2001 Translation

YPNOU, ypnou

Sounds Like: HYP-noo

Translations: of sleep, sleep, a sleep

From the root: ΥΠΝΟΣ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to the state of natural rest in which consciousness is suspended. It can be used to describe literal sleep, or metaphorically for spiritual apathy or death. In its genitive form, as 'ΥΠΝΟΥ', it often indicates possession or origin, such as 'of sleep' or 'belonging to sleep'.

Inflection: Singular, Genitive, Masculine

Strong’s number: G5258 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 8:15, 10:52

Codex Sinaiticus

• Job — 14:12
• Wisdom — 7:2
• Sirach — 22:9
• Zechariah — 4:1
• Matthew — 1:24
• John — 11:13
• Acts of the Apostles — 20:9
• Romans — 13:11

Josephus' Against Apion

• Book One — 22:176

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 2 — 5:82
• Book 6 — 3:37, 13:314, 13:316
• Book 11 — 8:328
• Book 18 — 3:74

Justin Martyr

• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 58:13

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Genesis — 28:16
• Judges — 16:14, 16:20
• 3 Maccabees — 5:11
• Psalms of Solomon — 6:6, 16:1
• Proverbs — 6:9
• Job — 14:12
• Sirach — 22:7
• Hosea — 7:6
• Zechariah — 4:1

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Matthew — 1:24
• John — 11:13
• Acts — 20:9
• Romans — 13:11

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
• ΥΠΝΟΣ — 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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