G2837 κοιμάω
koimáō — to put to sleep, i.e. (passively or reflexively) to slumber; figuratively, to decease
KJV: (be a-, fall a-, fall on) sleep, be dead
Derived from κεῖμαι keîmai (to lie outstretched)
Occurs 211 times. Every verse with this word
Where it occurs
- Matthew 27:52 — The tombs were opened, and many bodies of the holy ones who had fallen asleep were raised;
- Matthew 28:13 — saying, “Say that his disciples came by night and stole him away while we slept.
- Luke 22:45 — When he rose up from his prayer, he came to the disciples and found them sleeping because of grief,
- John 11:11 — He said these things, and after that, he said to them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going so that I…
- John 11:12 — The disciples therefore said, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover.”
- Acts 7:60 — He kneeled down and cried with a loud voice, “Lord, don’t hold this sin against them!” When he had said this, he fell…
- Acts 12:6 — The same night when Herod was about to bring him out, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains…
- Acts 13:36 — For David, after he had in his own generation served the counsel of God, fell asleep, was laid with his fathers, and…
- 1 Corinthians 7:39 — A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to…
- 1 Corinthians 11:30 — For this cause many among you are weak and sickly, and not a few sleep.