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Concordances
Nave Topical Bible
• Sleep
Thompson Chain Reference
• Sleep-Wakefulness
• Sleep
• Indolent Sleep
Dictionaries
Bridgeway Bible Dictionary
• Sleep
Baker's Evangelical Dictionary
• Sleep
CARM Theological Dictionary
• Soul Sleep
Holman Bible Dictionary
• Sleep
Hastings' NT Dictionary
• Sleep (2)
• Sleep
King James Dictionary
• Sleeping
• Sleep
Vines' Expository Dictionary
• Sleep
• Asleep, Sleep
Wilson's Bible Types
• Sleep (and Forms)
Webster Dictionary
• Sleeping
• Sleepful
• Sleep-Charged
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Watson's Theological Dictionary
• Sleep
Encyclopedias
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Sleep
• Sleeping-Sickness
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• Deep Sleep
• Sleep
• Sleep, Deep
McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Sleep
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
• Sleeping Beauty
Lexicons
• ܕ݁ܡܶܟ݂
• ܡܰܕ݂ܡܟ݂ܳܐ
• ܢܳܡ
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• ἐξυπνίζω
• ἔξυπνος
• καθεύδω
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• הָזָה
• יָשֵׁן , יָשֵׁן
• יָשֵׁן
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Apart from having its common meaning of physical rest, ‘sleep’ is used in the Bible as another word for physical death (1 Kings 2:10; Job 14:12; Jeremiah 51:39; Matthew 27:52; John 11:11-14; 1 Corinthians 11:30; 1 Corinthians 15:20; 1 Corinthians 15:51). This is because death is not permanent. One day all people will rise from death to meet the great judge of the universe and receive either his blessing or his punishment (Daniel 12:2; John 5:28-29).

Sleep is used also as another word for spiritual laziness, whether of non-Christians (Ephesians 5:14) or Christians (Romans 13:11). Christians must not be ill-disciplined or careless, as those are who live in the ‘night’ of spiritual darkness. They must be spiritually alert and watchful, as they now belong to the ‘day’ of spiritual life and light (Romans 13:11-14; 1 Thessalonians 5:4-8; cf. Matthew 25:1-13).