Lexical Summary hypnos: sleep Original Word: ὕπνοςTransliteration: hypnos Phonetic Spelling: (hoop'-nos) Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Short Definition: sleep Meaning: sleep Strong's Concordance sleep. From an obsolete primary (perhaps akin to hupo through the idea of subsilience); sleep, i.e. (figuratively) spiritual torpor -- sleep. see GREEK hupo Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 5258: ὕπνοςὕπνος, ὕπνου, ὁ (i. e. συπνος, cf. Latinsopnus, somnus; Curtius, § 391), from Homer down, Hebrew שֵׁנָה, sleep: properly, Matthew 1:24; Luke 9:32; John 11:13; Acts 20:9; metaphorically, ἐξ ὕπνου ἐγερθῆναι (see ἐγείρω, 1), Romans 13:11. |
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