תַּרְדֵּמָה
deep sleep
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute 6 times (86%)
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct 1 time (14%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 7 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H8639 appears — 7 distinct verses across 5 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew 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 Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Genesis 2 verses
- Genesis 2:21 תַּרְדֵּמָ֛ה n c fs Yahweh God caused a deep sleep to fall on the man, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place.
- Genesis 15:12 וְ/תַרְדֵּמָ֖ה conj + n c fs When the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. Now terror and great darkness fell on him.
1 Samuel 1 verse
Job 2 verses
Proverbs 1 verse
Isaiah 1 verse
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.
תרדמה (tardêmâh) is a Hebrew noun most often rendered “deep sleep.” Debuting at Genesis 2:21, it then recurs through the corpus. The Hebrew Bible uses it across 7 verses — uncommon. Genesis dominates its distribution — 2 of 7 verses. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H8639 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 7
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 7 distinct verses.
- 5 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 5 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,835
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,835 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 7 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 7 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 3 verses · 43%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 2 verses · 29%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 2 verses · 29%
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: Deep sleep 6×
- American Standard Version: Deep sleep 6×
- Berean Standard Bible: Deep sleep 7×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Deep sleep 6×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H8639 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H8639 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H8639 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H8639 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB 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.
- deep sleep, trance
Word origin
n.f. deep sleep;—abs. ת׳ Gn 2:21 +; cstr. תַּרְדֵּמַת 1 S 26:12;—deep sleep, usually c. נָפַל + עַל pers., and usually by supernat. agency: וַיַּפֵּל י׳ א׳ ת׳ עַל Gn 2:21 (J; 𝔊 ἔκστασις), ת׳ נָֽפְלָה עַל 15:12 (J; 𝔊 id.), Jb 4:13 = 33:15 (𝔊 [δεινὸς] φόβος), so תַּרְדֵּמַת י׳ 1 S 26:12 (𝔊 θάμβος), result of slothfulness (על and pers. om.) Pr 19:15; fig. for insensibility of spirit, נָסַךְ עֲלֵיכֶם י׳ רוּחַ ת׳ Is 29:10.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from רדם (râdam) (H7290) — to sleep.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
תַּרְדֵּמָה
- torpor, trance. Pirké d’R. El. ch. XXVIII שנת ת׳ a trance-like sleep. Gen. R. s. 17, a. e. תַּרְדֵּמַת שינה the torpor of sleep; ת׳ נבואה the trance of prophecy; ת׳ מרמיטה, v. מרמיטה. Ib. ת׳ שטות the torpor of madness.—Pl. תַּרְדֵּמוֹת. Ib. שלש ת׳ הן there are three kinds of torpor.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 7 distinct written forms H8639 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| וְ/תַרְדֵּמָ֖ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Genesis 15:12 | 1 |
| תַּ֝רְדֵּמָ֗ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Job 4:13 | 1 |
| תַּ֭רְדֵּמָה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Job 33:15 | 1 |
| תַּרְדֵּמַ֣ת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | 1 Samuel 26:12 | 1 |
| תַּרְדֵּמָ֑ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Proverbs 19:15 | 1 |
| תַּרְדֵּמָ֔ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Isaiah 29:10 | 1 |
| תַּרְדֵּמָ֛ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Genesis 2:21 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 7 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 7 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
