sleep

Greek Noun Male

ὕπνος, -ου, ὁ [in LXX for שֵׁנָה, חֲלוֹם, etc;] sleep: Mat.1:24, Luk.9:32, Jhn.11:13, Act.20:9; metaphorically, Rom.13:11. (AS)

sleep

Greek Noun Male

ὕπνος, ὁ, sleep, slumber, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; of the sleep of death, κοιμήσατο χάλκεον ὕ. [Refs 8th c.BC+] — Special phrases: I) of going to sleep, μιν ἐπήλυθε. ὕ. [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐν ὕπνῳ or ὕπνῳ πεσεῖν to fall a-sleep, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; οὐχ ὕπνῳ γ᾽ ἐνδόντα (so Badham for εὕδοντά) μ᾽ ἐξεγείρετε [Refs]; also ὕπνῳ δεδμημένος, δαμείς, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; νικώμενος, κρατηθεῖσ᾽, [Refs 5th c.BC+] I.2) of waking from sleep, ἐγεῖραί τινα ἐξ ὕπνου [Refs 8th c.BC+]: of the sleeper, ἀνόρουσε, ἔγρετο, ἐξ ὕ. [Refs 8th c.BC+] I.3) with Preps, when the plural also is not uncommon, ἐν ὕπνῳ in sleep, in a dream, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐν τοῖς ὕ.[Refs 5th c.BC+]; καθ᾽ ὕπνον ὄντα [Refs 5th c.BC+]; καθ᾽ ὕπνον, κατὰ τοὺς ὕπνους, [Refs 1st c.AD+]; περὶ πρῶτον ὕ. about one's first sleep, [Refs 5th c.BC+]: plural, dreams, ὕ. ἀγένητοι [Refs 1st c.BC+] II) Sleep, as a god, twinbrother of Death, [Refs 8th c.BC+], son of Night without father. [ῠ by nature, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; ῡ by position in Epic dialect, etc.] (Cf. Sanskrit svápati 'sleep', substantive svápnas 'sleep, dream'; Latin somnus, sopor, etc.)

Greek

Noun Masculine

sleep, i.e. (figuratively) spiritual torpor; sleep; from an obsolete primary (perhaps akin to g5259 (ὑπό) through the idea of subsilience)