יָשֵׁן yâshên — properly, to be slack or languid, i.e. (by implication) sleep (figuratively, to die)
Translated in the KJV as old, remain long, sleep.
a primitive root; properly, to be slack or languid, i.e. (by implication) sleep (figuratively, to die); also to grow old, stale or inveterate.
yâshên in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Imperfect (yiqtol) 6Wayyiqtol 4Sequential perfect (weqatal) 3Perfect (qatal) 1Infinitive construct 1
And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;
And he slept and dreamed the second time: and, behold, seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good.
And as he lay and slept under a juniper tree, behold, then an angel touched him, and said unto him, Arise and eat.
Niph'al
Participle (active) 1Participle (passive) 1Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1
It is an old leprosy in the skin of his flesh, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean, and shall not shut him up: for he is unclean.
And ye shall eat old store, and bring forth the old because of the new.
When thou shalt beget children, and children’s children, and ye shall have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, and shall do evil in the sight of the Lord thy God, to provoke him to anger:
Pi'el
Wayyiqtol 1
And she made him sleep upon her knees; and she called for a man, and she caused him to shave off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›