'Sleep' in the Bible

And Jehovah God causeth a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he sleepeth, and He taketh one of his ribs, and closeth up flesh in its stead.

And the sun is about to go in, and deep sleep hath fallen upon Abram, and lo, a terror of great darkness is falling upon him;

And Jacob awaketh out of his sleep, and saith, 'Surely Jehovah is in this place, and I knew not;'

I have been thus: in the day consumed me hath drought, and frost by night, and wander doth my sleep from mine eyes.

And she fixeth it with the pin, and saith unto him, 'Philistines are upon thee, Samson;' and he awaketh out of his sleep, and journeyeth with the pin of the weaving machine, and with the web.

and she maketh him sleep on her knees, and calleth for a man, and shaveth the seven locks of his head, and beginneth to afflict him, and his power turneth aside from off him;

and she saith, 'Philistines are upon thee, Samson;' and he awaketh out of his sleep, and saith, 'I go out as time by time, and shake myself;' and he hath not known that Jehovah hath turned aside from off him.

And David taketh the spear, and the cruse of water at the pillow of Saul, and they go away, and there is none seeing, and there is none knowing, and there is none awaking, for all of them are sleeping, for a deep sleep from Jehovah hath fallen upon them.

On that night hath the sleep of the king fled away, and he saith to bring in the book of memorials of the Chronicles, and they are read before the king,

In thoughts from visions of the night, In the falling of deep sleep on men,

And man hath lain down, and riseth not, Till the wearing out of the heavens they awake not, Nor are roused from their sleep.

In a dream -- a vision of night, In the falling of deep sleep on men, In slumberings on a bed.

I -- I have lain down, and I sleep, I have waked, for Jehovah sustaineth me.

In peace together I lie down and sleep, For Thou, O Jehovah, alone, In confidence dost cause me to dwell!

Look attentively; Answer me, O Jehovah, my God, Enlighten mine eyes, lest I sleep in death,

Stir up -- why dost Thou sleep, O Lord? Awake, cast us not off for ever.

Spoiled themselves have the mighty of heart, They have slept their sleep, And none of the men of might found their hands.

Vain for you who are rising early, Who delay sitting, eating the bread of griefs, So He giveth to His beloved one sleep.

If I give sleep to mine eyes, To mine eyelids -- slumber,

If thou liest down, thou art not afraid, Yea, thou hast lain down, And sweet hath been thy sleep.

For they sleep not if they do not evil, And their sleep hath been taken violently away, If they cause not some to stumble.

Give not sleep to thine eyes, And slumber to thine eyelids,

Till when, O slothful one, dost thou lie? When dost thou arise from thy sleep?

A little sleep, a little slumber, A little clasping of the hands to rest,

Sloth causeth deep sleep to fall, And an indolent soul doth hunger.

Love not sleep, lest thou become poor, Open thine eyes -- be satisfied with bread.

A little sleep -- a little slumber -- A little folding of the hands to lie down.

Sweet is the sleep of the labourer whether he eat little or much; and the sufficiency of the wealthy is not suffering him to sleep.

When I gave my heart to know wisdom and to see the business that hath been done on the earth, (for there is also a spectator in whose eyes sleep is not by day and by night),

There is none weary, nor stumbling in it, It doth not slumber, nor sleep, Nor opened hath been the girdle of its loins, Nor drawn away the latchet of its sandals.

For poured out on you hath Jehovah a spirit of deep sleep, And He closeth your eyes -- the prophets, And your heads -- the seers -- He covered.

On this I have awaked, and I behold, and my sleep hath been sweet to me.

In their heat I make their banquets, And I have caused them to drink, so that they exult, And have slept a sleep age-during, And awake not -- an affirmation of Jehovah.

And I have caused its princes to drink, And its wise men, its governors, And its prefects, and its mighty ones, And they have slept a sleep age-during, And they awake not -- an affirmation of the king, Jehovah of Hosts is His name.

And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, dreamed hath Nebuchadnezzar dreams, and his spirit doth move itself, and his sleep hath been against him;

Then hath the king gone to his palace, and he hath passed the night fasting, and dahavan have not been brought up before him, and his sleep hath fled from off him.

For they have drawn near, As an oven is their heart, In their lying in wait all the night sleep doth their baker, Morning! he is burning as a flaming fire.

And the messenger who is speaking with me doth turn back, and stir me up as one who is stirred up out of his sleep,

And Joseph, having risen from the sleep, did as the messenger of the Lord directed him, and received his wife,

he saith to them, 'Withdraw, for the damsel did not die, but doth sleep,' and they were deriding him;

then cometh he unto his disciples, and saith to them, 'Sleep on henceforth, and rest! lo, the hour hath come nigh, and the Son of Man is delivered up to the hands of sinners.

and may sleep, and may rise night and day, and the seed spring up and grow, he hath not known how;

and having gone in he saith to them, 'Why do ye make a tumult, and weep? the child did not die, but doth sleep;

And he cometh, and findeth them sleeping, and saith to Peter, 'Simon, thou dost sleep! thou wast not able to watch one hour!

And he cometh the third time, and saith to them, 'Sleep on henceforth, and rest -- it is over; the hour did come; lo, the Son of Man is delivered up to the hands of the sinful;

and they were all weeping, and beating themselves for her, and he said, 'Weep not, she did not die, but doth sleep;

but Peter and those with him were heavy with sleep, and having waked, they saw his glory, and the two men standing with him.

and he said to them, 'Why do ye sleep? having risen, pray that ye may not enter into temptation.'

but Jesus had spoken about his death, but they thought that about the repose of sleep he speaketh.

and the jailor having come out of sleep, and having seen the doors of the prison open, having drawn a sword, was about to kill himself, supposing the prisoners to be fled,

and there was sitting a certain youth, by name Eutychus, upon the window -- being borne down by a deep sleep, Paul discoursing long -- he having sunk down from the sleep, fell down from the third story, and was lifted up dead.

according as it hath been written, 'God gave to them a spirit of deep sleep, eyes not to see, and ears not to hear,' -- unto this very day,

And this, knowing the time, that for us, the hour already is to be aroused out of sleep, for now nearer is our salvation than when we did believe;

A wife hath been bound by law as long time as her husband may live, and if her husband may sleep, she is free to be married to whom she will -- only in the Lord;

Because of this, among you many are weak and sickly, and sleep do many;

lo, I tell you a secret; we indeed shall not all sleep, and we all shall be changed;

so, then, we may not sleep as also the others, but watch and be sober,

for those sleeping, by night do sleep, and those making themselves drunk, by night are drunken,

who did die for us, that whether we wake -- whether we sleep -- together with him we may live;