Sleeping

1. Sleeping

• sleeping 6
• like a sleeper 1
• sleepers 1
• of sleepers of 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

• 1 Samuel 2
• 1 Kings 2
• Song of Solomon 2
• Psalms 1
• Daniel 1
• Hosea 1

6 books in all.

• To sleep (katheudō)
• To sleep (radam)

• 1 Samuel 26:7So David and Abishai came to the people by night: and, behold, Saul lay sleeping within the trench, and his spear stuck in the ground at his bolster: but Abner and the people lay round about him.
• 1 Samuel 26:12So David took the spear and the cruse of water from Saul’s bolster; and they gat them away, and no man saw it, nor knew it, neither awaked: for they were all asleep; because a deep sleep from the LORD was fallen upon them.
• 1 Kings 3:20And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while thine handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.
• 1 Kings 18:27And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud: for he is a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.
• Psalms 78:65Then the LORD awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.
• Song of Solomon 5:2I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

How the English word “sleeping” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.