'Sleeping' in the Bible
So David and Abishai came to the people by night: and, behold, Saul lay sleeping within the place of the wagons, with his spear stuck in the ground at his head; and Abner and the people lay around him.
he said to them, "Make room, because the girl isn't dead, but sleeping." They were ridiculing him.
He came to the disciples, and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, "What, couldn't you watch with me for one hour?
He came again and found them sleeping, for their eyes were heavy.
He came and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, "Simon, are you sleeping? Couldn't you watch one hour?
Again he returned, and found them sleeping, for their eyes were very heavy, and they didn't know what to answer him.
All were weeping and mourning her, but he said, "Don't weep. She isn't dead, but sleeping."
When he rose up from his prayer, he came to the disciples, and found them sleeping because of grief,
The same night when Herod was about to bring him out, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains. Guards in front of the door kept the prison.