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Strong's #3464 - יָשֵׁן

Transliteration
Yâshên
Phonetics
yaw-shane'
Origin
the same as (H3463)
Parts of Speech
proper masculine noun
TWOT
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Definition   
Brown-Driver-Briggs' Definition

  1. Jashen = "sleeping"
    1. the father of one or more of David´s mighty warriors

Frequency Lists
Verse Results
ASV (1)
2 Samuel 1
BSB (1)
2 Samuel 1
CSB (1)
2 Samuel 1
ESV (1)
2 Samuel 1
KJV (1)
2 Samuel 1
LEB (1)
2 Samuel 1
LSB (1)
2 Samuel 1
N95 (1)
2 Samuel 1
NAS (1)
2 Samuel 1
NLT (0)
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did not use
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WEB (1)
2 Samuel 1
Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition
 II. יָשֵׁן proper name, masculine one of David's heroes, 2Samuel = הָשֵׁם 1 Chronicles 11:34 (in both strike out בְּנֵי as dittograph, We Dr Bu); see הָשֵׁם, and גוּנִי.


Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.All rights reserved. Used by permission. BibleSoft.com
Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

יָשֵׁן fut. יִישַׁן, inf. יְשׁוֹן Ecclesiastes 5:11, pr. to be languid, weary (fchlaff, müde fehn), hence

(1) of persons, to fall asleep, Genesis 2:21, 41:5 Ps. 4:9 to sleep, to be sleeping, Isaiah 5:27; 1 Kings 19:5. (Arab. وَسِنَ to begin to sleep, to slumber, [fchlummern; سِنَةُ the beginning of sleep. As to sleep itself, they commonly use the verb ذام, which on the contrary is used in Hebrew of slumbering, see נוּם ). Persons are said, poetically, to sleep who are

(a) idle, doing nothing, whence ἀνθρωπομόρφως, Psalms 44:24, “why sleepest thou, O Jehovah?” Psalms 78:65.

(b) dead. Job 3:13 concerning whom the idea is more fully expressed with an accus. following, יָשֵׁן שְׁנַת עוֹלָם Jeremiah 51:39, 57 Jeremiah 51:57, and יָשֵׁן מָוֶת Psalms 13:4.

(2) used of inanimate things, to be flaccid, dried, hence to be old (opp. to fresh or new), compare נָבַל, נְבֵלָה. So adj. יָשָׁן, and

Niphal נוֹשַׁן

(1) to be dry, used of old [last year’s] corn, opp. to what is fresh. Leviticus 26:10.

(2) to be old, inveterate, of leprosy, Leviticus 13:11 of a person who has long dwelt in any country, Deuteronomy 4:25.

Piel, causat. of Kal No. 1, to cause to sleep, Judges 16:19.

Derivatives, שֵׁנָה, שְׁנָת and those which follow immediately.


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List of Word Forms
יָשֵׁ֖ן ישן yā·šên yāšên yaShen
 
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