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κοιμάομαι

MainId: 002852000000000

Version: 0

HasAramaic: False

InLXX: False

AlphaPos: κ

StrongCodes: G2837

BaseForms:

BaseFormID: 002852001000000
PartsOfSpeech: verb
RelatedLemmas: {'Word': 'κεῖμαι', 'Meanings': []}
LEXMeanings:
1. LEXID: 002852001001000
  LEXIsBiblicalTerm: Y
  LEXEntryCode: 23.66
  LEXIndent: 0
  LEXDomains: Physiological Processes and States
  LEXSubDomains: Sleep, Waking
  LEXSenses:
  1. LanguageCode: en
    LastEdited: 2021-10-13 12:41:14
    DefinitionShort: the state of being asleep
    Glosses: ['to sleep', 'to be asleep', 'sleep']
    Comments: 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.’
  LEXReferences: MAT 28:13, LUKE 22:45, YHN 11:12, ACTs 12:6
2. LEXID: 002852001002000
  LEXIsBiblicalTerm: Y
  LEXEntryCode: 23.104
  LEXIndent: 0
  LEXDomains: Physiological Processes and States
  LEXSubDomains: Live, Die
  LEXSenses:
  1. LanguageCode: en
    LastEdited: 2021-10-13 12:41:14
    DefinitionShort: (figurative extension of meaning of {L:κοιμάομαι}[a] ‘to sleep,’ {D:23.66}) to sleep, as a euphemistic expression for the state of being dead
    Glosses: ['to be dead', 'to have died']
    Comments: Some translators have attempted to preserve the figure of speech in {L:καθεύδω}[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.’
  LEXReferences: MAT 27:52, YHN 11:11, ACTs 7:60, ACTs 13:36, 1COR 7:39, 1COR 11:30, 1COR 15:6, 1COR 15:18, 1COR 15:20, 1COR 15:51, 1TH 4:13, 1TH 4:14, 1TH 4:15, 2PET 3:4