koimaō · sleep, fall asleep

What it means

koimaō (κοιμάω) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “sleep, fall asleep”.

Sleep; also die.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To fall into sleep, close one's eyes to rest.
2. To die, like drifting off to rest.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• fell asleep ×4
• have fallen asleep ×4
• sleeping ×4
• has fallen asleep ×2
• dies ×1
• fall asleep ×1
• sleep ×1
• who had fallen asleep ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×2
• Luke×1
• John×2
• Acts×3
• 1 Corinthians×6
• 1 Thessalonians×3
• 2 Peter×1

• Matthew 27:52

  and the tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised;

• Matthew 28:13

  saying, “Say, ‘His disciples came by night and stole him while we were sleeping.’

• Luke 22:45

  And rising from prayer, he came to the disciples and found them sleeping from sorrow.

• John 11:11

  He said these things, and after this he says to them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going to wake him up.”

• John 11:12

  So the disciples said to him, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will get well.”

• Acts 7:60

  And falling on his knees he cried out with a loud voice, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them.” And having said this, he fell asleep.

• Acts 12:6

  And when Herod was about to bring him out, on that night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and guards before the door were keeping watch over the prison.

• Acts 13:36

  For David, after serving the purpose of God in his own generation, fell asleep and was added to his fathers and saw decay;

• 1 Corinthians 7:39

  A wife is bound for as long a time as her husband lives; but if the husband dies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord.

• 1 Corinthians 11:30

  For this reason many among you are weak and sick, and a good number sleep.

• 1 Corinthians 15:6

  then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at one time, of whom most remain until now, but some have fallen asleep;

• 1 Corinthians 15:18

  Then also those who fell asleep in the Messiah perished.

• 1 Corinthians 15:20

  But now the Messiah has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.

• 1 Corinthians 15:51

  Look, I tell you a mystery: we will not all fall asleep, but we will all be changed,

• 1 Thessalonians 4:13

  But we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, about those who are sleeping, so that you may not grieve as also the rest do who have no hope.

• 1 Thessalonians 4:14

  For if we believe that Jesus died and rose, so also God will bring with him, through Jesus, those who have fallen asleep.

• 1 Thessalonians 4:15

  For this we tell you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep.

• 2 Peter 3:4

  and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation.