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Brown-Driver-Briggs /Thayer Dictionary - ὕπνος
ὕπνος
G5258
Transliteration: hýpnos
Pronunciation: hoop'-nos
Definition: sleep
- Original: ὕπνος - Transliteration: Hupnos - Phonetic: hoop'-nos
- Definition:
1. sleep
- Origin: from an obsolete primary (perhaps akin to G5259" class="dictionary-topic-link">G5259 through the idea of subsilience) - TDNT entry: 17:05,1 - Part(s) of speech: Noun Masculine - Strong's: From an obsolete primary (perhaps akin to G5259" class="dictionary-topic-link">G5259 through the idea of subsilience); sleep that is (figuratively) spiritual torpor: - sleep.