When I applied my mind to know wisdom and to observe the task that one performs on the earth—though his eyes do not see sleep in the day or even in the night—

Jeremiah

• Jeremiah 31:26
  Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me.At this I awoke and looked around. My sleep had been most pleasant to me.
• Jeremiah 51:39
  In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the Lord.While they are flushed with heat, I will serve them a feast, and I will make them drunk so that they may revel; then they will fall asleep forever and never wake up, declares the LORD.
• Jeremiah 51:57
  And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is the Lord of hosts.I will make her princes and wise men drunk, along with her governors, officials, and warriors. Then they will fall asleep forever and not wake up,” declares the King, whose name is the LORD of Hosts.

Daniel

• Daniel 2:1
  And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, wherewith his spirit was troubled, and his sleep brake from him.In the second year of his reign, Nebuchadnezzar had dreams that troubled his spirit, and sleep escaped him.

Zechariah

• Zechariah 4:1
  And the angel that talked with me came again, and waked me, as a man that is wakened out of his sleep,Then the angel who was speaking with me returned and woke me, as a man is awakened from his sleep.

Notes

1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).