she.nah denotes sleep, whether a person's ordinary rest or a sleep portrayed as ending in no awakening.

The term most often denotes a person's ordinary sleep: it may flee, be sweet, be withheld, or end in awakening. In several clauses, sleep is qualified by the absence of awakening, presenting a permanent, non-waking condition.

1. Ordinary sleep and rest · dominant

   Construct-singular forms occur in clauses about awakening, loss of rest, and the quality of rest. In Genesis 28:16 the APB renders Jacob as awakening “from his sleep”; in Esther 6:1 it renders the king's sleep as having fled; and in Proverbs 3:24 it describes sleep as “sweet.”

   Genesis 28:16Esther 6:1Genesis 31:40Ecclesiastes 8:16Proverbs 3:24Zechariah 4:1
2. Sleep framed as permanent and non-waking · occasional

   In Jeremiah 51:39 and Jeremiah 51:57, the APB renders the clause with an “everlasting” or “perpetual” sleep followed by not waking. Job 14:12 likewise places the construct form in a statement that a man will not awake or be roused from his sleep.

   Jeremiah 51:39Jeremiah 51:57Job 14:12

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the cited verses, the APB commonly presents the term with “sleep,” including phrases such as “from his sleep” and “the king's sleep fled.” In the permanent-sleep clauses it adds qualifiers such as “everlasting” and “perpetual”; These render the verse-level clauses rather than independently defining the term.