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Slum [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A foul back street of a city, especially one filled with a poor, dirty, degraded, and often vicious population; any low neighborhood or dark retreat; -- usually in the plural; as, Westminster slums are haunts for theives.

2. Same as Slimes.

Slumber [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Light sleep; sleep not deep or sound. From carelessness it shall settle into slumber and from slumber it shall settle into a deep and long sleep.

2. Sleep; repose.

3. Rest to my soul, and slumber to my eyes.

Slumber [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To sleep lightly; to doze. He that keepth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. Psalms 121:4 .

2. To sleep. slumber is used as synonymous with sleep, particularly in the poetic and eloquent style.

3. To be in a state of negligence, sloth, supineness or inactivity. Why slumbers Pope?

Slumber [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To lay to sleep.

2. To stun; to stupefy. [Little used and hardly legitimate.]

Slumber [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Sleep; especially, light sleep; sleep that is not deep or sound; repose.

Slumber [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To sleep; especially, to sleep lightly; to doze.

2. To be in a state of negligence, sloth, supineness, or inactivity.

Slumber [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To lay to sleep.

2. To stun; to stupefy.

Slumbered [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Slumber

Slumberer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

One that slumbers.

Slumberer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who slumbers; a sleeper.

Slumbering [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Dozing; sleeping.

Slumbering [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Slumberingly [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

In a slumbering manner.

Slumberless [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Without slumber; sleepless.

Slumberous [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Inviting slumber; soporiferous.

2. Being in the repose of slumber; sleepy; drowsy.

Slumbery [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. SLUM'BEROUS, SLUM'BERY, adjective

2. Inviting or causing sleep; soporiferous. While pensive in the slumberous shade

3. Sleep; not waking.

Slumbery [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Sleepy.

Slumbrous [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Slumberous.

Slumming [Verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Visiting slums.

Slump [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To fall or sink suddenly into water or mud, when walking on a hard surface, as on ice or frozed ground, not strong enough to bear the person. [This legitimate word is in common and respectable use in New England, and its signification is so approriate that no onther word wil supply its place.]

Slump [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The gross amount; the mass; the lump.

2. A boggy place.

3. The noise made by anything falling into a hole, or into a soft, miry place.

Slump [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To fall or sink suddenly through or in, when walking on a surface, as on thawing snow or ice, partly frozen ground, a bog, etc., not strong enough to bear the person.

Slump [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To lump; to throw into a mess.

Slumped [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Slump

Slumping [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Slump

Slumpy [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Easily broken through; boggy; marshy; swampy.

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15 KJV and 13 BSB verses contain “SLUM”

2 Kings 9:24

And Jehu drew a bow with his full strength, and smote Jehoram between his arms, and the arrow went out at his heart, and he sunk down in his chariot.

Then Jehu drew his bow and shot Joram between the shoulders. The arrow pierced his heart, and he slumped down in his chariot.

Job 33:15

In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;

In a dream, in a vision in the night, when deep sleep falls upon men as they slumber on their beds,

Psalms 121:3

He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber.

He will not allow your foot to slip; your Protector will not slumber.

Psalms 121:4

Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.

Behold, the Protector of Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.

Psalms 132:4

I will not give sleep to mine eyes, or slumber to mine eyelids,

I will not give sleep to my eyes or slumber to my eyelids,

Proverbs 4:16

For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.

For they cannot sleep unless they do evil; they are deprived of slumber until they make someone fall.

Proverbs 6:4

Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.

Allow no sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids.

Proverbs 6:10

Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:

A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest,

Proverbs 24:33

Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:

A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest,

Isaiah 5:27

None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:

None of them grows weary or stumbles; no one slumbers or sleeps. No belt is loose and no sandal strap is broken.

Isaiah 56:10

His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.

Israel’s watchmen are blind, they are all oblivious; they are all mute dogs, they cannot bark; they are dreamers lying around, loving to slumber.

Nahum 3:18

Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria: thy nobles shall dwell in the dust: thy people is scattered upon the mountains, and no man gathereth them.

O king of Assyria, your shepherds slumber; your officers sleep. Your people are scattered on the mountains with no one to gather them.

Matthew 25:5

While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.

When the bridegroom was delayed, they all became drowsy and fell asleep.

Romans 11:8

(According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day.

as it is written: “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that could not see, and ears that could not hear, to this very day.”

Romans 13:11

And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.

And do this, understanding the occasion. The hour has come for you to wake up from your slumber, for our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed.

2 Peter 2:3

And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.

In their greed, these false teachers will exploit you with deceptive words. The longstanding verdict against them remains in force, and their destruction does not sleep.

Sirach 22:8

He that telleth a tale to a fool speaketh to one in a slumber: when he hath told his tale, he will say, What is the matter?

Sirach 31:2

Watching care will not let a man slumber, as a sore disease breaketh sleep,