Strong's #2837: koimao (pronounced koy-mah'-o)

from 2749; to put to sleep, i.e. (passively or reflexively) to slumber; figuratively, to decease:--(be a-, fall a-, fall on) sleep, be dead.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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koimaō

1) to cause to sleep, put to sleep

2) metaphorically

2a) to still, calm, quiet

2b) to fall asleep, to sleep

2c) to die

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: from G2749

Usage:

This word is used 18 times:

 

Matthew 27:52: "bodies of the saints which slept arose,"
Matthew 28:13: "and stole him away while we slept."
Luke 22:45: "his disciples, he found them sleeping for sorrow,"
John 11:11: "Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep."
John 11:12: "disciples, Lord, if he sleep, he shall do well."
Acts 7:60: "to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep."
Acts 12:6: "same night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers,"
Acts 13:36: "by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his"
1 Corinthians 7:39: "liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty"
1 Corinthians 11:30: "among you, and many sleep."
1 Corinthians 15:6: "but some are fallen asleep."
1 Corinthians 15:18: "Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished."
1 Corinthians 15:20: "the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept."
1 Corinthians 15:51: "a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,"
1 Thessalonians 4:13: "to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even"
1 Thessalonians 4:14: "and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God"
1 Thessalonians 4:15: "Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep."
2 Peter 3:4: "since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as"