num describes slumbering or being asleep, whether denied of a watchful keeper or attributed to people and animals.

The attested use describes slumber or sleep. It is negated where alertness is emphasized in Isaiah 5:27 and Psalm 121:3, Psalm 121:4, while other clauses portray watchmen, shepherds, and the chariot and horse as asleep or associated with slumber.

1. Slumbering or being asleep · dominant

   The verb is used for sleeping or a lapse into sleep: in Isaiah 5:27 the negated imperfect stands in the clause the APB renders “none slumbers and none sleeps,” and in Psalm 121:3, Psalm 121:4 the keeper is said not to do so. In Isaiah 56:10 the infinitive construct occurs with watchmen portrayed as lying down and as “lovers of slumber”; in Nahum 3:18 the plural perfect concerns shepherds who have slept, and in Psalm 76:6 the plural perfect occurs in the clause the APB renders “the chariot and the horse were made to sleep.”

   Isaiah 56:10Isaiah 5:27Nahum 3:18Psalm 121:3Psalm 121:4Psalm 76:6

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB variously uses “slumbers,” “slumber,” “slumbered,” and “made to sleep” in these verses. These renderings reflect the surrounding clauses, not a word-for-word alignment to the Hebrew form.