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asleep

Meaning of “asleep”

Sense 1: In a state of sleep. Sense 2: Figuratively, dead.

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16 occurrences16 verses11 booksKJV PCE

First occurrence: Judges 4:21

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1 Samuel 26:12
So David took the spear and the cruse of water from Saul’s bolster; and they gat them away, and no man saw it, nor knew it, neither awaked: for they were all asleep; because a deep sleep from the Lord was fallen upon them.
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1611 witness · 1 Samuel 26:12 · retained source text

So Dauid tooke the speare and the cruse of water from Sauls bolster, and they gate them away, and no man saw it, nor knew it, neither awaked: for they were all asleepe, because a deepe sleepe from the LORD was fallen vpon them.

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Dead; in a state of death. Sleeping; in a state of sleep; at rest.

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