Lexical Summary num: to be drowsy, slumber Original Word: נוּםTransliteration: num Phonetic Spelling: (noom) Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to be drowsy, slumber Meaning: to be drowsy, slumber Strong's Concordance sleep, slumber A primitive root; to slumber (from drowsiness) -- sleep, slumber. Brown-Driver-Briggs H5123. num נוּם verb be drowsy, slumber (Late Hebrew נִמְנֵם נוּם, id.; Aramaic נוּם, ; Arabic () id.; Ethiopic ); — Qal Perfect3plural נָמ֫וּ Nahum 3:18; Psalm 76:6 (Ges§ 72 l); Imperfect יָנוּם 121:3 2t.; 3 feminine singular וַתָּ֫נָם 2 Samuel 4:6 (so read for HCT וַיַּכֻּהו, with other radical changes, ᵐ5 Th We Dr Kit Bu HPS); Infinitive construct לָנוּם Isaiah 56:10. — be drowsy, slumber, literal וַתִּישָׁ֑ן וַתָּנָם 2 Samuel 4:6 (emendation, see above) and she grew drowsy and slept; figurative of inactivity, indolence, Isaiah 5:27 ("" ישׁן), Psalm 121:3; 121:4 (of ׳י; "" id.); Nahum 3:18 ("" שָׁכֵן); לָנ ׳אֹהֲבֵי Isaiah 56:10 ("" שָׁכַב); followed by accusative of congnate meaning with verb שֵׁנָה Psalm 76:6 (of death, "" נִרְדַּם). |
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