Definition
a primitive root; to stun, i.e. stupefy (with sleep or death)
Traditional renderings: (be fast a-, be in a deep, cast into a dead, that) sleep(-er, -eth).
Traditional renderings: (be fast a-, be in a deep, cast into a dead, that) sleep(-er, -eth).
In the Greek Old Testament
How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders רָדַם:
- νυστάζωnustazō“to doze”always
Usage patterns
Occurrences
7 total
- Judges 4:21נִרְדָּ֥ם · lay sleepingBut as he lay sleeping from exhaustion, Heber’s wife Jael took a tent peg, grabbed a hammer, and went silently to Sisera. She drove the peg through his temple and into the ground, and he died.
- Psalm 76:6נִ֝רְדָּ֗ם · lie stunnedAt Your rebuke, O God of Jacob, both horse and rider lie stunned.
- Proverbs 10:5נִרְדָּ֥ם · [but] he who sleepsHe who gathers in summer is a wise son, but he who sleeps during harvest is a disgraceful son.
- Daniel 8:18נִרְדַּ֥מְתִּי · I fell into a deep sleepWhile he was speaking with me, I fell into a deep sleep, with my face to the ground. Then he touched me, helped me to my feet,
- Daniel 10:9נִרְדָּ֥ם · fell into a deep sleepI heard the sound of his words, and as I listened, I fell into a deep sleep, with my face to the ground.
- Jonah 1:5וַיֵּרָדַֽם׃ · and fell into a deep sleepThe sailors were afraid, and each cried out to his own god. And they threw the ship’s cargo into the sea to lighten the load. But Jonah had gone down to the lowest part of the vessel, where he lay down and fell into a deep sleep.
- Jonah 1:6נִרְדָּ֑ם · sleepThe captain approached him and said, “How can you sleep? Get up and call upon your God. Perhaps this God will consider us, so that we may not perish.”