# שֵׁנָה (shenah)

Israeli respelling: she-nah. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H8142. 23 Old Testament occurrences.

sleep

King James renderings: sleep.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/shenah-h8142

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 28:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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.
- [Genesis 31:40](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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.
- [Judges 16:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 wi…
- [Judges 16:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 sh…
- [Esther 6:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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.
- [Job 14:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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.
- [Psalms 76:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/76/5) — The stouthearted are spoiled, they have slept their sleep: and none of the men of might have found their hands.
- [Psalms 90:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/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.
- [Psalms 127:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/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.
- [Proverbs 3:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/3/24) — When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.
- [Proverbs 4:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/4/16) — For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
- [Proverbs 6:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/6/4) — Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.
- [Proverbs 6:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/6/9) — How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?
- [Proverbs 6:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/6/10) — Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
- [Proverbs 20:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/20/13) — Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
- [Proverbs 24:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/24/33) — Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
- [Ecclesiastes 5:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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.
- [Ecclesiastes 8:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 nigh…
- [Jeremiah 31:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/31/26) — Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me.
- [Jeremiah 51:39](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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, sai…
- [Jeremiah 51:57](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 sle…
- [Daniel 2:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [Zechariah 4:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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,