Concordance

“Sleep” in the Bible

124 verses contain “sleep” (including word forms) in the Berean Standard Bible.

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Genesis 2:21 So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep, and while he slept, He took one of the man’s ribs and closed up the area with flesh.
Genesis 15:12 As the sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and suddenly great terror and darkness overwhelmed him.
Genesis 16:4 And he slept with Hagar, and she conceived. But when Hagar realized that she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress.
Genesis 19:8 Look, I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. Let me bring them to you, and you can do to them as you please. But do not do anything to these men, for they…
Genesis 19:31 One day the older daughter said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man in the land to sleep with us, as is the custom over all the earth.
Genesis 19:32 Come, let us get our father drunk with wine so we can sleep with him and preserve his line.”
Genesis 19:33 So that night they got their father drunk with wine, and the firstborn went in and slept with her father; he was not aware when she lay down or when she got up.
Genesis 19:34 …e next day the older daughter said to the younger, “Look, I slept with my father last night. Let us get him drunk with wine again tonight so you can go in and sleep with…
Genesis 19:35 So again that night they got their father drunk with wine, and the younger daughter went in and slept with him; he was not aware when she lay down or when she got up.
Genesis 26:10 “What is this you have done to us?” asked Abimelech. “One of the people could easily have slept with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us.”
Genesis 28:11 …s from that place, he put it under his head and lay down to…
Genesis 29:21 Finally Jacob said to Laban, “Grant me my wife, for my time is complete, and I want to sleep with her.”
Genesis 29:23 But when evening came, Laban took his daughter Leah and gave her to Jacob, and he slept with her.
Genesis 29:30 Jacob slept with Rachel as well, and indeed, he loved Rachel more than Leah. So he worked for Laban another seven years.
Genesis 30:3 Then she said, “Here is my maidservant Bilhah. Sleep with her, that she may bear children for me, so that through her I too can build a family.”
Genesis 30:4 So Rachel gave Jacob her servant Bilhah as a wife, and he slept with her,
Genesis 30:15 …son’s mandrakes as well?” “Very well,” said Rachel, “he may sleep with you tonight in exchange for your son’s…
Genesis 30:16 …th me, for I have hired you with my son’s mandrakes.” So he slept with her that…
Genesis 31:40 As it was, the heat consumed me by day and the frost by night, and sleep fled from my eyes.
Genesis 35:22 While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his father’s concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard about it. Jacob had twelve sons:
Genesis 38:2 There Judah saw the daughter of a Canaanite man named Shua, and he took her as a wife and slept with her.
Genesis 38:8 Then Judah said to Onan, “Sleep with your brother’s wife. Perform your duty as her brother-in-law and raise up offspring for your brother.”
Genesis 38:9 …the offspring would not belong to him; so whenever he would sleep with his brother’s wife, he would spill his seed on the ground so that he would not produce offspring…
Genesis 38:16 …ter-in-law, he went over to her and said, “Come now, let me sleep with you.” “What will you give me for sleeping with you?” she…
Genesis 38:18 …rd, and the staff in your hand.” So he gave them to her and slept with her, and she became pregnant by…
Genesis 39:7 and after some time his master’s wife cast her eyes upon Joseph and said, “Sleep with me.”
Genesis 39:12 She grabbed Joseph by his cloak and said, “Sleep with me!” But leaving his cloak in her hand, he escaped and ran outside.
Genesis 39:14 …rought to us to make sport of us. He came to me so he could sleep with me, but I screamed as loud as I…
Exodus 22:16 If a man seduces a virgin who is not pledged in marriage and sleeps with her, he must pay the full dowry for her to be his wife.
Exodus 22:27 because his cloak is the only covering he has for his body. What else will he sleep in? And if he cries out to Me, I will hear, for I am compassionate.
Leviticus 14:47 And anyone who sleeps in the house or eats in it must wash his clothes.
Numbers 5:13 by sleeping with another man, and it is concealed from her husband and her impurity is undetected (since there is no witness against her and she was not caught in the…
Numbers 5:19 …t the woman under oath and say to her, ‘If no other man has slept with you and you have not gone astray and become defiled while under your husband’s authority, may you…
Numbers 31:35 and 32,000 women who had not slept with a man.
Deuteronomy 22:22 If a man is found lying with another man’s wife, both the man who slept with her and the woman must die. You must purge the evil from Israel.
Deuteronomy 22:23 If there is a virgin pledged in marriage to a man, and another man encounters her in the city and sleeps with her,
Deuteronomy 24:12 If he is a poor man, you must not go to sleep with the security in your possession;
Deuteronomy 24:13 be sure to return it to him by sunset, so that he may sleep in his own cloak and bless you, and this will be credited to you as righteousness before the LORD your God.
Deuteronomy 27:20 ‘Cursed is he who sleeps with his father’s wife, for he has violated his father’s marriage bed.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
Deuteronomy 27:22 ‘Cursed is he who sleeps with his sister, the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
Deuteronomy 27:23 ‘Cursed is he who sleeps with his mother-in-law.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
Judges 4:21 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…
Judges 16:14 So while he slept, Delilah took the seven braids of his hair and wove them into the web.Then she tightened it with a pin and called to him, “Samson, the Philistines are…
Judges 16:19 And having lulled him to sleep on her lap, she called a man to shave off the seven braids of his head. In this way she began to subdue him, and his strength left him.
Judges 16:20 …mson, the Philistines are here!” When Samson awoke from his sleep, he thought, “I will escape as I did before and shake myself free.” But he did not know that the LORD…
1 Samuel 2:22 …rything his sons were doing to all Israel and how they were sleeping with the women who served at the entrance to the Tent of…
1 Samuel 26:12 …id anyone wake up; they all remained asleep, because a deep sleep from the LORD had fallen on…
2 Samuel 3:7 Meanwhile, Saul had a concubine named Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah. So Ish-bosheth questioned Abner, “Why did you sleep with my father’s concubine?”
2 Samuel 11:4 Then David sent messengers to get her, and when she came to him, he slept with her. (Now she had just purified herself from her uncleanness.) Then she returned home.
2 Samuel 11:9 But Uriah slept at the door of the palace with all his master’s servants; he did not go down to his house.
2 Samuel 11:11 …e open field. How can I go to my house to eat and drink and sleep with my wife? As surely as you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do such a…
2 Samuel 12:3 …his children. It shared his food and drank from his cup; it slept in his arms and was like a daughter to…
2 Samuel 16:21 Ahithophel replied, “Sleep with your father’s concubines, whom he has left to keep the palace. When all Israel hears that you have become a stench to your father, then…
2 Samuel 16:22 So they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof, and he slept with his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel.
2 Samuel 20:3 …a house under guard. He provided for them, but he no longer slept with them. They were confined until the day of their death, living as…
1 Kings 18:27 …eep in thought, or occupied, or on a journey. Perhaps he is sleeping and must be…
1 Chronicles 2:21 Later, Hezron slept with the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead. He had married her when he was sixty years old, and she bore to him Segub.
1 Chronicles 7:23 And again he slept with his wife, and she conceived and gave birth to a son. So he named him Beriah, because tragedy had come upon his house.
Esther 6:1 That night sleep escaped the king; so he ordered the Book of Records, the Chronicles, to be brought in and read to him.
Job 4:13 In disquieting visions in the night, when deep sleep falls on men,
Job 14:12 so a man lies down and does not rise. Until the heavens are no more, he will not be awakened or roused from sleep.
Job 31:10 then may my own wife grind grain for another, and may other men sleep with her.
Job 33:15 In a dream, in a vision in the night, when deep sleep falls upon men as they slumber on their beds,
Psalms 3:5 I lie down and sleep; I wake again, for the LORD sustains me.
Psalms 4:8 I will lie down and sleep in peace, for You alone, O LORD, make me dwell in safety.
Psalms 13:3 Consider me and respond, O LORD my God. Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death,
Psalms 44:23 Wake up, O Lord! Why are You sleeping? Arise! Do not reject us forever.
Psalms 76:5 The valiant lie plundered; they sleep their last sleep. No men of might could lift a hand.
Psalms 78:65 Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, like a mighty warrior overcome by wine.
Psalms 90:5 You whisk them away in their sleep; they are like the new grass of the morning—
Psalms 121:4 Behold, the Protector of Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.
Psalms 127:2 In vain you rise early and stay up late, toiling for bread to eat— for He gives sleep to His beloved.
Psalms 132:4 I will not give sleep to my eyes or slumber to my eyelids,
Proverbs 3:24 When you lie down, you will not be afraid; when you rest, your sleep will be sweet.
Proverbs 4:16 For they cannot sleep unless they do evil; they are deprived of slumber until they make someone fall.
Proverbs 6:4 Allow no sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids.
Proverbs 6:9 How long will you lie there, O slacker? When will you get up from your sleep?
Proverbs 6:10 A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest,
Proverbs 6:29 So is he who sleeps with another man’s wife; no one who touches her will go unpunished.
Proverbs 10:5 He who gathers in summer is a wise son, but he who sleeps during harvest is a disgraceful son.
Proverbs 19:15 Laziness brings on deep sleep, and an idle soul will suffer hunger.
Proverbs 20:13 Do not love sleep, or you will grow poor; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of food.
Proverbs 23:34 You will be like one sleeping on the high seas or lying on the top of a mast:
Proverbs 24:33 A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest,
Ecclesiastes 5:12 The sleep of the worker is sweet, whether he eats little or much, but the abundance of the rich man permits him no sleep.
Ecclesiastes 8:16 When I applied my mind to know wisdom and to observe the task that one performs on the earth—though his eyes do not see sleep in the day or even in the night—
Song of Solomon 5:2 I sleep, but my heart is awake. A sound! My beloved is knocking: “Open to me, my sister, my darling, my dove, my flawless one. My head is drenched with dew, my hair with…
Isaiah 5:27 None of them grows weary or stumbles; no one slumbers or sleeps. No belt is loose and no sandal strap is broken.
Isaiah 29:10 For the LORD has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep. He has shut your eyes, O prophets; He has covered your heads, O seers.
Jeremiah 31:26 At this I awoke and looked around. My sleep had been most pleasant to me.
Ezekiel 23:8 She did not give up the prostitution she began in Egypt, when men slept with her in her youth, caressed her virgin bosom, and poured out their lust upon her.
Ezekiel 23:44 And they slept with her as with a prostitute; they slept with Oholah and Oholibah, those lewd women.
Ezekiel 34:25 I will make with them a covenant of peace and rid the land of wild animals, so that they may dwell securely in the wilderness and sleep in the forest.
Daniel 2:1 In the second year of his reign, Nebuchadnezzar had dreams that troubled his spirit, and sleep escaped him.
Daniel 6:18 Then the king went to his palace and spent the night fasting. No entertainment was brought before him, and sleep fled from him.
Daniel 8:18 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,
Daniel 10:9 I heard the sound of his words, and as I listened, I fell into a deep sleep, with my face to the ground.
Daniel 12:2 And many who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, but others to shame and everlasting contempt.
Jonah 1:5 … part of the vessel, where he lay down and fell into a deep…
Jonah 1:6 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.”
Nahum 3:18 O king of Assyria, your shepherds slumber; your officers sleep. Your people are scattered on the mountains with no one to gather them.
Zechariah 4:1 Then the angel who was speaking with me returned and woke me, as a man is awakened from his sleep.
Matthew 8:24 Suddenly a violent storm came up on the sea, so that the boat was engulfed by the waves; but Jesus was sleeping.
Matthew 26:40 Then Jesus returned to the disciples and found them sleeping. “Were you not able to keep watch with Me for one hour?” He asked Peter.
Matthew 26:43 And again Jesus returned and found them sleeping—for their eyes were heavy.
Matthew 26:45 Then He returned to the disciples and said, “Are you still sleeping and resting? Look, the hour is near, and the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.
Mark 4:27 Night and day he sleeps and wakes, and the seed sprouts and grows, though he knows not how.
Mark 4:38 But Jesus was in the stern, sleeping on the cushion. So they woke Him and said, “Teacher, don’t You care that we are perishing?”
Mark 13:36 Otherwise, he may arrive without notice and find you sleeping.
Mark 14:37 Then Jesus returned and found them sleeping. “Simon, are you asleep?” He asked. “Were you not able to keep watch for one hour?
Mark 14:40 And again Jesus returned and found them sleeping—for their eyes were heavy. And they did not know what to answer Him.
Mark 14:41 When Jesus returned the third time, He said, “Are you still sleeping and resting? That is enough! The hour has come. Look, the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of…
Luke 9:32 Meanwhile Peter and his companions were overcome by sleep, but when they awoke, they saw Jesus’ glory and the two men standing with Him.
Luke 22:46 “Why are you sleeping?” He asked. “Get up and pray so that you will not enter into temptation.”
John 11:12 His disciples replied, “Lord, if he is sleeping, he will get better.”
John 11:13 They thought that Jesus was talking about actual sleep, but He was speaking about the death of Lazarus.
Acts 12:6 …the night before Herod was to bring him to trial, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, with sentries standing guard at the entrance to the…
Acts 20:9 …med Eutychus, seated in the window, was sinking into a deep sleep as Paul talked on and on. When he was sound asleep, he fell from the third story and was picked up…
1 Corinthians 15:51 Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed—
2 Corinthians 11:27 in labor and toil and often without sleep, in hunger and thirst and often without food, in cold and exposure.
1 Thessalonians 4:13 Brothers, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you will not grieve like the rest, who are without hope.
1 Thessalonians 5:6 So then, let us not sleep as the others do, but let us remain awake and sober.
1 Thessalonians 5:7 For those who sleep, sleep at night; and those who get drunk, get drunk at night.
2 Peter 2:3 In their greed, these false teachers will exploit you with deceptive words. The longstanding verdict against them remains in force, and their destruction does not sleep.