- Original: ישׁן - Transliteration: Yashen - Phonetic: yaw-shane' - Definition: 1. to sleep, be asleep a. (Qal) to sleep, go to sleep, be asleep b. (Niphal) 1. to remain a long time, be stored up 2. to be festering (of leprosy) c. (Piel) to cause to sleep, entice to sleep - Origin: a primitive root - TWOT entry: 928 - Part(s) of speech: Verb - Strong's: A primitive root; properly to be slack or languid that is (by implication) sleep (figuratively to die); also to grow old stale or inveterate: - old (store) remain long (make to) sleep. Total KJV Occurrences: 19 • long, 1 Deuteronomy 4:25 • old, 1 Leviticus 13:11 • sleep, 10 Judges 16:19; Psalm 4:8; Psalm 13:3; Psalm 121:4; Proverbs 4:16; Ecclesiastes 5:12; Isaiah 5:27; Jeremiah 51:39; Jeremiah 51:57; Ezekiel 34:25 • sleepest, 1 Psalm 44:23 • slept, 5 Genesis 2:21; Genesis 41:5; 1 Kings 19:5; Job 3:13; Psalm 3:5 • store, 1 Leviticus 26:10