ya.shen describes someone asleep, whether in ordinary nighttime rest, a comparison, or those who sleep in the dust.

The attested use describes persons as asleep: in nighttime scenes, in a taunt about needing awakening, and in poetic comparisons. The same description is applied to those who “sleep in the dust” in Daniel 12:2, where their awakening is then stated.

1. Being asleep · dominant

   The singular forms describe a person asleep in nighttime or waking contexts: in 1 Kings 3:20 the maidservant is asleep while her child is taken, in 1 Samuel 26:7 Saul lies asleep, and in Song of Songs 5:2 the speaker says, “I sleep, yet my heart is awake.” In 1 Kings 18:27 the APB renders Elijah's taunt with the possibility that the god “is asleep and must be awakened”; Hosea 7:6 similarly says that “all night they sleep,” while Psalm 78:65 compares the Lord's awakening to “one sleeping.” The masculine plural construct form in Daniel 12:2 identifies “those who sleep in the dust of the earth,” who will awake.

   1 Kings 18:271 Kings 3:201 Samuel 26:7Daniel 12:2Hosea 7:6Psalm 78:65

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the verses, the APB presents the term with “asleep,” “slept,” “sleep,” “sleeping,” and “those who sleep.” Because the APB is a whole-verse translation, these variations reflect the surrounding clauses rather than separate lexical meanings.