Snatch some sleep, take a quick nap, be overtaken by sleep/ to be seized with sleep/ fall asleep (חָטַף שֵׁינָה, חָטַף תְּנוּמָה, חֲטָפַתּוּ שֵׁינָה)
Snatch some sleep, take a quick nap, be overtaken by sleep/ to be seized with sleep/ fall asleep (חָטַף שֵׁינָה, חָטַף תְּנוּמָה, חֲטָפַתּוּ שֵׁינָה)

Snatch some sleep, take a quick nap, be overtaken by sleep/ to be seized with sleep/ fall asleep

To take a quick nap. To take a short nap (to take a quick nap).

("The sages made a fence around their words, so that a person should not come in from the field in the evening and say: I will go home, eat a little, drink a little, and sleep a little, and afterward I will recite the Shema and pray. And sleep will snatch him, and he will be found sleeping all night" - Berakhot 4b; and likewise: "so that sleep does not snatch them... or he is studying while dozing, half-awake, half-asleep; he is wasting his effort for nothing" - Pele Yoetz, letter ayin, entry; and likewise: "and he knew that his wife was washing the dishes. Meaning, not yet had an hour passed since sleep had snatched me" - Agnon, Ad Henah, HaMalbush, 244)

Translation

Expression (Hebrew)

חָטַף שֵׁינָה, חָטַף תְּנוּמָה, חֲטָפַתּוּ שֵׁינָה

Definition (Hebrew)

תָּפַס מַהֵר שֵׁינָה. הִסְפִּיק לִישֹׁון שֵׁינָה קְצָרָה (חָטַף מַשְׁמָע לָקַח בִּמְהִירוּת).

("חֲכָמִים עָשׂוּ סְיָג לְדִבְרֵיהֶם, כְּדֵי שֶׁלֹּא יְהֵא אָדָם בָּא מִן הַשָּׂדֶה בָּעֶרֶב וְאוֹמֵר: אֵלֵךְ לְבֵיתִי וְאֹכַל קִמְעָא וְאֶשְׁתֶּה קִמְעָא וְאִישַׁן קִמְעָא, וְאַחַר כָּךְ אֶקְרָא קְרִיאַת שְׁמַע וְאֶתְפַּלֵּל. וְחוֹטַפְתּוֹ שֵׁנָה וְנִמְצָא יָשֵׁן כָּל הַלַּיְלָה"- בְּרָכוֹת ד ע"ב, וְכֵן:"שֶׁלֹּא תַּחְטְפֵם שֵׁנָה...אוֹ יִהְיֶה לוֹמֵד מִתְנַמְנֵם,נִים וְלֹא נִים, תִּיר וְלָא תִּיר, הֲרֵי זֶה יָגַע לָרִיק"- פֶּלֶא יוֹעֵץ/ אוֹת ע', עֵרֶךְ, וְכֵן:"וְיָדַע שֶׁאִשְׁתּוֹ שׁוֹטֶפֶת אֶת הַכֵּלִים. מַשְׁמָע שֶׁעֲדַיִן לֹא יָצְאָה שָׁעָה קַלָּה מִשָּׁעָה שֶׁחֲטַפְתַּנִי שֵׁנָה"- עַגְנוֹן/ עַד הֵנָּה, הַמַּלְבּוּשׁ, 244)

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