'Asleep' in the Bible

A wife is bound for whatever time her husband lives; but if the husband be fallen asleep, she is free to be married to whom she will, only in the Lord.

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

After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep.

Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are 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,