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Lexicon :: Strong's H8142 - šēnā'

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שֵׁנָא
Transliteration
šēnā'
Pronunciation
shay-naw'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 928c

Strong’s Definitions

שֵׁנָה shênâh, shay-naw'; or שֵׁנָא shênâʼ; (Psalm 127:2), from H3462; sleep:—sleep.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 23x

The KJV translates Strong's H8142 in the following manner: sleep (23x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 23x
The KJV translates Strong's H8142 in the following manner: sleep (23x).
  1. sleep

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
שֵׁנָה shênâh, shay-naw'; or שֵׁנָא shênâʼ; (Psalm 127:2), from H3462; sleep:—sleep.
STRONGS H8142: Abbreviations
שֵׁנָה, שֵׁנָא, שְׁנָת noun feminine sleepשֵׁנָה Psalm 90:5 + 3 times; שֵׁנָא Psalm 127:2, שְׁנָת [H8153 Psalm 132:4] (Ges§ 80 g, h.); construct שְׁנַת Jeremiah 51:39 + 3 times; שְׁנָתִי Genesis 31:40; Jeremiah 31:26, etc.; plural absolute שֵׁנוֺת Proverbs 6:10; Proverbs 24:33; — sleep Genesis 28:16 (J), Judges 16:14, 20; Proverbs 3:24; Proverbs 6:9; Proverbs 20:13; Ecclesiastes 5:11; Jeremiah 31:26; Zechariah 4:1; Proverbs 6:4 (|| תְּנוּמָה); מְעַט שֵׁנוֺת מְעַט תְּנוּמוֺת Proverbs 6:10 = Proverbs 24:33 (these two of sluggard אִישׁ עָצֵל; see also Proverbs 6:9; Proverbs 20:13); note also וַתִּדּד שְׁנָתִי מֵעֵינָ֑י Genesis 31:40 (E) and my sleep fled from mine eyes; נָ֑דֲדָה שְׁנַת הַמֶּלֶךְ Esther 6:1; וְנִגְזְלָה שְׁנָתָם Proverbs 4:16; וּשְׁנָתוֺ נִהְיְתָה עָלָיו Daniel 2:1; שֵׁנָה בְּעֵינָיו אֵינֶנּוּ רֹאֵה Ecclesiastes 8:16; אִם אֶתֵּן שְׁנָת לְעֵינָ֑י [H8153 Psalm 132:4] (all of lack of sleep); יִתֵּן לִידִידוֺ שֵׁנָ֑א Psalm 127:2 = he giveth to his beloved in sleep, compare Ges§ 118, 3; of sleep of death (so Arabic bdb044601Dozyii. 806) Job 14:12; Psalm 90:5 (compare De Che); so, as accusative of congnate meaning with verb, Psalm 76:6; Jeremiah 51:39, 57 (in these two שְׁנַתעֿוֺלָם).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

28:16; 31:40; 31:40

Judges

16:14; 16:20

Esther

6:1

Job

14:12

Psalms

76:6; 90:5; 90:5; 127:2; 127:2

Proverbs

3:24; 4:16; 6:4; 6:9; 6:9; 6:10; 6:10; 20:13; 20:13; 24:33; 24:33

Ecclesiastes

5:11; 8:16

Jeremiah

31:26; 31:26; 51:39; 51:39; 51:57

Daniel

2:1

Zechariah

4:1

H8142

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H8142 matches the Hebrew שֵׁנָא (šēnā'),
which occurs 23 times in 23 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:16 - Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and he said, “Without any doubt the LORD is in this place, and I did not realize it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:40 - “This was my situation: by day the heat consumed me and by night the cold, and [fn]I could not sleep.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:14 - So while he slept, Delilah took the seven locks (braids) of his hair and wove them into the web]. And she fastened it with the pin [of the loom] and said to him, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” And he awoke from his sleep and pulled out the pin of the [weaver’s] loom and the web.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:20 - She said, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” And he awoke from his sleep and said, “I will go out as I have time after time and shake myself free.” For Samson did not know that the LORD had departed from him.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:1 -

On that night [fn]the king could not sleep; so he ordered that the book of records and memorable deeds, the chronicles, be brought, and they were read before the king.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:12 -

So man lies down and does not rise [again].

Until the heavens are no longer,

The dead will not awake nor be raised from their sleep.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 76:5 -

The stouthearted have been stripped of their spoil,

They have slept the sleep [of death];

And none of the warriors could use his hands.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 90:5 -

You have swept them away like a flood, they fall asleep [forgotten as soon as they are gone];

In the morning they are like grass which grows anew—

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 127:2 -

It is vain for you to rise early,

To retire late,

To eat the bread of anxious labors—

For He gives [blessings] to His beloved even in his sleep.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:24 -

When you lie down, you will not be afraid;

When you lie down, your sleep will be sweet.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:16 -

For the wicked cannot sleep unless they do evil;

And they are deprived of sleep unless they make someone stumble and fall.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:4 -

Give no [unnecessary] sleep to your eyes,

Nor slumber to your eyelids;

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:9 -

How long will you lie down, O lazy one?

When will you arise from your sleep [and learn self-discipline]?

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:10 -

“Yet a little sleep, a little slumber,

A little folding of the hands to lie down and rest”—

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 20:13 -

Do not love [excessive] sleep, or you will become poor;

Open your eyes [so that you can do your work] and you will be satisfied with bread.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:33 -

“Yet a little sleep, a little slumber,

A little folding of the hands to rest [and daydream],”

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:12 - The sleep of a working man is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the full stomach (greed) of the rich [who hungers for even more] will not let him sleep.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:16 -

When I applied my mind to know wisdom and to see the activities [of mankind] that take place upon the earth—how some men seem to sleep neither day nor night—

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:26 - At this I (Jeremiah) awoke and looked, and my [trancelike] sleep was sweet [in the assurance it gave] to me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:39 -

“When they are [fn]inflamed [with wine and lust during their drinking bouts], I will prepare them a feast [of My wrath]

And make them drunk, that they may rejoice

And may sleep a perpetual sleep

And not wake up,” declares the LORD.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:57 -

“I will make her princes and her wise men drunk,

Her governors and her commanders and her mighty warriors;

They will sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake up,”

Says the King—the LORD of hosts is His name.

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:1 -

In the second year (604 B.C.) of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar had dreams which troubled and disturbed his spirit and [interfered with] his ability to sleep.

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 4:1 -

And the angel who was speaking with me came back and awakened me, like a man who is awakened out of his sleep.

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