ΥΠΝΩΣΑΣ, υπνωσας
YPNŌSAS, ypnōsas
Sounds Like: hoop-NO-sas
Translations: having fallen asleep, having slept, having slumbered
From the root: ΥΠΝΟΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word is the aorist active participle of the verb 'to sleep' or 'to fall asleep'. It describes an action that has been completed in the past, indicating that someone has already entered a state of sleep or slumber. It can be used to describe a person who has died, as death is often metaphorically referred to as 'sleep' in ancient texts.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Masculine, Aorist Active Participle
Strong’s number: G5258 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Codex Sinaiticus
- Job — 3:13
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 1 — 12:208
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Job — 3:13
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΥΠΝΟΩ.
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.
- ἘΠΙΚΑΘΥΠΝΩΣΩΜΕΝ — we may fall asleep, we may slumber, we may become drowsy
- ΥΠΝΟΥΝΤΑΣ — sleeping, those sleeping, a sleeping one
- ΥΠΝΟΥΝΤΕΣ — sleeping, those sleeping, being asleep
- ΥΠΝΟΩ — to sleep, to be asleep, to fall asleep, to be dead, to die
- ΥΠΝΩΣΑ — I slept, I fell asleep
- ΥΠΝΩΣΑΙ — to sleep, to fall asleep
- ΥΠΝΩΣΑΝ — they slept, they fell asleep
- ΥΠΝΩΣΑΤΕ — sleep, fall asleep, you slept, you fell asleep, you have slept
- ΥΠΝΩΣΕΙ — will sleep, will fall asleep
- ΥΠΝΩΣΕΙΣ — you will sleep, you will slumber
- ΥΠΝΩΣΕΝ — he slept, it slept, she slept
- ΥΠΝΩΣΟΥΣΙΝ — they will sleep, they will slumber
- ΥΠΝΩΣΩ — I will sleep, I will slumber
- ΥΠΝΩΣΩΣΙΝ — sleep, fall asleep, slumber
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