ΥΠΝΟΣ, υπνος
YPNOS, ypnos
Sounds Like: HOOP-nos
Translations: sleep, a sleep
From the root: ΥΠΝΟΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to the state of sleep or slumber. It can be used generally to describe the act of sleeping or a period of rest. In some contexts, it can metaphorically refer to spiritual apathy or even death.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Masculine
Strong’s number: G5258 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Alexandria
- To the Newly Baptized — 1:3
Codex Sinaiticus
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 6 — 13:315
Josephus' The Jewish War
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Genesis — 31:40
- 1 Maccabees — 6:10
- Psalms of Solomon — 4:17, 4:18
- Proverbs — 4:16
- Ecclesiastes — 5:11
- Sirach — 34:20, 40:5
- Jeremiah — 38:26
- Daniel (Theodotion) — 2:1, 6:18
- Daniel (Old Greek) — 2:1, 4:14, 4:30
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΥΠΝΟΣ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΑΝΥΠΝΙΑΖΕΣΘΑΙ — to be sleepless, to be awake, to be without sleep
- ΟΥΠΝΟΥ — of sleep, a sleep
- ΥΠΝΟΝ — sleep, a sleep
- ΥΠΝΟΥ — of sleep, sleep, a sleep
- ΥΠΝΟΥΣ — sleep, a sleep, dreams
- ΥΠΝΩ — (to) sleep, (to) a sleep, (of) sleep
- ΥΠΝΩΝ — of sleep, of sleeps
- ΥΠΝΩΣΙ — to sleep, in sleep, to slumber, in slumber
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