Definition

properly, to become awake, i.e. (by implication) to drop (off) in slumber

Etymology

from a compound of G575 (ἀπό) and G5258 (ὕπνος);

Word family

• ἀπό apó
• ὕπνος hýpnos

How the KJV renders it

• fall asleep

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.