ἀφυπνόω
aphypnóō · G879 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to fall asleep
To begin to sleep
ExamplesLuke 8:23 But as they were sailing along He fell asleep; and a fierce gale of wind descended on the lake, and they began to be swamped and to be in danger.
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
Who or what does itSubject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- Not stated: he, she or it 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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Near synonyms 1 word
- καθεύδω katheúdō · G2518 · to sleep, to be asleep, sleep
- The standard Greek verb for sleeping; while ἀφυπνόω emphasizes the moment of dropping off into sleep, καθεύδω refers to the state of being asleep, often used interchangeably in contexts describing someone falling asleep
Contrasting words 1 word
- ἐγείρω egeírō · G1453 · to get up, to cause to stand up, to stand up
- Direct lexical opposite: ἀφυπνόω means to fall into sleep, while ἐγείρω means to wake up or be roused from sleep
In the other Testament 2 words
- יָשֵׁן yâshên · H3463 · sleeping, asleep
- The most common Hebrew verb for falling asleep or sleeping; directly equivalent to the Greek notion of dropping off into slumber
- נוּם nûwm · H5123 · to slumber, to sleep
- Hebrew verb specifically for slumbering or dozing off, capturing the same sense of falling into light sleep
Semantic domains 1 entry
- To fall asleep23.70
- Used of drifting off to sleep, as of Jesus who fell asleep in the boat during the crossing in Luke 8:23.
Word family 8 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἀφύπνω: 1 aorist ἀφυπνωσα; (ὑπνόω to put to sleep, to sleep); a. to awaken from sleep…
a. to awaken from sleep (Anthol. Pal. 9, 517, 5).
b. to fall asleep, to fall off to sleep: Lk 8:23; for this the ancient Greeks used καθυπνόω; see Lobeck ad Phryn., p. 224. (Hermas, vis. 1, 1 [ET].)
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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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