Lexicon aphupnoo: I fall asleep Original Word: ἀφυπνόωPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: aphupnoo Phonetic Spelling: (af-oop-no'-o) Short Definition: I fall asleep Definition: I fall asleep. Thayer's STRONGS NT 879: ἀφυπνόωἀφυπνόω, ἀφύπνω: 1 aorist ἀφυπνωσα; ( ὑπνόω to put to sleep, to sleep); a. to awaken from sleep (Anthol. Pal. 9, 517, 5). b. to fall asleep, to fall off to sleep: Luke 8:23; for this the ancient Greeks used καθυπνόω; see Lobeck ad Phryn., p. 224. (Hermas, vis. 1, 1 [ET].)
Strong's fall asleep. From a compound of apo and hupnos; properly, to become awake, i.e. (by implication) to drop (off) in slumber -- fall asleep. see GREEK apo see GREEK hupnos |
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