שֵׁנָה

When Jacob woke up, he said, “Surely the LORD is in this place, and I was unaware of it.”

As it was, the heat consumed me by day and the frost by night, and sleep fled from my eyes.

So while he slept, Delilah took the seven braids of his hair and wove them into the web. Then she tightened it with a pin and called to him, “Samson, the Philistines are here!” But he awoke from his sleep and pulled out the pin with the loom and the web.

Then she called out, “Samson, the Philistines are here!” When Samson awoke from his sleep, he thought, “I will escape as I did before and shake myself free.” But he did not know that the LORD had departed from him.

That night sleep escaped the king; so he ordered the Book of Records, the Chronicles, to be brought in and read to him.

…so a man lies down and does not rise. Until the heavens are no more, he will not be awakened or roused from sleep.

The valiant lie plundered; they sleep their last sleep. No men of might could lift a hand.

You sweep them away in their sleep; they are like the new grass of the morning—

In vain you rise early and stay up late, toiling for bread to eat—for He gives sleep to His beloved.

When you lie down, you will not be afraid; when you rest, your sleep will be sweet.

For they cannot sleep unless they do evil; they are deprived of slumber until they make someone fall.

Allow no sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids.

How long will you lie there, O slacker? When will you get up from your sleep?

A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest,

Do not love sleep, or you will grow poor; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of food.

A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest,

The sleep of the worker is sweet, whether he eats little or much, but the abundance of the rich man permits him no sleep.

When I applied my mind to know wisdom and to observe the task that one performs on the earth—though his eyes do not see sleep in the day or even in the night—

At this I awoke and looked around. My sleep had been most pleasant to me.

While they are flushed with heat, I will serve them a feast, and I will make them drunk so that they may revel; then they will fall asleep forever and never wake up, declares the LORD.

I will make her princes and wise men drunk, along with her governors, officials, and warriors. Then they will fall asleep forever and not wake up,” declares the King, whose name is the LORD of Hosts.

In the second year of his reign, Nebuchadnezzar had dreams that troubled his spirit, and sleep escaped him.

Then the angel who was speaking with me returned and woke me, as a man is awakened from his sleep.