2001 Translation

YPNŌ, ypnō

Sounds Like: HYP-noh

Translations: (to) sleep, (to) a sleep, (of) sleep

From the root: ΥΠΝΟΣ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to the state of sleep or slumber. It is often used in a literal sense to describe the act of sleeping, but can also be used metaphorically to refer to a state of spiritual unawareness or even death. In the provided examples, it is used in the dative case to mean 'to sleep' or 'for sleep', and in the genitive case to mean 'of sleep'.

Inflection: Singular, Dative or Genitive, Masculine

Strong’s number: G5258 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Aristeas

• Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:216

Codex Sinaiticus

• Numbers — 24:4, 24:16
• Isaiah — 29:7, 29:8
• Luke — 9:32
• Acts of the Apostles — 20:9

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 5 — 2:148

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book Three — 7:196
• Book Seven — 8:99

Justin Martyr

• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 58:4

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Genesis — 20:3, 31:10, 40:9, 41:17, 41:22
• Numbers — 12:6, 24:4, 24:16
• 1 Samuel — 26:7
• 1 Kings — 3:5
• 3 Maccabees — 5:20
• Wisdom — 7:2
• Isaiah — 29:8
• Daniel (Old Greek) — 4:10, 9:21

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Luke — 9:32
• Acts — 20:9

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
• ΥΠΝΟΥ — of sleep, sleep, a sleep
• ΥΠΝΟΥΣ — sleep, a sleep, dreams
• ΥΠΝΩΝ — of sleep, of sleeps
• ΥΠΝΩΣΙ — to sleep, in sleep, to slumber, in slumber

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