How many times does the word sleep appear in NIV bible?

Answer 1

There are 69 verses where the word Sleep appears in the NIV Bible. There are 102 verses if you count other forms of Sleep, like Sleeping.

Here are the verses:

1. Genesis 2:21

   So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man's ribs and closed up the place with flesh.

2. Genesis 15:12

   As the sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and a thick and dreadful darkness came over him.

3. Genesis 16:2

   so she said to Abram, "The LORD has kept me from having children. Go, sleep with my maidservant; perhaps I can build a family through her." Abram agreed to what Sarai said.

4. Genesis 28:11

   When he reached a certain place, he stopped for the night because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones there, he put it under his head and lay down to sleep.

5. Genesis 28:16

   When Jacob awoke from his sleep, he thought, "Surely the LORD is in this place, and I was not aware of it."

6. Genesis 30:3

   Then she said, "Here is Bilhah, my maidservant. Sleepwith her so that she can bear children for me and that through her I too can build a family."

7. Genesis 30:15

   But she said to her, "Wasn't it enough that you took away my husband? Will you take my son's mandrakes too?" "Very well," Rachel said, "he can sleep with you tonight in return for your son's mandrakes."

8. Genesis 30:16

   So when Jacob came in from the fields that evening, Leah went out to meet him. "You must sleep with me," she said. "I have hired you with my son's mandrakes." So he slept with her that night.

9. Genesis 31:40

   This was my situation: The heat consumed me in the daytime and the cold at night, and sleep fled from my eyes.

10. Genesis 38:16

    Not realizing that she was his daughter-in-law, he went over to her by the roadside and said, "Come now, let me sleep with you." "And what will you give me to sleep with you?" she asked.

11. Genesis 38:26

    Judah recognized them and said, "She is more righteous than I, since I wouldn't give her to my son Shelah." And he did not sleep with her again.

12. Genesis 39:14

    she called her household servants. "Look," she said to them, "this Hebrew has been brought to us to make sport of us! He came in here to sleep with me, but I screamed.

13. Exodus 22:27

    because his cloak is the only covering he has for his body. What else will he sleep in? When he cries out to me, I will hear, for I am compassionate.

14. Deuteronomy 24:12

    If the man is poor, do not go to sleep with his pledge in your possession.

15. Deuteronomy 24:13

    Return his cloak to him by sunset so that he may sleep in it. Then he will thank you, and it will be regarded as a righteous act in the sight of the LORD your God.

16. Judges 16:14

    and tightened it with the pin. Again she called to him, "Samson, the Philistines are upon you!" He awoke from his sleep and pulled up the pin and the loom, with the fabric.

17. Judges 16:19

    Having put him to sleep on her lap, she called a man to shave off the seven braids of his hair, and so began to subdue him. And his strength left him.

18. Judges 16:20

    Then she called, "Samson, the Philistines are upon you!" He awoke from his sleep and thought, "I'll go out as before and shake myself free." But he did not know that the LORD had left him.

19. 1 Samuel 26:12

    So David took the spear and water jug near Saul's head, and they left. No one saw or knew about it, nor did anyone wake up. They were all sleeping, because the LORD had put them into a deep sleep.

20. 2 Samuel 3:7

    Now Saul had had a concubine named Rizpah daughter of Aiah. And Ish-Bosheth said to Abner, "Why did you sleep with my father's concubine?"

21. 2 Samuel 11:13

    At David's invitation, he ate and drank with him, and David made him drunk. But in the evening Uriah went out to sleep on his mat among his master's servants; he did not go home.

22. Esther 6:1

    [ Mordecai Honored ] That night the king could not sleep; so he ordered the book of the chronicles, the record of his reign, to be brought in and read to him.

23. Job 4:13

    Amid disquieting dreams in the night, when deep sleepfalls on men,

24. Job 14:12

    so man lies down and does not rise; till the heavens are no more, men will not awake or be roused from their sleep.

25. Job 31:10

    then may my wife grind another man's grain, and may other men sleep with her.

26. Job 33:15

    In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleepfalls on men as they slumber in their beds,

27. Psalm 3:5

    I lie down and sleep; I wake again, because the LORD sustains me.

28. Psalm 4:8

    I will lie down and sleep in peace, for you alone, O LORD, make me dwell in safety.

29. Psalm 7:5

    then let my enemy pursue and overtake me; let him trample my life to the ground and make me sleep in the dust. Selah

30. Psalm 13:3

    Look on me and answer, O LORD my God. Give light to my eyes, or I will sleep in death;

31. Psalm 44:23

    Awake, O Lord! Why do you sleep? Rouse yourself! Do not reject us forever.

32. Psalm 68:13

    Even while you sleep among the campfires, the wings of my dove are sheathed with silver, its feathers with shining gold."

33. Psalm 76:5

    Valiant men lie plundered, they sleep their last sleep; not one of the warriors can lift his hands.

34. Psalm 78:65

    Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, as a man wakes from the stupor of wine.

35. Psalm 90:5

    You sweep men away in the sleep of death; they are like the new grass of the morning-

36. Psalm 121:4

    indeed, he who watches over Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.

37. Psalm 127:2

    In vain you rise early and stay up late, toiling for food to eat- for he grants sleep to those he loves.

38. Psalm 132:4

    I will allow no sleep to my eyes, no slumber to my eyelids,

39. Proverbs 3:24

    when you lie down, you will not be afraid; when you lie down, your sleep will be sweet.

40. Proverbs 4:16

    For they cannot sleep till they do evil; they are robbed of slumber till they make someone fall.

41. Proverbs 6:4

    Allow no sleep to your eyes, no slumber to your eyelids.

42. Proverbs 6:9

    How long will you lie there, you sluggard? When will you get up from your sleep?

43. Proverbs 6:10

    A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest-

44. Proverbs 6:22

    When you walk, they will guide you; when you sleep, they will watch over you; when you awake, they will speak to you.

45. Proverbs 19:15

    Laziness brings on deep sleep, and the shiftless man goes hungry.

46. Proverbs 20:13

    Do not love sleep or you will grow poor; stay awake and you will have food to spare.

47. Proverbs 24:33

    A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest-

48. Ecclesiastes 5:12

    The sleep of a laborer is sweet, whether he eats little or much, but the abundance of a rich man permits him no sleep.

49. Ecclesiastes 8:16

    When I applied my mind to know wisdom and to observe man's labor on earth-his eyes not seeing sleep day or night-

50. Isaiah 29:10

    The LORD has brought over you a deep sleep: He has sealed your eyes (the prophets); he has covered your heads (the seers).

51. Isaiah 56:10

    Israel's Watchmen are blind, they all lack knowledge; they are all mute dogs, they cannot bark; they lie around and dream, they love to sleep.

52. Jeremiah 31:26

    At this I awoke and looked around. My sleep had been pleasant to me.

53. Jeremiah 51:39

    But while they are aroused, I will set out a feast for them and make them drunk, so that they shout with laughter- then sleep forever and not awake," declares the LORD.

54. Jeremiah 51:57

    I will make her officials and wise men drunk, her governors, officers and warriors as well; they will sleep forever and not awake," declares the King, whose name is the LORD Almighty.

55. Ezekiel 23:44

    And they slept with her. As men sleep with a prostitute, so they slept with those lewd women, Oholah and Oholibah.

56. Ezekiel 34:25

    " 'I will make a covenant of peace with them and rid the land of wild beasts so that they may live in the desert and sleep in the forests in safety.

57. Daniel 2:1

    [ Nebuchadnezzar's Dream ] In the second year of his reign, Nebuchadnezzar had dreams; his mind was troubled and he could not sleep.

58. Daniel 6:18

    Then the king returned to his palace and spent the night without eating and without any entertainment being brought to him. And he could not sleep.

59. Daniel 8:18

    While he was speaking to me, I was in a deep sleep, with my face to the ground. Then he touched me and raised me to my feet.

60. Daniel 10:9

    Then I heard him speaking, and as I listened to him, I fell into a deep sleep, my face to the ground.

61. Daniel 12:2

    Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt.

62. Jonah 1:5

    All the sailors were afraid and each cried out to his own god. And they threw the cargo into the sea to lighten the ship. But Jonah had gone below deck, where he lay down and fell into a deep sleep.

63. Jonah 1:6

    The captain went to him and said, "How can you sleep? Get up and call on your god! Maybe he will take notice of us, and we will not perish."

64. Zechariah 4:1

    [ The Gold Lampstand and the Two Olive Trees ] Then the angel who talked with me returned and wakened me, as a man is wakened from his sleep.

65. John 11:13

    Jesus had been speaking of his death, but his disciples thought he meant natural sleep.

66. Acts 20:9

    Seated in a window was a young man named Eutychus, who was sinking into a deep sleep as Paul talked on and on. When he was sound asleep, he fell to the ground from the third story and was picked up dead.

    Acts 20:8-10 (in Context) Acts 20 (Whole Chapter)

67. 1 Corinthians 15:51

    Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed-

68. 2 Corinthians 11:27

    I have labored and toiled and have often gone without sleep; I have known hunger and thirst and have often gone without food; I have been cold and naked.

69. 1 Thessalonians 5:7

    For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, get drunk at night.