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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)

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:4 -

Before they went to bed, the men of the city of Sodom, both young and old, the whole population, surrounded the house.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:32 -

“Come, let’s get our father to drink wine so that we can sleep with him and preserve our father’s line.”

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:33 -

So they got their father to drink wine that night, and the firstborn came and slept with her father; he did not know when she lay down or when she got up.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:34 -

The next day the firstborn said to the younger, “Look, I slept with my father last night. Let’s get him to drink wine again tonight so you can go sleep with him and we can preserve our father’s line.”

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:35 -

That night they again got their father to drink wine, and the younger went and slept with him; he did not know when she lay down or when she got up.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:54 -

Then he and the men with him ate and drank and spent the night.

When they got up in the morning, he said, “Send me to my master.”

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:10 -

Then Abimelech said, “What have you done to us? One of the people could easily have slept with your wife, and you would have brought guilt on us.”

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:11 -

He reached a certain place and spent the night there because the sun had set. He took one of the stones from the place, put it there at his head, and lay down in that place.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:15 -

But Leah replied to her, “Isn’t it enough that you have taken my husband? Now you also want to take my son’s mandrakes? ”

“Well then,” Rachel said, “he can sleep with you tonight in exchange for your son’s mandrakes.”

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:16 -

When Jacob came in from the field that evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, “You must come with me, for I have hired you with my son’s mandrakes.” So Jacob slept with her that night.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:54 -

Then Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain and invited his relatives to eat a meal. So they ate a meal and spent the night on the mountain.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:13 -

He spent the night there and took part of what he had brought with him as a gift for his brother Esau:

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:21 -

So the gift was sent on ahead of him while he remained in the camp that night.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:2 -

When Shechem ​— ​son of Hamor the Hivite, who was the region’s chieftain ​— ​saw her, he took her and raped her.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:7 -

Jacob’s sons returned from the field when they heard about the incident. They were deeply grieved and very angry, for Shechem had committed an outrage against Israel by raping Jacob’s daughter, and such a thing should not be done.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:22 -

While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his father’s concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard about it.

Jacob had twelve sons:

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:7 -

After some time his master’s wife looked longingly at Joseph and said, “Sleep with me.”

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:12 -

She grabbed him by his garment and said, “Sleep with me! ” But leaving his garment in her hand, he escaped and ran outside.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:14 -

she called her household servants. “Look,” she said to them, “my husband brought a Hebrew man to make fools of us. He came to me so he could sleep with me, and I screamed as loud as I could.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:17 -

Then she told him the same story: “The Hebrew slave you brought to us came to make a fool of me,

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:21 -

“When they had devoured them, you could not tell that they had devoured them; their appearance was as bad as it had been before. Then I woke up.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:30 -

“When I rest with my ancestors, carry me away from Egypt and bury me in their burial place.”

Joseph answered, “I will do what you have asked.”

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:9 -

“Judah is a young lion —

my son, you return from the kill.

He crouches; he lies down like a lion

or a lioness ​— ​who dares to rouse him?

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:16 -

“If a man seduces a virgin who is not engaged, and he sleeps with her, he must certainly pay the bridal price for her to be his wife.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:19 -

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

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:27 -

“For it is his only covering; it is the clothing for his body.[fn] What will he sleep in? And if he cries out to me, I will listen because I am gracious.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:18 -

“You must not offer the blood of my sacrifices with anything leavened. The fat of my festival offering must not remain until morning.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:25 -

“Do not present[fn] the blood for my sacrifice with anything leavened. The sacrifice of the Passover Festival must not remain until morning.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:47 -

“Whoever lies down in the house is to wash his clothes, and whoever eats in it is to wash his clothes.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:4 -

“Any bed the man with the discharge lies on will be unclean, and any furniture he sits on will be unclean.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:18 -

“If a man sleeps with a woman and has an emission of semen, both of them are to bathe with water, and they will remain unclean until evening.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:24 -

“If a man sleeps with her, and blood from her menstruation gets on him, he will be unclean for seven days, and every bed he lies on will become unclean.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:26 -

“Any bed she lies on during the days of her discharge will be like her bed during menstrual impurity; any furniture she sits on will be unclean as in her menstrual period.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:33 -

“a woman who is in her menstrual period; anyone who has a discharge, whether male or female; and a man who sleeps with a woman who is unclean.”

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:22 -

“You are not to sleep with a man as with a woman; it is detestable.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:13 -

“Do not oppress your neighbor or rob him. The wages due a hired worker must not remain with you until morning.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:20 -

“If a man has sexual intercourse with a woman who is a slave designated for another man, but she has not been redeemed or given her freedom, there must be punishment.[fn] They are not to be put to death, because she had not been freed.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:11 -

“If a man sleeps with his father’s wife, he has violated the intimacy that belongs to his father.[fn] Both of them must be put to death; their death is their own fault.[fn]

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:12 -

“If a man sleeps with his daughter-in-law, both of them must be put to death. They have acted perversely; their death is their own fault.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:13 -

“If a man sleeps with a man as with a woman, they have both committed a detestable act. They must be put to death; their death is their own fault.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:18 -

“If a man sleeps with a menstruating woman and has sexual intercourse with her, he has exposed the source of her flow, and she has uncovered the source of her blood. Both of them are to be cut off from their people.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:20 -

“If a man sleeps with his aunt, he has violated the intimacy that belongs to his uncle;[fn] they will bear their guilt and die childless.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:6 -

“I will give peace to the land, and you will lie down with nothing to frighten you. I will remove dangerous animals from the land, and no sword will pass through your land.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:13 -

“and sleeps with another,[fn] but it is concealed from her husband, and she is undetected, even though she has defiled herself, since there is no witness against her, and she wasn’t caught in the act;

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:19 -

“The priest will require the woman to take an oath and will say to her, ‘If no man has slept with you, if you have not gone astray and become defiled while under your husband’s authority, be unaffected by this bitter water that brings a curse.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:24 -

A people rise up like a lioness;

they rouse themselves like a lion.

They will not lie down until they devour the prey

and drink the blood of the slain.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:4 -

“No yeast is to be found anywhere in your territory for seven days, and none of the meat you sacrifice in the evening of the first day is to remain until morning.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:22 -

“If a man is discovered having sexual relations with another man’s wife, both the man who had sex with the woman and the woman must die. You must purge the evil from Israel.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:23 -

“If there is a young woman who is a virgin engaged to a man, and another man encounters her in the city and sleeps with her,

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:25 -

“But if the man encounters an engaged woman in the open country, and he seizes and rapes her, only the man who raped her must die.


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