8 occurrences

'Asleep' in the Bible

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

Verse ConceptsDoing Things TwiceSeven Things

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

Verse ConceptsRoofRooftop

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.

Verse ConceptsContentious WomanBarbersBaldnessKneelingShavingTreacheryKneesSeven Body PartsLong HairNo Strength LeftHairvulnerabilitydreadlocks

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.

Verse ConceptsSoldiers

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.

Verse ConceptsSleep, Physical

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.

Verse ConceptsBreasts, Nursing MothersMidnightCorpses Of Other People

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

Verse ConceptsSleeping Peacefully

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.”

Verse ConceptsCaptainsNot DyingDeath AvertedWill God Pay Attention?Serving One's Own Gods

Bible Theasaurus

Asleep (65 instances)
Benumbed (2 instances)
Deceased (12 instances)
Departed (350 instances)
Sleeping (91 instances)

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