G2837
κοιμάω
to sleep
κοιμάω, -ῶ [in LXX chiefly for שָׁכַב ;] to lull to sleep, put to sleep. Mid and pass., to fall asleep (M, Pr., 162; M, Th., 1, 4, 13): Mat.28:13, Luk.22:45, Jhn.11:12, Act.12:6. Metaph, of death: Mat.27:52, Jhn.11:11 Act.7:60 13:36, 1Co.7:39 11:30 15:6 15:18 15:20 15:51, 1Th.4:13-15, 2Pe.3:4 (cf. Isa.14:8 43:17, 2Ma.12:45).† SYN.: καθεύδω (AS)
The KJV translates G2837 in the following manner:
asleep (12x), sleep (10x), slept (6x), sleeping (4x), dead (2x), shall (2x), sleepeth (2x), while (2x)
Full Thayer's lexicon entry
κοιμάω — koimáō
κοιμάω, κοίμω: passive, present κοιμάομαι. κοιμωμαι; perfect κεκοίμημαι (cf. Winer's Grammar, 274 (257)); 1 aorist ἐκοιμήθην; 1 future κοιμηθήσομαι; (akin to κεῖμαι; Curtius, § 45); to cause to sleep, put to sleep (Homer, et al.); metaphorically, to still, calm, quiet, (Homer, Aeschylus, Plato); passive to sleep, fall asleep: properly, Mat 28:13; Luk 22:45; Joh 11:12; Act 12:6; the Sept. for שָׁכַב. metaphorically, and euphemistically equivalent to to die (cf. English to fall asleep): Joh 11:11; Act 7:60; Act 13:36; 1Co 7:39; 1Co 11:30; 1Co 15:6; 1Co 15:51 (cf. Winers Grammar, 555 (517); Buttmann, 121 (106) note); 2Pe 3:4; οἱ κοιμώμενοι, κεκοιμημένοι, κοιμηθέντες, equivalent to the dead: Mat 27:52; 1Co 15:20; 1Th 4:13-15; with ἐν Χριστῷ added (see ἐν, I. 6 b., p. 211b), 1Co 15:18; in the same sense Isa 14:8; Isa 43:17; 1Ki 11:43; 2Ma 12:45; Homer, Iliad 11, 241; Sophocles Electr. 509.
18 occurrences
Matthew (2), Luke (1), John (2), Acts (3), I Corinthians (6), I Thessalonians (3), II Peter (1)