ὕπνος
sleep
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
1 verse where G5258 appears in the Genitive case in the Book of Acts. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Acts
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Greek noun υπνος centers on the idea of “sleep.” With only 5 verses it sits in the long tail of Greek New Testament vocabulary. Debuting at Matthew 1:24, it then recurs through the corpus. Sharing its root, it stands alongside υπο, υπαγω and υπακουω. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G5258 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 5
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 5 distinct verses.
- 5 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 5 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,476
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,476 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 5 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 5 distinct verses.
- Gospels 3 verses · 60%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 2 verses · 40%
- Johannine 1 verse · 20%
- Pauline corpus 1 verse · 20%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Sleep 6×
- American Standard Version: Sleep 6×
- Berean Standard Bible: Sleep 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Sleep 5×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G5258 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G5258 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G5258 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 2 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G5258 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- sleep
Word origin
Derived from υπο (hypó) (G5259) — under.
From an obsolete primary (perhaps akin to G5259 through the idea of subsilience ); sleep that is (figuratively) spiritual torpor : - sleep.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G5258 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ὕπνου hýpnou | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 1:24 | 4 |
| ὕπνῳ hýpnō | Noun, Dative, Singular, Masculine | Luke 9:32 | 2 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G5258, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- υπαγω hypágō G5217 to depart
- υπακουω hypakoúō G5219 to listen
- υπανδρος hýpandros G5220 under (married)
- υπανταω hypantáō G5221 to meet
- υπαρχω hypárchō G5225 to be at hand
- υπεικω hypeíkō G5226 to yield
- υπεναντιος hypenantíos G5227 adversary
- υπεχω hypéchō G5254 to sustain
- υπηρετης hypērétēs G5257 servant
- υποβαλλω hypobállō G5260 to instigate
- υπογραμμος hypogrammós G5261 example
- υποδεικνυμι hypodeíknymi G5263 to demonstrate
- υποδεχομαι hypodéchomai G5264 to welcome
- υποδεω hypodéō G5265 to bind on
- υποδικος hypódikos G5267 debtor
- υποζυγιον hypozýgion G5268 beast of burden
- υποζωννυμι hypozṓnnymi G5269 to undergird
- υποκατω hypokátō G5270 underneath
- υποκρινομαι hypokrínomai G5271 to pretend
- υπολαμβανω hypolambánō G5274 to welcome
- υποληνιον hypolḗnion G5276 wine pit
- υπομενω hypoménō G5278 to endure
- υπομιμνησκω hypomimnḗskō G5279 to remind
- υπονοεω hyponoéō G5282 to suppose
+15 more words share this root (not shown).
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 41 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word υπνος appears 41 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 41 verses in 15 books.
- 41
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 41
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 15 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 15 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 20:3 ὕπνος
- Numbers 12:6 ὕπνος
- Judges 16:14 ὕπνος
- 1 Samuel 26:7 ὕπνος
- 1 Kings 3:5 ὕπνος
- Esther 6:1 ὕπνος
- Job 14:12 ὕπνος
- Psalms 75:6 ὕπνος
- Proverbs 4:16 ὕπνος
- Ecclesiastes 5:11 ὕπνος
- Isaiah 29:7 ὕπνος
- Jeremiah 28:39 ὕπνος
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G5258) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 20:3 ὕπνος But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the night, and said to him, "Behold, you are a dead man, because of the woman whom you have taken. For she is a man's wife."
- Genesis 20:6 ὕπνος God said to him in the dream, "Yes, I know that in the integrity of your heart you have done this, and I also withheld you from sinning against me. Therefore I didn't allow you to touch her.
- Genesis 28:16 ὕπνος Jacob awakened out of his sleep, and he said, "Surely Yahweh is in this place, and I didn't know it."
- Genesis 31:10 ὕπνος It happened at the time that the flock conceive, that I lifted up my eyes, and saw in a dream, and behold, the male goats which leaped on the flock were streaked, speckled, and grizzled.
- Genesis 31:11 ὕπνος The angel of God said to me in the dream, 'Jacob,' and I said, 'Here I am.'
- Genesis 31:24 ὕπνος God came to Laban, the Syrian, in a dream of the night, and said to him, "Take heed to yourself that you don't speak to Jacob either good or bad."
- Genesis 31:40 ὕπνος Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from my eyes.
- Genesis 40:9 ὕπνος The chief cupbearer told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, "In my dream, behold, a vine was in front of me,
- Genesis 41:17 ὕπνος Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, "In my dream, behold, I stood on the brink of the river:
- Genesis 41:22 ὕπνος I saw in my dream, and, behold, seven heads of grain came up on one stalk, full and good:
- Numbers 12:6 ὕπνος He said, Hear now my words: if there be a prophet among you, I Yahweh will make myself known to him in a vision, I will speak with him in a dream.
- Numbers 24:4 ὕπνος He says, who hears the words of God, Who sees the vision of the Almighty, Falling down, and having his eyes open:
- Numbers 24:16 ὕπνος He says, who hears the words of God, Knows the knowledge of the Most High, Who sees the vision of the Almighty, Falling down, and having his eyes open:
- Judges 16:14 ὕπνος She fastened it with the pin, and said to him, The Philistines are on you, Samson. He awakened out of his sleep, and plucked away the pin of the beam, and the web.
- Judges 16:20 ὕπνος She said, The Philistines are on you, Samson. He awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times, and shake myself free. But he didn't know that Yahweh had departed from him.
- 1 Samuel 26:7 ὕπνος So David and Abishai came to the people by night: and, behold, Saul lay sleeping within the place of the wagons, with his spear stuck in the ground at his head; and Abner and the people lay round about him.
- 1 Kings 3:5 ὕπνος In Gibeon Yahweh appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said, Ask what I shall give you.
- Esther 6:1 ὕπνος On that night the king couldn't sleep; and he commanded to bring the book of records of the chronicles, and they were read before the king.
- Job 14:12 ὕπνος So man lies down and doesn't rise; Until the heavens are no more, they shall not awake, Nor be roused out of their sleep.
- Psalms 75:6 ὕπνος For neither from the east, nor from the west, Nor yet from the south, comes exaltation.
- Psalms 77:65 ὕπνος
- Psalms 126:2 ὕπνος Then our mouth was filled with laughter, And our tongue with singing. Then they said among the nations, "Yahweh has done great things for them."
- Psalms 131:4 ὕπνος
- Proverbs 4:16 ὕπνος For they don't sleep, unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.
- Proverbs 6:4 ὕπνος Give no sleep to your eyes, Nor slumber to your eyelids.
- Proverbs 6:9 ὕπνος How long will you sleep, sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep?
- Proverbs 6:10 ὕπνος A little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to sleep:
- Ecclesiastes 5:11 ὕπνος When goods increase, those who eat them are increased; and what advantage is there to its owner, except to feast on them with his eyes?
- Ecclesiastes 8:16 ὕπνος When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on the earth (for also there is that neither day nor night sees sleep with his eyes),
- Isaiah 29:7 ὕπνος The multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all who fight against her and her stronghold, and who distress her, shall be as a dream, a vision of the night.
- Isaiah 29:8 ὕπνος It shall be as when a hungry man dreams, and, behold, he eats; but he awakes, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreams, and, behold, he drinks; but he awakes, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul has appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against Mount Zion.
- Jeremiah 28:39 ὕπνος
- Jeremiah 38:26 ὕπνος then you shall tell them, I presented my supplication before the king, that he would not cause me to return to Jonathan's house, to die there.
- Daniel 2:1 ὕπνος In the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams; and his spirit was troubled, and his sleep went from him.
- Daniel 4:6 ὕπνος Therefore made I a decree to bring in all the wise men of Babylon before me, that they might make known to me the interpretation of the dream.
- Daniel 4:10 ὕπνος Thus were the visions of my head on my bed: I saw, and, behold, a tree in the midst of the earth; and the height of it was great.
- Daniel 4:26 ὕπνος Whereas they commanded to leave the stump of the roots of the tree; your kingdom shall be sure to you, after that you shall have known that the heavens do rule.
- Daniel 7:2 ὕπνος Daniel spoke and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the sky broke forth on the great sea.
- Daniel 9:21 ὕπνος yes, while I was speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening offering.
- Hosea 7:6 ὕπνος For they have made ready their heart like an oven, While they lie in wait. Their baker sleeps all the night. In the morning it burns as a flaming fire.
- Zechariah 4:1 ὕπνος The angel who talked with me came again, and wakened me, as a man who is wakened out of his sleep.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G5258) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
