Drowsiness
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
(n.) State of being drowsy.
Greek
2702. kataphero -- to bring down
... From kata and phero (including its alternate); to bear down, ie (figuratively) overcome
(with drowsiness); specially, to cast a vote -- fall, give, sink down. ...
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Strong's Hebrew
5124. numah -- somnolence, indolence
... 5123, 5124. numah. 5125 . somnolence, indolence. Transliteration: numah Phonetic
Spelling: (noo-maw') Short Definition: drowsiness. ... drowsiness. ...
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5123. num -- to be drowsy, slumber
... 1). sleep, slumber. A primitive root; to slumber (from drowsiness) -- sleep,
slumber. 5122, 5123. num. 5124 . Strong's Numbers.
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8572. tenumah -- slumber
... Word Origin from num Definition slumber NASB Word Usage slumber (5). slumbering.
From nuwm; drowsiness, ie Sleep -- slumber(-ing). see HEBREW nuwm. 8571, 8572 ...
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Library

Begins to Treat of the Union of the Soul with God in Prayer. How ...
... Do not imagine that this state of prayer is, like the one preceding it, a sort of
drowsiness (I call it 'drowsiness' because the soul seems to slumber, being ...
/.../teresa/the interior castle or the mansions/chapter i begins to treat.htm

How to Make Use of Christ as the Life, when the Believer is So ...
... 5. Through their not stirring up themselves, and shaking off that spirit of laziness
and drowsiness, when it first seizeth upon them; but, with the sluggard ...
/.../brown/christ the way the truth and the life/chapter xxi how to make.htm

Of the Causes which Alienate us from God.
... and the thoughts wherein I meditated upon Thee were like unto the efforts of those
desiring to awake, who, still overpowered with a heavy drowsiness, are again ...
/.../augustine/the confessions and letters of st/chapter v of the causes which.htm

Whether Sloth Should be Accounted a Capital vice?
... "idleness, drowsiness, uneasiness of the mind, restlessness of the body, instability,
loquacity, curiosity." Therefore it seems that either Gregory or Isidore ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether sloth should be accounted.htm

Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners:
... 'Christian. Now then, to prevent drowsiness in this place, let us fall into good
discourse. 'Hopeful. With all my heart. 'Christian. Where shall we begin? ...
/.../bunyan/the works of john bunyan volumes 1-3/grace abounding to the chief.htm

How to Make Use of Christ as the Life when the Soul is Dead as to ...
... 4. There is a giving way to spiritual drowsiness, and upsitting in duties,
and in the way of God. "I sleep," said the spouse, Cant. ...
/.../brown/christ the way the truth and the life/chapter xxiii how to make.htm

On Redeeming the Time
... We cannot think good of him, who is such a slave to drowsiness as to neglect
his business for it. "Let this, therefore, teach us ...
/.../wesley/sermons on several occasions/sermon 93 on redeeming the.htm

Let These Dealers in Crowns Then Recognize in the Meantime the ...
... that Bacchus the same as Osiris among the Egyptians, was designedly crowned with
ivy, because it is the nature of ivy to protect the brain against drowsiness. ...
/.../tertullian/the chaplet or de corona/chapter vii let these dealers.htm

Under Ban of the Ritual
... The heavy drowsiness of a mid-winter noon had depopulated her booths and
bazaars and quieted the quaint traffic of her squares. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/miller/the yoke/chapter ii under ban of.htm

The Turning Point
... many will whose sorrow for sin leads them into a proud unbelief and wilful despair
of God's love; but he was wise, for he shook off the drowsiness of his ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 20 1874/the turning point.htm

Thesaurus
Drowsiness (2 Occurrences)
... Multi-Version Concordance Drowsiness (2 Occurrences). ... Proverbs 23:21 for the drunkard
and the glutton shall become poor; and drowsiness clothes them in rags. ...
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Nod (2 Occurrences)
... 2. (vi) To incline the head with a quick motion; to make a slight bow; to make a
motion of assent, of salutation, or of drowsiness, with the head; as, to nod ...
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Quaffer (1 Occurrence)
... Multi-Version Concordance Quaffer (1 Occurrence). Proverbs 23:21 For the quaffer
and glutton become poor, And drowsiness clotheth with rags. (YLT). ...
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Glutton (4 Occurrences)
... Proverbs 23:21 for the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor; and drowsiness
clothes them in rags. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV). ...
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Gluttons (3 Occurrences)
... NIV). Proverbs 23:21 For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty;
and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags. (See NIV). ...
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Rag
... Plural in Proverbs 23:21, "Drowsiness will clothe a man with rags" (qera'im "torn
garment"; compare 1 Kings 11:30), and figuratively in Isaiah 64:6 the King ...
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Rags (6 Occurrences)
... (See NIV). Proverbs 23:21 for the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor; and
drowsiness clothes them in rags. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV). ...
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Eutychus (1 Occurrence)
... Fortunate, (Acts 20:9-12), a young man of Troas who fell through drowsiness from
the open window of the third floor of the house where Paul was preaching, and ...
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Drunkard (15 Occurrences)
... (YLT). Proverbs 23:21 for the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor; and
drowsiness clothes them in rags. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV NIV). ...
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Drowsy (2 Occurrences)

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Drowsiness (2 Occurrences)

Romans 11:8
And so Scripture says, "God has given them a spirit of drowsiness--eyes to see nothing with and ears to hear nothing with--even until now."
(WEY)

Proverbs 23:21
for the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor; and drowsiness clothes them in rags.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

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Drowsiness

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