Definition

to put to sleep, i.e. (passively or reflexively) to slumber; figuratively, to decease

Etymology

from G2749 (κεῖμαι);

Word family

• κεῖμαι keîmai

How the KJV renders it

• (be a-
• fall a-
• fall on) sleep
• be dead

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.