# יָשֵׁן (yashen)

Israeli respelling: ya-shen. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H3462. 21 Old Testament occurrences.

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

King James renderings: old (store), remain long, (make to) sleep.

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

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/yashen-h3462

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 2:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/2/21) — And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;
- [Genesis 41:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/41/5) — And he slept and dreamed the second time: and, behold, seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good.
- [Leviticus 13:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/13/11) — It is an old leprosy in the skin of his flesh, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean, and shall not shut him up: for he is unclean.
- [Leviticus 26:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/26/10) — And ye shall eat old store, and bring forth the old because of the new.
- [Deuteronomy 4:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/4/25) — When thou shalt beget children, and children’s children, and ye shall have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and mak…
- [Judges 16:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/16/19) — And she made him sleep upon her knees; and she called for a man, and she caused him to shave off the seven locks of his head; and she began…
- [1 Samuel 26:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/26/12) — So David took the spear and the cruse of water from Saul’s bolster; and they gat them away, and no man saw it, nor knew it, neither awaked:…
- [1 Kings 19:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/19/5) — And as he lay and slept under a juniper tree, behold, then an angel touched him, and said unto him, Arise and eat.
- [Job 3:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/3/13) — For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
- [Psalms 3:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/3/5) — I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained me.
- [Psalms 4:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/4/8) — I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, LORD, only makest me dwell in safety.
- [Psalms 13:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/13/3) — Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;
- [Psalms 44:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/44/23) — Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.
- [Psalms 121:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/121/4) — Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.
- [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.
- [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.
- [Song of Solomon 7:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/song-of-solomon/7/9) — And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak.
- [Isaiah 5:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/5/27) — None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latche…
- [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…
- [Ezekiel 34:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/34/25) — And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land: and they shall dwell safely in the…