sleep
part of speech
verb, noun (sleep, sleeps, slept, sleeping)
meaning for a pupil
1) To sleep is to rest with your eyes closed and your mind switched off, as you do at night. tree →
2) Sleep is the state of sleeping, or how much rest you get. tree →
3) A sleepover is when a friend stays the night. tree →
4) «Go to sleep» means start sleeping; «put to sleep» can mean to give an animal a gentle death. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In the Tanakh sleep is rest, but it is also a picture for being careless or lazy, as when Proverbs asks the sluggard "how long wilt thou sleep?" In Psalms people call on God to "awake" as if He were sleeping when He seems not to help. Interpretation: The tradition teaches that God never sleeps, so the psalmist's cry is read as the people's feeling that God is hidden, not as a fact. Proverbs is read as a warning against laziness. In the primary lessons: Maths: hours of sleep, often added over nights or compared; times from bedtime to waking. Health: children need about 9 to 12 hours of sleep. Science: animals that sleep through winter hibernate. Everyday: fall asleep, sleep in, sleepy, sleeping bag, «sleep on it» (think about it overnight).
examples
- And if he be a poor man, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge; (Torah DEU.24.12, JPS 1917) tree →
- And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said: 'Surely the LORD is in this place; and I knew it not.' (Torah GEN.28.16, JPS 1917) tree →
- Thus I was: in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from mine eyes. (Torah GEN.31.40, JPS 1917) tree →
- Awake, why sleepest Thou, O Lord? (Writings PSA.44.24, JPS 1917) tree →
- How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? (Writings PRO.6.9, JPS 1917) tree →
- When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? (Writings PRO.6.9, JPS 1917) tree →
- She sleeps 9 hours a night. tree →
- He slept from 9 pm to 7 am. tree →
- How many hours does he sleep in a week? tree →
- The baby sleeps 3 hours more than her brother. tree →
- Turn off your screen an hour before you go to sleep. tree →
- Bears sleep through the cold winter. tree →
- We slept in sleeping bags in the tent. tree →
- My leg has gone to sleep! tree →
- The old man went to sleep. tree →
note
Irregular: sleep, slept, slept. Hours a night × nights = total; times from bedtime to waking need counting across midnight. Trap: going from pm to am crosses midnight (9 pm to 7 am is 10 hours). Asleep (adjective) vs sleep (verb).
In the corpora
- And if he be a poor man, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge;
- And David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.
- And Baasa slept with his fathers, and was buried in Tirzah; and Elah his son reigned in his stead.
- And Omri slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria; and Ahab his son reigned in his stead.
- So Ahab slept with his fathers; and Ahaziah his son reigned in his stead.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «sleep» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.