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κοίμησις

koímēsis · G2838 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. to sleep, to be asleep, sleep

    The state of being asleep

    Examples

    John 11:13 Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that He was speaking about actual sleep.

How it’s used In 2 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

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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Semantic domains 1 entry
To sleep, to be asleep, sleep23.66
κοίμησις names the act or state of sleeping. John 11:13 recounts that “Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that He was speaking about actual sleep,” the κοίμησις naming this ordinary rest the disciples mistakenly understood Him to mean.
Word family 17 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

κεῖμαι keîmai · G2749 · to lie, to recline, to be · 24×κώμη kṓmē · G2968 · village, the people there, the people of a village · 27×κοιμάω koimáō · G2837 · to sleep, to be asleep, sleep · 18×ἀνακεῖμαι anakeîmai · G345 · to recline, to eat, to be at table · 14×κατάκειμαι katákeimai · G2621 · to lie, lying down, to recline · 12×ἀντίκειμαι antíkeimai · G480 · to oppose, to be hostile toward, to show hostility · 8×ἐπίκειμαι epíkeimai · G1945 · to be on, to lie on, to press against · 7×συνανάκειμαι synanákeimai · G4873 · to eat together, to associate in a meal · 7×περίκειμαι períkeimai · G4029 · to be around, to surround, to be placed around · 5×πρόκειμαι prókeimai · G4295 · to exist openly, to exist clearly, to exist later · 5×ἀπόκειμαι apókeimai · G606 · to store, to put away in a place, to exist · 4×κοίτη koítē · G2845 · bed, sexual activity, sexual life · 4×κῶμος kōmos · G2970 · orgy, revelling, carousing · 3×παράκειμαι parákeimai · G3873 · to be present, to be here, to be there · 2×κοίμησιςkoímēsis · G2838κοιτών koitṓn · G2846 · bedroom · 1×κωμόπολις kōmópolis · G2969 · town, market town · 1×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon κοιμησως, ἡ, a reposing, taking rest: Jn 11:13 (cf. Winer's Grammar, § 59, 8a.); of…
κοιμησως, ἡ, a reposing, taking rest: Jn 11:13 (cf. Winer's Grammar, § 59, 8a.); of death, Sir. 46:19 Sir. 48:13; a lying, reclining, Plato, conv., p. 183 a.

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Sleep, Waking1 occurrence

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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