Lexicon koimaó from NG2749: sleep, fall asleep, die Original Word: κοιμάομαιPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: koimaó from NG2749 Phonetic Spelling: (koy-mah'-o) Short Definition: I fall asleep, am asleep Definition: I fall asleep, am asleep, sometimes of the sleep of death. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originto put to sleep, fall asleep NASB Translationasleep (3), dead (1), fallen asleep (7), fell asleep (3), sleep (2), sleeping (2).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 2837: κοιμάωκοιμάω, κοίμω: passive, present κοιμάομαι. κοιμωμαι; perfect κεκοίμημαι (cf. Winer's Grammar, 274 (257)); 1 aorist ἐκοιμήθην; 1 future κοιμηθήσομαι; (akin to κεῖμαι; Curtius, § 45); to cause to sleep, put to sleep ( Homer, et al.); metaphorically, to still, calm, quiet, ( Homer, Aeschylus, Plato); passive to sleep, fall asleep: properly, Matthew 28:13; Luke 22:45; John 11:12; Acts 12:6; the Sept. for שָׁכַב. metaphorically, and euphemistically equivalent to to die (cf. English to fall asleep): John 11:11; Acts 7:60; Acts 13:36; 1 Corinthians 7:39; 1 Corinthians 11:30; 1 Corinthians 15:6, 51 (cf. Winers Grammar, 555 (517); Buttmann, 121 (106) note); 2 Peter 3:4; οἱ κοιμώμενοι, κεκοιμημένοι, κοιμηθέντες, equivalent to the dead: Matthew 27:52; 1 Corinthians 15:20; 1 Thessalonians 4:13-15; with ἐν Χριστῷ added (see ἐν, I. 6 b., p. 211b), 1 Corinthians 15:18; in the same sense Isaiah 14:8; Isaiah 43:17; 1 Kings 11:43; 2 Macc. 12:45; Homer, Iliad 11, 241; Sophocles Electr. 509.
Strong's sleep, fall asleep, die From keimai; to put to sleep, i.e. (passively or reflexively) to slumber; figuratively, to decease -- (be a-, fall a-, fall on) sleep, be dead. see GREEK keimai |
