חָטַף שֵׁינָה, חָטַף תְּנוּמָה, חֲטָפַתּוּ שֵׁינָה

ביטוי (אנגלית)

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

הגדרה (אנגלית)

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)