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KING JAMES BIBLE DICTIONARY

 

Slumber

The Bible

Bible Usage:

Dictionaries:

  • Included in Eastons: No
  • Included in Hitchcocks: No
  • Included in Naves: No
  • Included in Smiths: No
  • Included in Websters: Yes
  • Included in Strongs: Yes
  • Included in Thayers: Yes
  • Included in BDB: Yes

Strongs Concordance:

Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Slumber

SLUM'BER, verb intransitive

1. To sleep lightly; to doze. He that keepth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. Psalms 121:4.

2. To sleep. slumber is used as synonymous with sleep, particularly in the poetic and eloquent style.

3. To be in a state of negligence, sloth, supineness or inactivity. Why slumbers Pope?

SLUM'BER, verb transitive

1. To lay to sleep.

2. To stun; to stupefy. [Little used and hardly legitimate.]

SLUM'BER, noun

1. Light sleep; sleep not deep or sound. From carelessness it shall settle into slumber and from slumber it shall settle into a deep and long sleep.

2. Sleep; repose.

Rest to my soul, and slumber to my eyes.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Slumberer

SLUM'BERER, noun One that slumbers.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Slumbering

SLUM'BERING, participle present tense Dozing; sleeping.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Slumbery

SLUM'BEROUS, SLUM'BERY, adjective

1. Inviting or causing sleep; soporiferous. While pensive in the slumberous shade

2. Sleep; not waking.