רָדַם
ra.dam
“to sleep”
Definition
to stun, i.e. stupefy (with sleep or death)
a primitive root;
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Grammar & Morphology
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Hebrew Verb
Occurrences
רָדַם appears 6 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
I heard the sound of his words, and as I listened, I fell into a deep sleep, with my face to the ground.
While he was speaking with me, I fell into a deep sleep, with my face to the ground.Then he touched me, helped me to my feet,
But as he lay sleeping from exhaustion, Heber’s wife Jael took a tent peg, grabbed a hammer, and went silently to Sisera. She drove the peg through his temple and into the ground, and he died.
The sailors were afraid, and each cried out to his own god. And they threw the ship’s cargo into the sea to lighten the load. But Jonah had gone down to the lowest part of the vessel, where he lay down and fell into a deep sleep.
The captain approached him and said, “How can you sleep? Get up and call upon your God. Perhaps this God will consider us, so that we may not perish.”
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