'Asleep' in the Bible

He fell asleep and dreamed a second time: Seven heads of grain, plump and ripe, came up on one stalk.

Before the men fell asleep, she went up on the roof

Then she let him fall asleep on her lap and called a man to shave off the seven braids on his head. In this way, she made him helpless, and his strength left him.

That night, David and Abishai came to the troops, and Saul was lying there asleep in the inner circle of the camp with his spear stuck in the ground by his head. Abner and the troops were lying around him.

So David took the spear and the water jug by Saul’s head, and they went their way. No one saw them, no one knew, and no one woke up; they all remained asleep because a deep sleep from the Lord came over them.

She got up in the middle of the night and took my son from my side while your servant was asleep. She laid him at her breast, and she put her dead son in my arms.

Now I would certainly be lying down in peace;I would be asleep.Then I would be at rest

The captain approached him and said, “What are you doing sound asleep? Get up! Call to your god. Maybe this god will consider us, and we won’t perish.”

Since the groom was delayed, they all became drowsy and fell asleep.

He went in and said to them, “Why are you making a commotion and weeping? The child is not dead but asleep.”

and as they were sailing He fell asleep. Then a fierce windstorm came down on the lake; they were being swamped and were in danger.

Everyone was crying and mourning for her. But He said, “Stop crying, for she is not dead but asleep.”

He said this, and then He told them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I’m on My way to wake him up.”

Then the disciples said to Him, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will get well.”

Then he knelt down and cried out with a loud voice, “Lord, do not charge them with this sin!” And saying this, he fell asleep.

For David, after serving his own generation in God’s plan, fell asleep, was buried with his fathers, and decayed.

This is why many are sick and ill among you, and many have fallen asleep.

Then He appeared to over 500 brothers at one time;most of them are still alive,but some have fallen asleep.

Therefore, those who have fallen asleep in Christ have also perished.

But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.

Listen! I am telling you a mystery:We will not all fall asleep,but we will all be changed,

We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, concerning those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve like the rest, who have no hope.

Since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, in the same way God will bring with Him those who have fallen asleep through Jesus.

For we say this to you by a revelation from the Lord: We who are still alive at the Lord’s coming will certainly have no advantage over those who have fallen asleep.

who died for us, so that whether we are awake or asleep, we will live together with Him.

saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? Ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they have been since the beginning of creation.”