ra.dam describes being asleep or falling into deep sleep, whether in rest, inaction, or collapse to the ground.

The attested use describes a person being asleep or falling into deep sleep: Jonah lies asleep in the ship, Sisera is lying asleep when killed, and Daniel falls face-down in a deep sleep while hearing or being addressed. Proverbs applies the same sleeping state to a son inactive during harvest; the contribution of the form in Psalm 76:7 is not isolated by the APB translation.

1. Being asleep or falling into deep sleep · dominant

   The Niphal forms portray persons in a sleeping state or entering it. In Jonah 1:5 the APB renders Jonah as having lain down and “slept,” while Jonah 1:6 addresses him as “asleep”; in Judges 4:21 Sisera is “lying asleep” when Jael acts. In Daniel 8:18 and Daniel 10:9, the speaker is rendered as in “a deep sleep” with his face to the ground, and Proverbs 10:5 contrasts gathering in summer with a son who “sleeps” during harvest.

   Jonah 1:5Jonah 1:6Judges 4:21Daniel 8:18Daniel 10:9Proverbs 10:5

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the sleep state with “slept,” “asleep,” “lying asleep,” and “a deep sleep” in the cited scenes. In Psalm 76:7, the supplied APB clause does not make the term’s specific contribution identifiable.