Definition

sleep, i.e. (figuratively) spiritual torpor

Etymology

from an obsolete primary (perhaps akin to G5259 (ὑπό) through the idea of subsilience);

Where the KJV renders it

• sleep

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.

What the first audience heard

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