Strong’s definition
to put to sleep, i.e. (passively or reflexively) to slumber; figuratively, to decease
KJV gloss list in the source
(be a-, fall a-, fall on) sleep, be dead
Derivation recorded by Strong
from G2749 (κεῖμαι);
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