سُبَاتٌ

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سُبَاتٌ primarily signifies Rest [like سَبْتٌ]: and hence, sleep: or heavy sleep: or sleep that is hardly perceptible (خَفِىّ, M, K, [in some copies of the K, as mentioned by Freytag, خَفِيف, i. e. light,]), like a swoon: or the commencement of sleep in the head [and its continuance] until it reaches the heart: or the sleep of one who is sick; i. e. light sleep: and سَبْتٌ signifies the same as سُبَاتٌ. Hence, in the Kur [lxxviii. 9, and in like manner the word is used in xxv. 49], وَجَعَلْنَا نَوْمَكُمْ سُبَاتًا; i. e. قَطْعًا; as though a man, when he slept, were cut off from [the rest of] mankind: or سبات is when one is cut off, or ceases, from motion, while the soul still remains in the body; i. e., the text means, And we have made your sleep to be rest unto you: or we have made your sleep to be a cutting off from sensation and motion, for rest to the animal forces, and for causing their weariness to cease: or, to be death: or, to be rest unto your bodies by the interruption of labour, or work.

def.2 See also سَبْتٌ, latter half, in three places.

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