'Sleeping' in the Bible
And behold, Yahweh [was] standing beside him, and he said, "I [am] Yahweh, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac. The ground on which you [were] sleeping I will give to you and to your descendants.
So David took the spear and the jar of water from [near] Saul's head, and they went [away]. {No one saw, no one knew, and no one awakened}, for all of them [were] sleeping because a deep sleep of Yahweh had fallen upon them.
And many from [those] sleeping {in the dusty ground} will awake, some to {everlasting life} and some to disgrace and {everlasting contempt}.
Your shepherds are sleeping, king of Assyria! Your nobles slumber. Your people are scattered on the mountains; no one can gather them.
he said, "Go away, because the girl is not dead, but is sleeping." And they ridiculed him.
But while his people were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed darnel in the midst of the wheat and went away.
And he came to the disciples and found them sleeping, and he said to Peter, "So, were you not able to stay awake with me one hour?
And he came again [and] found them sleeping, {for they could not keep their eyes open}.
Then he came to the disciples and said to them, "Are you still sleeping and resting? Behold, the hour is near, and the Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of sinners.
telling [them], "Say 'His disciples came during the night [and] stole him [while] we were sleeping.'
And he was in the stern sleeping on the cushion, and they woke him up and said to him, "Teacher, is it not a concern to you that we are perishing?"
And [when he] entered, he said to them, "Why are you agitated and weeping? The child is not dead, but is sleeping."
And he came and found them sleeping, and he said to Peter, "Simon, are you sleeping? Were you not able to stay awake one hour?
And again he came [and] found them sleeping, {for they could not keep their eyes open}, and they did not know what to reply to him.
And he came the third [time] and said to them, "Are you still sleeping and resting? It is enough! The hour has come. Behold, the Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of sinners.
And they were all weeping and mourning for her, but he said, "Do not weep! For she is not dead, but is sleeping."
And [when he] got up from the prayer [and] came to the disciples, he found them sleeping from sorrow,
and he said to them, "Why are you sleeping? Get up [and] pray that you will not enter into temptation!"
Now when Herod was about to bring him [out], on that [very] night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and guards before the door were watching the prison.