He awoke from his sleep
Waking up from her sleep was a blessing.
("And the Philistines said unto Samson, Come now, and I will be shaken: but he knew not that the Lord was with him" - Judges 16:20 (on Samson and Delilah), and also: "Has the old Lebanon awoke from his sleep in the forests, / the old Lebanon, which slumbered?" - H.N. Bialik/ to the bird, and also: "And she said, Because the man of the slain has come to her And she awoke from her sleep" - Shai Agnon/ The Book of the Ninevites, the daughter of the man, and so on: "In the morning the king awoke from his sleep, and looked, and behold, he was lying on his bed, and in his house it was quiet and peaceful" - Mordecai ben Yehezkel/ The Book of Acts, Part Four, from the Well, 128, and so on: "At that time the sun sent his horns to your house/ "The allotment of your sleep/ You waited for the sun" - Abraham Ben Zeev/ Me and My Poems)
Translation
Expression (Hebrew)
הֵקִיץ מִשְׁנָתוֹ
Definition (Hebrew)
הִתְעוֹרֵר מֵהַתַּרְדֵּמָה בָּהּ הָיָה שָׁרוּי.
("וַתֹּאמֶר פְּלִשְׁתִּים עָלֶיךָ שִׁמְשׁוֹן וַיִּקַץ מִשְּׁנָתוֹ וַיֹּאמֶר אֵצֵא כְּפַעַם בְּפַעַם וְאִנָּעֵר וְהוּא לֹא יָדַע כִּי ה' סָר מֵעָלָיו"- שׁוֹפְטִים טז כ (עַל שִׁמְשׁוֹן וּדְלִילָה), וְכֵן:"הֶהָקִיץ מִשְׁנָתוֹ הַשָּׁב בַּיְּעָרִים/ הַלְּבָנוֹן הַיָּשָׁן, הַנִּרְדָּם?"- ח.נ. בְּיָאלִיק/ אֶל הַצִּפּוֹר, וְכֵן:"וְאָמְרָה כִּי הָאִישׁ הַלָּז הַבֵּעשְׁ"ט בָּא אֶצְלָהּ וְהֵקִיצָה מִשְּׁנָתָהּ"- שַׁ"י עַגְנוֹן/ סִפּוּרֵי הַבֵּעשְׁ"ט, בַּת הַגְּבִיר, וְכֵן:"בַּבֹּקֶר הֵקִיץ הַמֶּלֶךְ מִשְּׁנָתוֹ, וַיַּרְא וְהִנֵּה הוּא שׁוֹכֵב בְּמִטָּתוֹ, וּבְבֵיתוֹ שָׁקֵט וְשַׁאֲנָן"- מָרְדְּכַי בֶּן יְחֶזְקֵאל/ סֵפֶר הַמַּעֲשִׂיּוֹת חֵלֶק רְבִיעִי, מִתּוֹךְ הַבּוֹר, 128, וְכֵן:"עֵת הַשֶּׁמֶשׁ שָׁלַח אֶל בֵּיתְךָ אֶת קַרְנָיו/ אֶת הַקְּצָת מִשְּׁנָתְךָ/ אֶל הַשֶּׁמֶשׁ חִיַּכְתָּ"- אַבְרָהָם בֶּן זְאֵב/ אֲנִי וְשִׁירִי)