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sleep

Meaning of “sleep”

Sense 1: Natural bodily rest with suspended waking activity; figuratively, inattention or inactivity; or death described as sleep. Sense 2: To rest in sleep; figuratively, to lie in death.

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82 occurrences72 verses26 booksKJV PCE

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First occurrence: Genesis 2:21

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1 Thessalonians 5:7
For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
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1611 witness · 1 Thessalonians 5:7 · retained source text

For they that sleepe, sleepe in the night, and they that bee drunken, are drunken in the night.

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