noun · masculine
hupnos
Strong’sG5258
sleep
stem hupn-6 times in the New Testamentin 5 of 27 books2 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
ὕπνος, -ου, ὁ
[in LXX for שֵׁנָה, חֲלוֹם, etc.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5258 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidhoop'-nos
sleep, i.e. (figuratively) spiritual torpor
Fromfrom an obsolete primary (perhaps akin to G5259 through the idea of subsilience);
King Jamessleep.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
sleep, slumber, Refs 8th c.BC+; of the sleep of death, κοιμήσατο χάλκεον ὕ. Refs 8th c.BC+ — Special phrases:
I of going to sleep, μιν ἐπήλυθε.. ὕ. Refs 8th c.BC+; ἐν ὕπνῳ or ὕπνῳ πεσεῖν to fall a-sleep, Refs 5th c.BC+; οὐχ ὕπνῳ γ᾽ ἐνδόντα (so Badham for εὕδοντά) μ᾽ ἐξεγείρετε Refs; also ὕπνῳ δεδμημένος, δαμείς, Refs 8th c.BC+; νικώμενος, κρατηθεῖσ᾽, Refs 5th c.BC+
I.2 of waking from sleep, ἐγεῖραί τινα ἐξ ὕπνου Refs 8th c.BC+: of the sleeper, ἀνόρουσε, ἔγρετο, ἐξ ὕ. Refs 8th c.BC+
I.3 with Preps., when the plural also is not uncommon, ἐν ὕπνῳ in sleep, in a dream, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐν τοῖς ὕ.Refs 5th c.BC+; καθ᾽ ὕπνον ὄντα Refs 5th c.BC+; καθ᾽ ὕπνον, κατὰ τοὺς ὕπνους, Refs 1st c.AD+; περὶ πρῶτον ὕ. about one's first sleep, Refs 5th c.BC+: plural, dreams, ὕ. ἀγένητοι Refs 1st c.BC+
II Sleep, as a god, twinbrother of Death, Refs 8th c.BC+, son of Night without father. [ῠ by nature, Refs 4th c.BC+; ῡ by position in Epic dialect, etc.] (Cf. Sanskrit svápati 'sleep', substantive svápnas 'sleep, dream'; Latin somnus, sopor, etc.)
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | hupnos | hupnois |
| object accusative | hupnon | hupnoin |
| direct address vocative | hupnor | hupnoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | hupnou4×ὕπνου | hupnoiu |
| to, for dative | hupno2×ὕπνῳ | hupnoi |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
hupno is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
6 occurrences, every one of them listed
hupnou“sleep”of, belonging togenitive singular4×
Matthew 1:24“sleep”egerirantos de tos Iōsēf apo tou hupnou poiata hōs prostassata auto tos angelos …When Joseph woke up, he did as the angel of the Lord had commanded him and embraced …
John 11:13… dokala hoti peri tau koimēsiau tou hupnou legatō.… that Jesus was talking about actual sleep, but He was speaking about the …
Acts 20:9“sleep”… Paulou epi polloterem, kataferirantos apo tou hupnou piptata apo teu tristegeu katō kai …… sleep as Paul talked on and on. When he was sound asleep, he fell from the third story and was picked …
Romans 13:11“sleep”… kairon, hoti hōras ēdē vin ek hupnou egerira, nun gar enguteron nu tas …… occasion. The hour has come for you to wake up from your slumber, for our salvation is nearer now than when …
hupno“sleep”to, fordative singular2×
Luke 9:32… kai tois sun auto ale barorēntois hupno; diagrēgorarantois de horala tan doxan autou …… and his companions were overcome by sleep, but when they awoke, they saw …
Acts 20:9… onome Eutuchos epi tau thuridau, kataferorōntos hupno bathuo dialegorōntou tou Paulou epi polloterem, …… window, was sinking into a deep sleep as Paul talked on and on …