TO FALL INTO A DEEP SLEEP — the heavy, often God-sent stupor, not ordinary rest. The noun tardemah is the sleep that falls on Adam when the side is taken (Genesis 2:21) and on Abram at the covenant of the pieces (Genesis 15:12), and the deep sleep of Sisera and of Saul's camp. ⚠ Jonah 1:5 gives it to a prophet in a crisis: while pagan sailors fight the storm and pray, Jonah has gone below and 'fallen into a deep sleep' — a spiritual numbness dressed as literal unconsciousness, from which a heathen captain has to wake him. → first discussed at Jonah 1:5