κοιμάω
koimáō · G2837 · Greek · 18 occurrences
Meanings
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to sleep, to be asleep, sleep
The state of being asleep
ExamplesMatthew 28:13 and said, “You are to say, ‘His disciples came at night and stole Him while we were asleep.’
Luke 22:45 When He rose from prayer, He came to the disciples and found them sleeping from sorrow,
John 11:12 The disciples then said to Him, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will come out of it.”
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to be dead, to have died
(Figurative extension of meaning of κοιμάομαι ‘to sleep,’) To sleep, as a euphemistic expression for the state of being dead
ExamplesMatthew 27:52 Also the tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised;
John 11:11 This He said, and after this He said to them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; but I am going so that I may awaken him from sleep.”
Acts 7:60 Then he fell on his knees and cried out with a loud voice, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them!” Having said this, he fell asleep.
How it’s used In 7 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
17 occurrences in 11 groups
- Not stated (participle) 6
- Other words · 10 groups that occur once or twice (11) 11
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- διάthrough+ ἸησοῦςJesus 1
- ἐνin+ ΧριστόςChrist, Messiah 1
- ἀπόfrom+ λύπηgrief, sorrow 1
With adverbsAdverbs
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- οὐnot 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἀπόλλυμιto destroy, to perish, to lose 1
What is done to itIt is the object
4 occurrences in 4 groups
- εὑρίσκωto find, to discover 1
- λέγωto say 1
- φθάνωto come upon, to reach, to attain 1
- ἄγωto bring, to lead 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- περίconcerning, about, for 2
- ἀπόfrom 2
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- σῶμαbody 1
- ἀπαρχήfirstfruits 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- שָׁכַב shâkab · H7901 · to lie, to lie down, to lay down
- שָׁכַב (shâkab, H7901) is the primary Hebrew verb for physical lying down or sleeping, which the LXX translators rendered with κοιμάω (koimáō, G2837) in both its literal sleeping sense and its euphemistic death sense ("to sleep with one's fathers"), establishing a direct translation equivalent across both languages' shared semantic extension from sleep to death.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- To be dead, to have died23.104
- κοιμάω is used as a euphemism for death, literally meaning to sleep. 1 Corinthians 15:20 declares, “the fact is, Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who are asleep,” the κοιμάω naming this state of death pictured as sleep, from which Christ was the first to rise.
- To sleep, to be asleep, sleep23.66
- The same verb also names ordinary physical sleep. Matthew 27:52 recounts that at Jesus’ death “the tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised,” κοιμάω here naming their prior state of sleep-like death, distinct from the ordinary sense of falling asleep it carries elsewhere, such as in describing simple physical rest.
Word family 17 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon κοίμω: passive, present κοιμάομαι. κοιμωμαι; perfect κεκοίμημαι (cf. Winer's Grammar, 274…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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