# G2837 κοιμάω

κοιμάω (koimáō), Strong’s G2837: to put to sleep, i.e. (passively or reflexively) to slumber; figuratively, to decease KJV: (be a-, fall a-, fall on) sleep, be dead. Occurs 211 times.

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*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](https://besorah.bible/word/G2749) (to lie outstretched)

Occurs 211 times.

## Where it occurs
- [Matthew 27:52](https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/27?v=52) — The tombs were opened, and many bodies of the holy ones who had fallen asleep were raised;
- [Matthew 28:13](https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/28?v=13) — saying, “Say that his disciples came by night and stole him away while we slept.
- [Luke 22:45](https://besorah.bible/besorah/luke/22?v=45) — When he rose up from his prayer, he came to the disciples and found them sleeping because of grief,
- [John 11:11](https://besorah.bible/besorah/john/11?v=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](https://besorah.bible/besorah/john/11?v=12) — The disciples therefore said, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover.”
- [Acts 7:60](https://besorah.bible/besorah/acts/7?v=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](https://besorah.bible/besorah/acts/12?v=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](https://besorah.bible/besorah/acts/13?v=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](https://besorah.bible/besorah/1-corinthians/7?v=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](https://besorah.bible/besorah/1-corinthians/11?v=30) — For this cause many among you are weak and sickly, and not a few sleep.