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Brown-Driver-Briggs /Thayer Dictionary - κοιμάω
κοιμάω
G2837
Transliteration: koimáō
Pronunciation: koy-mah'-o
Definition: sleep
- Original: κοιμάω - Transliteration: Koimao - Phonetic: koy-mah'-o
- Definition:
1. to cause to sleep, put to sleep
2. metaph.
a. to still, calm, quiet
b. to fall asleep, to sleep
c. to die
- Origin: from G2749" class="dictionary-topic-link">G2749 - TDNT entry: None - Part(s) of speech: Verb - Strong's: From G2749" class="dictionary-topic-link">G2749; to put to sleep that is (passively or reflexively) to slumber; figuratively to decease: - (be a- fall a- fall on) sleep be dead.