ΚΑΤΑΚΟΙΜΗΘΗΝΑΙ, κατακοιμηθηναι
KATAKOIMĒTHĒNAI, katakoimēthēnai
Sounds Like: kah-tah-koy-mee-THEE-nay
Translations: to fall asleep, to sleep soundly, to rest
From the root: ΚΑΤΑΚΟΙΜΑΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This is a compound verb formed from the preposition κατά (kata, meaning 'down' or 'completely') and the verb κοιμάω (koimao, meaning 'to sleep'). It signifies falling into a deep or sound sleep, or to be completely at rest. It is often used in a literal sense of physical sleep, but can also metaphorically refer to death, as in 'to fall asleep in death'.
Inflection: Aorist, Passive, Infinitive
Strong’s number: G2650 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 11 — 3:34
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΚΑΤΑΚΟΙΜΑΩ.
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.
- ΚΑΤΑΚΟΙΜΑΩ — to fall asleep, to sleep, to lie down to sleep
- ΚΑΤΑΚΟΙΜΗΘΕΙΣ — having fallen asleep, having gone to sleep, having slept
- ΚΑΤΑΚΟΙΜΗΘΕΝΤΙ — having fallen asleep, having gone to sleep, to one who has fallen asleep
- ΚΑΤΑΚΟΙΜΩΜΕΝΩΝ — of those sleeping, of those fallen asleep, of those resting, of those lying down
- ΚΑΤΕΚΟΙΜΗΘΗ — fell asleep, slept, was laid to rest
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