- Transliteration: Katheudo

- Phonetic: kath-yoo'-do

- Definition:

1. to fall asleep, drop off to sleep

2. to sleep

a. to sleep normally

b. euphemistically, to be dead

c. metaph.

1. to yield to sloth and sin

2. to be indifferent to one's salvation

- Origin: from G2596" class="dictionary-topic-link">G2596 and heudo (to sleep)

- TDNT entry: 10:11,4

- Part(s) of speech: Verb

- Strong's: From G2596" class="dictionary-topic-link">G2596 and εὕδω heudō (to sleep); to lie down to rest that is (by implication) to fall asleep (literally or figuratively): - (be a-) sleep.