Strong's numbers
κοιμάω (G2837)
koimáō
koy-mah'-o
from κεῖμαι; to put to sleep, i.e. (passively or reflexively) to slumber; figuratively, to decease:--(be a-, fall a-, fall on) sleep, be dead.
Abbott–Smith
κοιμάω, -ῶ, [in LXX chiefly for שׁכב;]
to lull to sleep, put to sleep. Mid and pass., to fall asleep (M, Pr., 162; M, Th., 1, 4, 13): Mt 28:13, Lk 22:45, Jo 11:12, Ac 12:6. Metaph, of death: Mt 27:52, Jo 11:11 Ac 7:60 13:36, I Co 7:39 11:30 15:6, 18, 20, 51, I Th 4:13-15, II Pe 3:4 (cf. Is 14:8 43:17, II Mac 12:45).†
SYN.: καθεύδω.
From G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922), in the public domain.
18 occurrences
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Matthew 27:52
And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,
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Matthew 28:13
Saying, Say ye, His disciples came by night, and stole him away while we slept.
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Luke 22:45
And when he rose up from prayer, and was come to his disciples, he found them sleeping for sorrow,
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John 11:11
These things said he: and after that he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep.
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John 11:12
Then said his disciples, Lord, if he sleep, he shall do well.
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Acts 7:60
And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep.
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Acts 12:6
And when Herod would have brought him forth, the same night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and the keepers before the door kept the prison.
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Acts 13:36
For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption:
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1 Corinthians 7:39
The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.
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1 Corinthians 11:30
For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.