Sleep, Deep
Sleep, Deep
(, tardemah, verb , radham, from a root meaning to be deaf): The verb radham has no further meaning than to be fast asleep (Jdg 4:21; Jon 1:5), but the King James Version used deep sleep as a translation only in Dan 8:18; Dan 10:9, where a sleep supernaturally caused (a trance) is meant compare dead sleep in Psa 76:6). The Revised Version’s insertion of deep sleep in place of The King James Version’s fast asleep in Jdg 4:21 is consequently unfortunate. The noun tardemah has the same meaning of trance in Gen 2:21; Gen 15:12; 1Sa 26:12; Job 4:13; Job 33:15, but in Pro 19:15; Isa 29:10, it is used figuratively of torpor. In Act 20:9 (hupnos bathtus), heavy natural sleep is meant.