This word, once good English, was used by the Bishops' Bible of 1568, and was transferred to AV at 2Sa 17:17. So Wyclif at Mt 9:24 'Go ye away, for the wenche is not dead, but slepith.'
Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz were staying at En-rogel, and a maidservant would go and tell them, and they would go and tell King David, for they could not be seen entering the city.
He said, "Leave; for the girl has not died, but is asleep." And they began laughing at Him.
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