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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
184x 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 27 times in 23 verses in 'Gen' in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:4 - But before they retired for the night, all the men of Sodom, young and old, came from all over the city and surrounded the house.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:32

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:32 - Come, let’s get him drunk with wine, and then we will have sex with him. That way we will preserve our family line through our father.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:33

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:33 - So that night they got him drunk with wine, and the older daughter went in and had intercourse with her father. He was unaware of her lying down or getting up again.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:34

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:34 - The next morning the older daughter said to her younger sister, “I had sex with our father last night. Let’s get him drunk with wine again tonight, and you go in and have sex with him. That way we will preserve our family line through our father.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:35

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:35 - So that night they got him drunk with wine again, and the younger daughter went in and had intercourse with him. As before, he was unaware of her lying down or getting up again.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:54

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:54 - Then they ate their meal, and the servant and the men with him stayed there overnight.
But early the next morning, Abraham’s servant said, “Send me back to my master.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:10 - “How could you do this to us?” Abimelech exclaimed. “One of my people might easily have taken your wife and slept with her, and you would have made us guilty of great sin.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 28:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:11 - At sundown he arrived at a good place to set up camp and stopped there for the night. Jacob found a stone to rest his head against and lay down to sleep.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:15 - But Leah angrily replied, “Wasn’t it enough that you stole my husband? Now will you steal my son’s mandrakes, too?”
Rachel answered, “I will let Jacob sleep with you tonight if you give me some of the mandrakes.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:16 - So that evening, as Jacob was coming home from the fields, Leah went out to meet him. “You must come and sleep with me tonight!” she said. “I have paid for you with some mandrakes that my son found.” So that night he slept with Leah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:54

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:54 - Then Jacob offered a sacrifice to God there on the mountain and invited everyone to a covenant feast. After they had eaten, they spent the night on the mountain.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 32:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:13 - Jacob stayed where he was for the night. Then he selected these gifts from his possessions to present to his brother, Esau:

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 32:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:21 - So the gifts were sent on ahead, while Jacob himself spent that night in the camp.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 34:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:2 - But when the local prince, Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, saw Dinah, he seized her and raped her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 34:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:7 - Meanwhile, Jacob’s sons had come in from the field as soon as they heard what had happened. They were shocked and furious that their sister had been raped. Shechem had done a disgraceful thing against Jacob’s family,[fn] something that should never be done.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 35:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:22 - While he was living there, Reuben had intercourse with Bilhah, his father’s concubine, and Jacob soon heard about it.
These are the names of the twelve sons of Jacob:

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 39:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:7 - and Potiphar’s wife soon began to look at him lustfully. “Come and sleep with me,” she demanded.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 39:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:12 - She came and grabbed him by his cloak, demanding, “Come on, sleep with me!” Joseph tore himself away, but he left his cloak in her hand as he ran from the house.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 39:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:14 - she called out to her servants. Soon all the men came running. “Look!” she said. “My husband has brought this Hebrew slave here to make fools of us! He came into my room to rape me, but I screamed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 39:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:17 - Then she told him her story. “That Hebrew slave you’ve brought into our house tried to come in and fool around with me,” she said.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:21 - But afterward you wouldn’t have known it, for they were still as thin and scrawny as before! Then I woke up.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 47:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:30 - When I die, please take my body out of Egypt and bury me with my ancestors.”
So Joseph promised, “I will do as you ask.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 49:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:9 - Judah, my son, is a young lion
that has finished eating its prey.
Like a lion he crouches and lies down;
like a lioness—who dares to rouse him?
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