# H3462 יָשֵׁן

יָשֵׁן (yâshên), Strong’s H3462: properly, to be slack or languid, i.e. (by implication) sleep (figuratively, to die); also to grow old, stale or inveterate KJV: old (store), remain long, (make to)…

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

KJV: old (store), remain long, (make to) sleep.

Occurs 22 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [יָשֵׁן] vb. sleep
- Qal sleep, go to sleep, and be sleep
- Niph. only in deriv. sense of become inactive or stationary
- Pi. causat. she made him sleep

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 2:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/2?v=21) — The LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep. As the man slept, he took one of his ribs, and closed up the…
- [Genesis 41:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/41?v=5) — He slept and dreamed a second time; and behold, seven heads of grain came up on one stalk, healthy and good.
- [Leviticus 13:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/13?v=11) — it is a chronic leprosy in the skin of his body, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean. He shall not isolate him…
- [Leviticus 26:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/26?v=10) — You shall eat old supplies long kept, and you shall move out the old because of the new.
- [Deuteronomy 4:25](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/4?v=25) — When you father children and children’s children, and you have been long in the land, and then corrupt yourselves, and…
- [Judges 16:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/16?v=19) — She made him sleep on her knees; and she called for a man and shaved off the seven locks of his head; and she began to…
- [1 Samuel 26:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/26?v=12) — So David took the spear and the jar of water from Saul’s head, and they went away. No man saw it, or knew it, nor did…
- [1 Kings 19:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/19?v=5) — He lay down and slept under a juniper tree; and behold, an angel touched him, and said to him, “Arise and eat!”
- [Isaiah 5:27](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/5?v=27) — No one shall be weary nor stumble among them; no one shall slumber nor sleep, neither shall the belt of their waist be…
- [Jeremiah 51:39](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/51?v=39) — When they are inflamed, I will make their feast, and I will make them drunk, that they may rejoice, and sleep a…