ὑπνόω
sleep
Where this word appears
Every passage where ὑπνόω appears in the Greek Septuagint — 18 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 2:21 ὑπνόω And God brought a trance upon Adam, and he slept, and he took one of his ribs, and filled up the flesh instead thereof.
- 1 Samuel 26:12 ὑπνόω So David took the spear, and the pitcher of water from his bolster, and they went home: and there was no one that saw, and no one that knew, and there was no one that awoke, all being asleep, for a stupor from the Lord had fallen upon them.
- 1 Kings 19:5 ὑπνόω And he lay down and slept there under a tree; and behold, some one touched him, and said to him, Arise and eat.
- Job 3:13 ὑπνόω Now I should have lain down and been quiet, I should have slept and been at rest,
- Psalms 3:6 ὑπνόω I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, who beset me round about.
- Psalms 4:9 ὑπνόω
- Psalms 12:4 ὑπνόω lest at any time my enemy say, I have prevailed against him: my persecutors will exult if ever I should be moved.
- Psalms 43:24 ὑπνόω Therefore turn you your face away, and forget our poverty and our affliction?
- Psalms 75:6 ὑπνόω At your rebuke, O God of Jacob, the riders on horses slumbered.
- Psalms 120:4 ὑπνόω Behold, he that keeps Israel shall not slumber nor sleep.
- Proverbs 3:24 ὑπνόω For if you rest, you shall be undismayed; and if you sleep, you shall slumber sweetly.
- Proverbs 4:16 ὑπνόω For they can’t sleep, unless they have done evil: their sleep is taken away, and they rest not.
- Ecclesiastes 5:11 ὑπνόω The sleep of a servant is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but to one who is satiated with wealth, there is none that suffers him to sleep.
- Jeremiah 14:9 ὑπνόω Will you be as a man asleep, or as a strong man that can’t save? yet you are among us, O Lord, and your name is called upon us; forget us not.
- Jeremiah 26:27 ὑπνόω But fear not you, my servant Jacob, neither be you alarmed, Israel: for, behold, I will save you from afar, and your seed from their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and be at ease, and sleep, and there shall be no one to trouble him.
- Jeremiah 28:39 ὑπνόω In their heat I will give them a draught, and make them drunk, that they may be stupified, and sleep an everlasting sleep, and not awake, says the Lord.
- Ezekiel 34:25 ὑπνόω And I will make with David a covenant of peace and I will utterly destroy evil beasts from off the land; and they shall dwell in the wilderness, and sleep in the forests.
- Joel 1:13 ὑπνόω Gird yourselves with sackcloth, and lament, you⌃ priests: mourn, you⌃ that serve at the altar: go in, sleep in sackcloths, you⌃ that minister to God: for the meat-offering and drink-offering are withheld from the house of your God.
About this word
About this word
ὑπνόω (hypnóō), “sleep,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 18 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →