ΚΑΘΥΠΝΟΥΝ, καθυπνουν
KATHYPNOUN, kathypnoun
Sounds Like: kah-thyoop-NOON
Translations: to fall asleep, to sleep soundly, to be fast asleep, to be overcome with sleep
From the root: ΚΑΘΥΠΝΟΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This verb describes the action of falling into a deep sleep or being soundly asleep. It implies a state of being overcome by sleep, often to the point of unconsciousness or unawareness. It can be used in various tenses and moods to describe past, present, or future actions of sleeping deeply.
Inflection: Infinitive, Present, Active; or Indicative, Imperfect, Active, 3rd Person Plural
Strong’s number: G2727 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Aristeas
- Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:220
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΚΑΘΥΠΝΟΩ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΚΑΘΥΠΝΟΩ — to fall asleep, to be fast asleep, to sleep soundly
- ΚΑΘΥΠΝΩΚΟΤΑ — fallen asleep, having fallen asleep
- ΚΑΘΥΠΝΩΜΕΝΟΝ — having fallen asleep, being sound asleep, being asleep
- ΚΑΘΥΠΝΩΣΕΝ — fell asleep, slept soundly, was overcome by sleep
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