שֵׁנָה

Genesis 28:16 מִשְּׁנָתוֹ֒ from sleep his

When Jacob woke up, he said, “Surely the LORD is in this place, and I was unaware of it.”

Genesis 31:40 שְׁנָתִ֖י sleep my

As it was, the heat consumed me by day and the frost by night, and sleep fled from my eyes.

Judges 16:14 מִשְּׁנָת֔וֹ from sleep his

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 מִשְּׁנָת֗וֹ from sleep his

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.

Here: "From his sleep" repeats 16:14 word for word. In v.19 Delilah had deliberately put him to sleep on her knees. The sleep that let him break free before is the sleep during which he is undone now.

Esther 6:1 שְׁנַ֣ת [the] sleep of

That night sleep escaped the king; so he ordered the Book of Records, the Chronicles, to be brought in and read to him.

Here: 'The sleep of [the king].' Sleep is the grammatical actor. The most powerful man in the empire cannot command it.

Job 14:12 מִשְּׁנָתָֽם׃ from sleep their

so a man lies down and does not rise. Until the heavens are no more, he will not be awakened or roused from sleep.

Here: 'From their sleep.' The ordinary word for sleep, used here for death, finishes the bedroom picture the verse began with 'lies down.' It describes how death looks from outside (stillness, lying down). It is not a doctrine of what happens to the dead person.

Psalm 76:5 שְׁנָתָ֑ם sleep their

The valiant lie plundered; they sleep their last sleep. No men of might could lift a hand.

Here: "Their sleep." Verb and noun come from the same idea ("slumbered their sleep"), which makes the sleep final and complete. It works like Jeremiah's "sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake" (Jer 51:39, 57): a soft way of saying they are dead.

Psalm 90:5 שֵׁנָ֣ה sleep

You sweep them away in their sleep; they are like the new grass of the morning—

Here: In the Hebrew it describes what people become, not when the flood comes: 'they become sleep'. The idea is something as passing and unreal as a night's sleep or a dream, and probably also the 'sleep' of death. The BSB and WEB 'in their sleep' is one possible way of reading it.

Psalm 127:2 שֵׁנָֽא׃ sleep

In vain you rise early and stay up late, toiling for bread to eat—for He gives sleep to His beloved.

Here: The last word, and the opposite of the anxious worker's shortened nights. It can be read as the gift itself ('he gives his beloved sleep') or as the time of the gift ('he gives to his beloved [while they] sleep'). Either way, rest replaces strain.

Proverbs 3:24 שְׁנָתֶֽךָ׃ sleep your

When you lie down, you will not be afraid; when you rest, your sleep will be sweet.

Here: 'Your sleep', the grammatical subject of 'will be sweet'. Hebrew holds it back to the very last word, so the line ends on the gift itself.

Proverbs 4:16 שְׁ֝נָתָ֗ם sleep their

For they cannot sleep unless they do evil; they are deprived of slumber until they make someone fall.

Here: 'Their sleep.' This is the subject of 'is robbed'. The same noun was used in 3:24, where the father promises the wise son that 'your sleep will be sweet'.

Proverbs 6:4 שֵׁנָ֣ה sleep

Allow no sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids.

Here: The ordinary word for sleep, especially a night's sleep. The same root comes back in 6:9–10, where the lazy man asks for "a little sleep."

Proverbs 6:9 מִשְּׁנָתֶֽךָ׃ from sleep your

How long will you lie there, O slacker? When will you get up from your sleep?

Here: "From your sleep": min (from) + šēnāh (sleep) + "your". Calling it *your* sleep makes it sound like something the man owns and hugs to himself. The next verse picks up the word in the plural (šēnôt, "a little sleep").

Proverbs 6:10 שֵׁ֭נוֹת sleep<s>

A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest,

Proverbs 20:13 שֵׁ֭נָה sleep

Do not love sleep, or you will grow poor; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of food.

Here: Plain sleep. In Proverbs it stands for the sluggard's habit of lying in bed when work needs doing (6:9–11; 19:15; 24:33).

Proverbs 24:33 שֵׁ֭נוֹת sleep<s>

A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest,

Ecclesiastes 5:12 שְׁנַ֣ת [the] sleep of

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 שֵׁנָ֕ה sleep

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 31:26 וּשְׁנָתִ֖י and sleep my

At this I awoke and looked around. My sleep had been most pleasant to me.

Here: "And my sleep." The ordinary word for sleep, made personal with "my". It is placed first in its clause, which puts weight on it: as for my sleep, it had been sweet.

Jeremiah 51:39 שְׁנַת־ a sleep of

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.

Here: 'A sleep of…'. Hebrew repeats the root: they will 'sleep a sleep'. The repetition adds weight and leads into what kind of sleep it is.

Jeremiah 51:57 שְׁנַת־ a sleep of

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.

Here: The noun repeats the verb ('sleep a sleep'), a Hebrew way of stressing the action. The next word says what kind of sleep it is.

Daniel 2:1 וּשְׁנָת֖וֹ and sleep his

In the second year of his reign, Nebuchadnezzar had dreams that troubled his spirit, and sleep escaped him.

Here: "And his sleep". It sounds like shnat, "year", at the start of the verse. The king who rules the years cannot keep hold of his own sleep.

Zechariah 4:1 מִשְּׁנָתֽוֹ׃ from sleep his

Then the angel who was speaking with me returned and woke me, as a man is awakened from his sleep.