Definition
From Mounce's Concise Greek-English Dictionary
Strong's Definition
sleep, i.e. (figuratively) spiritual torpor
Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary
sleep, Mt. 1:24; Lk. 9:32; Jn. 11:13; Acts 20:9; met. spiritual sleep, religious slumber, Rom. 13:11*
Translated in KJV as
sleep
Etymology
from an obsolete primary (perhaps akin to G5259 (ὑπό) through the idea of subsilience);
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