BLB Count: 212 (search found 254 occurrences with all forms)
Definition: A primitive root; to lie down (for rest, sexual connection, decease or any other purpose): at all, cast down, (lover-)lay (self) (down), (make to) lie (down, down to sleep, still with), lodge, ravish, take rest, sleep, stay.
KJV Translation Breakdown:
"slept" 36x (14.2%) -- predominantly "slept with his fathers"
"And [lay]" 25x (9.8%)
"and lay" 11x (4.3%)
"lie" 11x (4.3%)
"lay" 11x (4.3%)
(115 unique translations total)
Death Usage ("slept with his fathers"): 1 Ki 2:10; 11:43; 14:20,31; 15:8,24; 16:6,28; 22:40,50; 2 Ki 8:24; 10:35; 13:9,13; 14:16,22,29; 15:7,22,38; 16:20; 20:21; 21:18; 24:6; 2 Chr 9:31; etc.
Key Death-as-Sleep Passage: Deut 31:16 ("thou shalt sleep with thy fathers"); Job 7:21; 14:12; Isa 14:8,18
Definition: From G2596 and heudo (to sleep); to lie down to rest, i.e. (by implication) to fall asleep (literally or figuratively).
KJV Translation Breakdown:
"asleep" 4x (17.4%)
"sleep" 4x (17.4%)
"sleepeth" 3x (13.0%)
"slept" 2x (8.7%)
"Sleep on" 2x (8.7%)
"sleeping" 2x (8.7%)
(12 unique translations total)
All Occurrences: Matt 8:24; 9:24; 13:25; 25:5; 26:40,43,45; Mark 4:27,38; 5:39; 13:36; 14:37,40; Luke 8:52; 22:46; Eph 5:14; 1 Thess 5:6,7,10
Death Usage: Matt 9:24 ("the maid is not dead, but sleepeth"); Mark 5:39; Luke 8:52; Eph 5:14 ("Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead"); 1 Thess 5:10
NOTE: Used for both literal sleep and figurative death-sleep. Jesus uses this word when declaring Jairus' daughter "not dead, but sleepeth."
Definition: A primitive root; properly, to be slack or languid, i.e. (by implication) sleep (figuratively, to die); also to grow old, stale or inveterate: old (store), remain long, (make to) sleep.
KJV Translation Breakdown:
"and sleep" 3x (15.0%)
"and slept" 2x (10.0%)
"sleep" 2x (10.0%)
(16 unique translations total)
Key Occurrences: Gen 2:21 (Adam's deep sleep); Judg 16:19 (Samson); 1 Ki 19:5 (Elijah); Job 3:13; Ps 3:5; 4:8; 121:4; Jer 51:39,57
Death Usage: Jer 51:39 ("they shall sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake"); Jer 51:57 (same); Job 3:13 ("I should have slept: then had I been at rest")
Definition: From H7290; a lethargy or (by implication) trance: deep sleep.
All 7 Occurrences:
Gen 2:21 -- "the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam"
Gen 15:12 -- "a deep sleep fell upon Abram"
1 Sam 26:12 -- "a deep sleep from the LORD was fallen upon them"
Job 4:13 -- "when deep sleep falleth on men"
Job 33:15 -- "when deep sleep falleth upon men"
Prov 19:15 -- "Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep"
Isa 29:10 -- "the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep"
NOTE: This is the supernatural, God-induced deep sleep. The creation sleep of Adam (Gen 2:21) is the archetype. Relevant because death is depicted as a God-induced sleep from which resurrection is the awakening.
Definition: A primitive root; to stun, i.e. stupefy (with sleep or death): (be fast a-, be in a deep, cast into a dead, that) sleep(-er, -eth).
All 7 Occurrences:
Judg 4:21 -- Sisera "was fast asleep" when Jael killed him
Ps 76:6 -- "the chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep"
Prov 10:5 -- "he that sleepeth in harvest"
Dan 8:18 -- "I was in a deep sleep on my face toward the ground"
Dan 10:9 -- "was I in a deep sleep on my face"
Jonah 1:5 -- Jonah "was fast asleep"
Jonah 1:6 -- "What meanest thou, O sleeper?"
NOTE: Literally means "to stun, stupefy." The phrase "cast into a dead sleep" (Ps 76:6) explicitly links this deep sleep to death. The definition itself says "stupefy (with sleep or death)."