deep sleep
tar.de.mah denotes sleep falling on people, including God-associated incapacitation and ordinary nighttime repose.
The word most often marks a sleep associated in the clauses with God's action or with a divinely described condition, leaving people unawake or unable to perceive; it also occurs for sleep during nighttime visions and for sleep brought on by sluggishness.
Senses in use
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God-associated sleep or impaired perception · dominant
In Genesis 2:21, the absolute noun occurs where the APB renders that the LORD God caused sleep to fall on the man before taking one of his sides. Genesis 15:12 places it upon Abram with terror and darkness, while 1 Samuel 26:12 says that no one awoke because sleep from the LORD had fallen on them; Isaiah 29:10 connects a spirit of sleep with shut eyes and covered heads.
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Sleep during the night · common
In Job 33:15, the absolute noun occurs as sleep falls on people lying on their beds amid a dream and a night vision. Job 4:13 likewise places it amid disquietings from night visions when sleep falls on people.
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Sleep resulting from sluggishness · rare
In Proverbs 19:15, the absolute noun is the sleep that the APB says sluggishness brings, followed by the consequence that an idle soul suffers hunger.
In the Anselm Project Bible: Across all seven verses, the APB presents the term with “deep sleep,” whether it falls on people at night, accompanies divine action, or follows sluggishness. This repeated English wording reflects the translation’s presentation of the clauses.