هجع

Core meaning

To yield to slumber; the single use shows it reduced to little of the night.

Uses

1. يَهْجَعُونَ → "yield to slumber" : the sleep one consents to, measured by the restriction that frames it.

   • «مِّنَ ٱلَّيْلِ مَا يَهْجَعُونَ» — "of the night to slumber" (51:17)

Evidence from the text

The single occurrence describes those who guard themselves: "They yielded but little of the night to slumber" (51:17). Sleep is not denied, it is restricted; the next verse says what the rest of the night was for: asking forgiveness at dawn (51:18).

Distinctions

• نوم — sleep as a state; هجع, the act of yielding to it.