Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
Is fallen asleep (kekoimhtai). Perfect passive indicative of koimaw, old verb to put to sleep. Common as a metaphor for death like our cemetery.
I go (poreuomai). Futuristic use of the present tense as in John 14:2.
That I may awake him out of sleep (ina ecupnisw auton). Purpose clause with ina and the first aorist active subjunctive of ecupnizw, a late compound (ec, upnov, sleep) for the older afupnizw, here only in the N.T. See Job 14:12 where also it occurs along with koimaomai.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing John 11:11:
John 11:3
John 11:7
Acts 13:36
1 Thessalonians 4:13
2 Peter 3:4
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