KJV dictionary & concordance
Sense 1: Present-participial or verbal-noun form of sleep, meaning to rest in sleep. Sense 2: Figuratively, to lie in death.
Definition sources
First occurrence: 1 Samuel 26:7
Complete exact-word concordance
So David and Abishai came to the people by night: and, behold, Saul lay sleeping within the trench, and his spear stuck in the ground at his bolster: but Abner and the people lay round about him.
So Dauid and Abishai came to the people by night, and behold, Saul lay sleeping within the trench, and his speare stucke in the ground at his bolster: but Abner and the people lay round about him.
His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.
His watchmen are blinde: they are all ignorant, they are all dumbe dogs, they cannot barke; sleeping, lying downe, louing to slumber.
1611 marginal noteOr, dreaming or talking in their sleepe.
Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.
Lest comming suddenly, he finde you sleeping.
And he cometh, and findeth them sleeping, and saith unto Peter, Simon, sleepest thou? couldest not thou watch one hour?
And hee commeth, and findeth them sleeping, and saith vnto Peter, Simon, sleepest thou? Couldest not thou watch one houre?
And when he rose up from prayer, and was come to his disciples, he found them sleeping for sorrow,
And when he rose vp from prayer, and was come to his disciples, hee found them sleeping for sorrow,
And when Herod would have brought him forth, the same night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and the keepers before the door kept the prison.
And when Herode would haue brought him foorth, the same night Peter was sleeping betweene two Souldiers, bound with two chaines, and the Keepers before the doore kept the prison.
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