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Lexicon :: Strong's G2837 - koimaō

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κοιμάω
Transliteration
koimaō (Key)
Pronunciation
koy-mah'-o
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
mGNT
18x in 12 unique form(s) TR
18x in 12 unique form(s) LXX
185x in 30 unique form(s)
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Strong’s Definitions

κοιμάω koimáō, koy-mah'-o; from G2749; to put to sleep, i.e. (passively or reflexively) to slumber; figuratively, to decease:—(be a-, fall a-, fall on) sleep, be dead.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 18x

The KJV translates Strong's G2837 in the following manner: sleep (10x), fall asleep (4x), be asleep (2x), fall on sleep (1x), be dead (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 18x
The KJV translates Strong's G2837 in the following manner: sleep (10x), fall asleep (4x), be asleep (2x), fall on sleep (1x), be dead (1x).

  1. to cause to sleep, put to sleep

  2. metaph.

    1. to still, calm, quiet

    2. to fall asleep, to sleep

    3. to die

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
κοιμάω koimáō, koy-mah'-o; from G2749; to put to sleep, i.e. (passively or reflexively) to slumber; figuratively, to decease:—(be a-, fall a-, fall on) sleep, be dead.
STRONGS G2837:
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, Matthew 28:13; Luke 22:45; John 11:12; Acts 12:6; the Sept. for שָׁכַב. metaphorically, and euphemistically equivalent to to die (cf. English to fall asleep): John 11:11; Acts 7:60; Acts 13:36; 1 Corinthians 7:39; 1 Corinthians 11:30; 1 Corinthians 15:6, 51 (cf. Winers Grammar, 555 (517); Buttmann, 121 (106) note); 2 Peter 3:4; οἱ κοιμώμενοι, κεκοιμημένοι, κοιμηθέντες, equivalent to the dead: Matthew 27:52; 1 Corinthians 15:20; 1 Thessalonians 4:13-15; with ἐν Χριστῷ added (see ἐν, I. 6 b., p. 211b), 1 Corinthians 15:18; in the same sense Isaiah 14:8; Isaiah 43:17; 1 Kings 11:43; 2 Macc. 12:45; Homer, Iliad 11, 241; Sophocles Electr. 509.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

1 Kings
2; 11:43
Isaiah
14:8; 43:17
Matthew
27:52; 28:13
Luke
22:45
John
11:11; 11:12
Acts
7:60; 12:6; 13:36
1 Corinthians
7:39; 11:30; 15:6; 15:18; 15:20; 15:51
1 Thessalonians
4:13; 4:14; 4:15
2 Peter
3:4

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2837 matches the Greek κοιμάω (koimaō),
which occurs 185 times in 172 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 4 (Gen 19:4–Deu 22:25)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:4 - Before they lay down, the men of the city—the men of Sodom—surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people [fn]from every quarter;

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:32

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:32 - “Come, let’s make our father drink wine, and let’s sleep with him so that we may keep [fn]our family alive through our father.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:33

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:33 - So they made their father drink wine that night, and the firstborn went in and slept with her father; and he did not know when she lay down or got up.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:34

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:34 - On the following day, the firstborn said to the younger, “Look, I slept last night with my father; let’s make him drink wine tonight too, then you go in and sleep with him, so that we may keep [fn]our family alive through our father.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:35 - So they had their father drink wine that night too, and the younger got up and slept with him; and he did not know when she lay down or got up.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:54

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:54 - Then he and the men who were with him ate and drank and spent the night. When they got up in the morning, he said, “Send me away to my master.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:10 - And Abimelech said, “What is this that you have done to us? One of the people might easily have slept with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:11 - And he [fn]happened upon a [fn]particular place and spent the night there, because the sun had set; and he took one of the stones of the place and made it a support for his head, and lay down in that place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:15 - But she said to her, “Is it a small matter for you to take my husband? And would you take my son’s mandrakes also?” So Rachel said, “Therefore he may sleep with you tonight in return for your son’s mandrakes.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:16 - When Jacob came in from the field in the evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, “You must have relations with me, for I have indeed hired you with my son’s mandrakes.” So he slept with her that night.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:54 - Then Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain, and called his relatives to [fn]the meal; and they ate [fn]the meal and spent the night on the mountain.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:13 -

So he spent the night there. Then he [fn]selected from what [fn]he had with him a gift for his brother Esau:

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:21 - So the gift passed on ahead of him, while he himself spent that night in the camp.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:2 - When Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her, he took her and lay with her and raped her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:7 - Now the sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard about it; and the men were grieved, and they were very angry because he had done a [fn]disgraceful thing in Israel by [fn]sleeping with Jacob’s daughter, for such a thing ought not to be done.

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And it came about, while Israel was living in that land, that Reuben went and slept with his father’s concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard about it.

Now there were twelve sons of Jacob—

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:7 - And it came about after these events that his master’s wife [fn]had her eyes on Joseph, and she said, “Sleep with me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 39:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:12 - So she grabbed him by his garment, saying, “Sleep with me!” But he left his garment in her hand and fled, and went outside.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 39:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:14 - she called to the men of her household and said to them, “See, he has brought in a [fn]Hebrew to us to make fun of us; he came in to me to sleep with me, and I [fn]screamed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 39:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:17 - Then she spoke to him [fn]with these [fn]words: “The Hebrew slave, whom you brought to us, came in to me to make fun of me;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:21 - “Yet when they had [fn]devoured them, it could not be [fn]detected that they had [fn]devoured them, [fn]for they were just as ugly as [fn]before. Then I awoke.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:30 - but when I [fn]lie down with my fathers, you shall carry me out of Egypt and bury me in their burial place.” And he said, “I will do as you have said.”

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“Judah is a lion’s cub;

From the prey, my son, you have gone up.

He [fn]crouches, he lies down as a lion,

And as a [fn]lion, who [fn]dares to stir him up?

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“If a man seduces a virgin who is not [fn]betrothed and sleeps with her, he must pay a [fn]dowry for her to be his wife.

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“Whoever has sexual intercourse with an animal must be put to death.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 22:27

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:27 - for that is his only covering; it is his cloak for his [fn]body. What else is he to sleep in? And it will come about that when he cries out to Me, I will listen to him, for I am gracious.

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“You shall not offer the blood of My sacrifice with leavened bread; nor is the fat of My [fn]feast to remain overnight until morning.

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“You shall not [fn]offer the blood of My sacrifice with leavened bread, nor is the sacrifice of the Feast of the Passover to [fn]be left over until morning.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 14:47

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:47 - “Likewise, whoever lies down in the house shall wash his clothes, and whoever eats in the house shall wash his clothes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 15:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:4 - ‘Every bed on which the man with the discharge lies becomes unclean, and everything on which he sits becomes unclean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 15:18

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:18 - ‘If a man sleeps with a woman so that there is a seminal emission, they shall both bathe in water and be unclean until evening.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 15:24

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:24 - ‘If a man actually sleeps with her so that her menstrual impurity is on him, he shall be unclean seven days, and every bed on which he lies shall be unclean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:26 - ‘Any bed on which she lies all the days of her discharge shall be to her like [fn]her bed at menstruation; and every object on which she sits shall be unclean, like [fn]her uncleanness at that time.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 15:33

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:33 - and for the woman who is ill because of menstrual impurity, and for the one who has a discharge, whether a male or a female, or a man who sleeps with an unclean woman.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 18:22

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:22 - ‘You shall not sleep with a male as [fn]one sleeps with a female; it is an abomination.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:13 -

‘You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him. The wages of a hired worker are not to remain with you all night until morning.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:20 -

‘Now if a man has sexual relations with a woman who is a slave acquired for another man, but who has in no way been redeemed nor given her freedom, there shall be punishment; they shall not, however, be put to death, because she was not free.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 20:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:11 - ‘If there is a man who sleeps with his father’s wife, he has uncovered his father’s nakedness. Both of them must be put to death, they have brought their [fn]own deaths upon themselves.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 20:12

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:12 - ‘If there is a man who sleeps with his daughter-in-law, both of them must be put to death. They have committed [fn]incest, and have brought their [fn]own deaths upon themselves.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 20:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:13 - ‘If there is a man who sleeps with a male as those who sleep with a woman, both of them have committed a detestable act; they must be put to death. They have brought their [fn]own deaths upon themselves.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 20:18

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:18 - ‘If there is a man who sleeps with a menstruous woman and uncovers her nakedness, he has exposed her flow, and she has uncovered the flow of her blood; so both of them shall be cut off from among their people.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 20:20

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:20 - ‘If there is a man who sleeps with his uncle’s wife, he has uncovered his uncle’s nakedness; they will bear their sin. They will die childless.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:6 - ‘I shall also grant peace in the land, so that you may lie down, with no one to make you afraid. I shall also eliminate harmful animals from the land, and no sword will pass through your land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:13 - and a man has sexual relations with her and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband and she remains undiscovered, although she has defiled herself, and there is no witness against her and she has not been caught in the act,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:19 - ‘And the priest shall have her take an oath and shall say to the woman, “If no man has had sexual relations with you and if you have not gone astray into uncleanness, as you are under the authority of your husband, be [fn]immune to this water of bitterness that brings a curse;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:24 -

“Behold, a people rises like a lioness,

And like a lion it raises itself;

It will not lie down until it devours the prey,

And drinks the blood of those slain.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 16:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:4 - “For seven days no leaven shall be seen with you in your entire territory, and none of the meat which you sacrifice on the evening of the first day shall be left overnight until the morning.

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“If a man is found sleeping with a married woman, then both of them shall die, the man who slept with the woman, and the woman; so you shall eliminate the evil from Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:23 -

“If there is a girl who is a virgin [fn]betrothed to a man, and another man finds her in the city and sleeps with her,

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“But if the man finds the girl who is betrothed in the field, and the man seizes her and [fn]rapes her, then only the man who [fn]raped her shall die.


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