yâshên (יָשֵׁן) — Strong's H3462

יָשֵׁן

yâshên(yaw-shane')

“properly, to be slack or languid, i.e. (by implication) sleep (figuratively, to die); also to grow old, stale or inveterate”

19 occurrencesOld TestamentUncommon Word

Definition

Strong’s Definition

properly, to be slack or languid, i.e. (by implication) sleep (figuratively, to die); also to grow old, stale or inveterate

Translated in KJV as

old (store)remain long(make to) sleep.

a primitive root;

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8 of 19

“For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,”