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.
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