Lexicon num: to be drowsy, slumber Original Word: נוּםPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: num Phonetic Spelling: (noom) Short Definition: slumber NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origina prim. root Definitionto be drowsy, slumber NASB Translationsank (1), sleeping (1), slumber (3), slumbers (1).
Brown-Driver-Briggs נוּם verb be drowsy, slumber (Late Hebrew נוּם, נִמְנֵם id.; Aramaic נוּם,  ; Arabic (  )  id.; Ethiopic  ); — Qal Perfect3plural נָמ֫וּ Nahum 3:18; Psalm 76:6 (Ges§ 72 l); Imperfect יָנוּם Psalm 121:3 2t.; 3 feminine singular וַתָּ֫נָם 2 Samuel 4:6 (so read for HCT וַיַּכֻּהו, with other radical changes, ᵐ5 Th We Dr Kit Bu HPS); Infinitive construct לָנוּם Isaiah 56:10. — be drowsy, slumber, literal וַתָּנָם וַתִּישָׁ֑ן 2 Samuel 4:6 (emendation, see above) and she grew drowsy and slept; figurative of inactivity, indolence, Isaiah 5:27 ("" ישׁן), Psalm 121:3; Psalm 121:4 (of ׳י; "" id.); Nahum 3:18 ("" שָׁכֵן); ׳אֹהֲבֵי לָנ Isaiah 56:10 ("" שָׁכַב); followed by accusative of congnate meaning with verb שֵׁנָה Psalm 76:6 (of death, "" נִרְדַּם).
Strong's sleep, slumber A primitive root; to slumber (from drowsiness) -- sleep, slumber. |
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