noun · feminine
koimēsias
Strong’sG2838
repose, taking rest
stem koimēsi-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
** κοίμησις, -εως, ἡ,
[in LXX: Si 46:19 48:13*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2838 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkoy'-may-sis
sleeping, i.e. (by implication) repose
Fromfrom G2837;
King Jamestaking of rest.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
lying down to sleep, κοιμήσεις ἐπὶ θύραις NT+5th c.BC+
II the sleep of death, LXX+3rd c.AD+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | koimēsias | koimēsiais |
| object accusative | koimēsian | koimēsiain |
| direct address vocative | koimēsiar | koimēsiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | koimēsiau1×κοιμήσεως | koimēsiaiu |
| to, for dative | koimēsia | koimēsiai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
koimēsia is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
koimēsiau“taking rest”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
John 11:13“taking rest”… ekeinois de dokala hoti peri tau koimēsiau tou hupnou legatō.They thought that Jesus was talking about actual sleep, but He was speaking about the death of …