{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "G2837",
  "lemma": "κοιμάω",
  "transliteration": "koimáō",
  "definition": "to put to sleep, i.e. (passively or reflexively) to slumber; figuratively, to decease",
  "kjv": "(be a-, fall a-, fall on) sleep, be dead",
  "occurrences": 211,
  "language": "Greek",
  "builtFrom": [
    {
      "id": "G2749",
      "lemma": "κεῖμαι",
      "transliteration": "keîmai",
      "meaning": "to lie outstretched",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/word/G2749"
    }
  ],
  "brownDriverBriggs": [],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Matthew 27:52",
      "text": "The tombs were opened, and many bodies of the holy ones who had fallen asleep were raised;",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/27?v=52"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Matthew 28:13",
      "text": "saying, “Say that his disciples came by night and stole him away while we slept.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/28?v=13"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Luke 22:45",
      "text": "When he rose up from his prayer, he came to the disciples and found them sleeping because of grief,",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/luke/22?v=45"
    },
    {
      "reference": "John 11:11",
      "text": "He said these things, and after that, he said to them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going so that I…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/john/11?v=11"
    },
    {
      "reference": "John 11:12",
      "text": "The disciples therefore said, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover.”",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/john/11?v=12"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Acts 7:60",
      "text": "He kneeled down and cried with a loud voice, “Lord, don’t hold this sin against them!” When he had said this, he fell…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/acts/7?v=60"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Acts 12:6",
      "text": "The same night when Herod was about to bring him out, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/acts/12?v=6"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Acts 13:36",
      "text": "For David, after he had in his own generation served the counsel of God, fell asleep, was laid with his fathers, and…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/acts/13?v=36"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Corinthians 7:39",
      "text": "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…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/1-corinthians/7?v=39"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Corinthians 11:30",
      "text": "For this cause many among you are weak and sickly, and not a few sleep.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/1-corinthians/11?v=30"
    }
  ],
  "url": "https://besorah.bible/word/G2837",
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  "credit": "Besorah (https://besorah.bible). Texts and word data are open; terms and licences:",
  "license": "https://besorah.bible/data-licence.txt",
  "credits": "https://besorah.bible/about/credits.html"
}