Strong's #2518: katheudo (pronounced kath-yoo'-do)
from 2596 and heudo (to sleep); to lie down to rest, i.e. (by implication) to fall asleep (literally or figuratively):--(be a-)sleep.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon:
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katheudō
1) to fall asleep, drop off to sleep
2) to sleep
2a) to sleep normally
2b) euphemistically, to be dead
2c) metaphorically
2c1) to yield to sloth and sin
2c2) to be indifferent to one' s salvation
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: from G2596 and heudo (to sleep)
Citing in TDNT: 3:431, 384
Usage:
This word is used 22 times:
Matthew 8:24: "waves: but he was asleep."
Matthew 9:24: "maid is not dead, but sleepeth. And they laughed him to scorn."
Matthew 13:25: "But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed"
Matthew 25:5: "they all slumbered and slept."
Matthew 26:40: "and findeth them asleep, and saith unto Peter, What,"
Matthew 26:43: "he came and found them asleep again: for their eyes"
Matthew 26:45: "and saith unto them, Sleep on now, and take your rest: behold,"
Mark 4:27: "And should sleep, and rise night and day, and"
Mark 4:38: "in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow: and they awake"
Mark 5:39: "damsel is not dead, but sleepeth."
Mark 13:36: "suddenly he find you sleeping."
Mark 14:37: "and findeth them sleeping, and saith unto Peter, Simon,"
Mark 14:37: "saith unto Peter, Simon, sleepest thou? couldest not thou watch one"
Mark 14:40: "when he returned, he found them asleep again, (for their eyes"
Mark 14:41: "and saith unto them, Sleep on now, and take your rest; it is enough,"
Luke 8:52: "not; she is not dead, but sleepeth."
Luke 22:46: "said unto them, Why sleep ye? rise and pray, lest ye enter"
Ephesians 5:14: "Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the"
1 Thessalonians 5:6: "Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but"
1 Thessalonians 5:7: "For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night."
1 Thessalonians 5:7: "For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night."
1 Thessalonians 5:10: "whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him."
