UBS Greek Dictionary Article

Form 1

Part of speech: verb

Related lemmas: κεῖμαι

Sense 1: to sleep, to be asleep, sleep

Semantic entry: 23.66

Semantic domains: Physiological Processes and States

Subdomains: Sleep, Waking

Definition: the state of being asleep

Notes: In some languages sleep is expressed by an idiom, for example, ‘his soul had wandered away’ or ‘his eyes had disappeared.’ Though an expression such as ‘his soul had wandered away’ might appear in some languages to have misleading theological implications, it really means only ‘to sleep.’

MAT 28:13: RV MAT 28:13 · LV MAT 28:13 · Read together MAT 28:13

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OET-RV MAT 28:13

13 and told them, “Tell everyone that his followers came in the dark and stole his body when you’d fallen asleep.

OET-LV MAT 28:13

13 saying:
Say that:
The apprentices/followers of _him having _come by _night, stole him of _us falling _asleep.

LUK 22:45: RV LUK 22:45 · LV LUK 22:45 · Read together LUK 22:45

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45 Then standing again after praying, he went back to the apprentices and found that they’d fallen asleep from the sorrow

OET-LV LUK 22:45

45 And having _risen _up from the prayer, having _come to the apprentices/followers, he _found them being _fallen _asleep from the sorrow,

All 4 recorded passages for this sense

MAT: RV MAT 28:13 · LV MAT 28:13 · Read together MAT 28:13

LUK: RV LUK 22:45 · LV LUK 22:45 · Read together LUK 22:45

JHN: RV JHN 11:12 · LV JHN 11:12 · Read together JHN 11:12

ACT: RV ACT 12:6 · LV ACT 12:6 · Read together ACT 12:6

Sense 2: to be dead, to have died

Semantic entry: 23.104

Semantic domains: Physiological Processes and States

Subdomains: Live, Die

Definition: (figurative extension of meaning of κοιμάομαι[a] ‘to sleep,’ 23.66: καθεύδω / 23.66: κοιμάομαι / 23.66: κοίμησις / 23.66: ὕπνος) to sleep, as a euphemistic expression for the state of being dead

Notes: Some translators have attempted to preserve the figure of speech in καθεύδω [source selector 000001][b] and κοιμάομαι[b] by translating ‘to sleep’ rather than ‘to have died’ or ‘to be dead.’ Such a practice, however, has resulted in misunderstanding in a number of instances and has sometimes led to the doctrine of so-called ‘soul-sleep.’

MAT 27:52: RV MAT 27:52 · LV MAT 27:52 · Read together MAT 27:52

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52 Some tombs came open and many bodies of godly people came alive again

OET-LV MAT 27:52