Bible Lexicons

Κοιμάομαι, ";sleep,"; is common, e.g. P Ryl II. 127.8 (A.D. 29) κοιμωμένου μου ἐπὶ τῆς θύρας, ";as I was sleeping at the door,"; P Oxy VI. 933.25 (late ii/A.D.) ἐποίησα δὲ καὶ τὸν νυκτοστράτηγον φ [ύ ]λακα κοιμᾶσθαι πρὸς τῇ οἰκίᾳ, ";I made the night-strategus sleep on guard at the house"; (Edd.). In P Giss I. 19.12 (ii/A.D.) a wife writes to an absent husband that she had gone to bed without food—ἄ [γ ]ευστος ἐκοιμώμην — so great was her anxiety regarding him. We may also cite the curious ostrakon-letter, Ostr 1157 (Thebes—ii/iii A.D.), in which certain taxgatherers give permission to an hetaera—τῇ ὑπογεγραμέν (ῃ) ἡμέρᾳ μεθ᾽ οὗ ἐὰν θέλῃς ἐνθάδε κοιμᾶσθαι (cf. Archiv vi. p. 220 n..1). A purely middle use of κοιμηθῆναι is found in P Goodsp Cairo 3.10 (iii/B.C.) ἡνίκα ἤμελλον κοιμηθῆναι ἔγραψα ἐπιστόλια β ̄ : on the other hand P Fay 110.13 (A.D. 94) ἵ [ν ]α τὰ πρόβατα ἐκεῖ κοιμηθῆι (";may be folded";) is a clear instance of the passive, as possibly in 1 Thessalonians 4:14, 1 Corinthians 15:18. In Mél. Nicole p. 181 Goodspeed gives a wooden tablet ";probably for school use,"; in which this distich is repeated several times—

ᾧ μὴ δέδωκεν ἡ τύχη κοιμωμένῳ

μάτην δραμεῖται κἂν ὑπὲρ Λάδαν δράμῃ.

The thought is parallel with that of Psa. 127꞉2 [MT Psalms 128:2] when read as in RV marg., ";so he giveth unto his beloved in sleep."; See also OGIS 383.43 (mid. i/B.C.) ἱεροθεσίου τοῦδε. . . ἐν ὧι. . . σῶμα μορφῆς ἐμῆς. . . εἰς τὸν ἄπειρον αἰῶνα κοιμήσεται, and such Christian inscrr. as IGSI 549.1 σὺν θεῷ. . ἐκοιμ [ήθη ] ή δούλη τοῦ [θεοῦ ] Σαβεῖνα, ib. 68.1 ἐκοιμήθη ἡ θεοκοίμητος Αἰγεία, and the striking inscr. of v/vi A.D. found on the Mount of Olives (Revue archéologique iv. 3 (1904), p. 141—cited by Radermacher Gr. p. 88)—

ἐνθάδε κεῖται ἡ δούλη καὶ νύμφη τοῦ Χριστοῦ

Σοφία ἡ διάκονος ἡ δευτέρα Φοίβη, κοιμηθεῖσα

ἐν εἰρήνῃ τῇ κ ̄α ̄ τοῦ Μαρτίου μηνός κτλ.

In contrast to this, for the general hopelessness of the pagan world in the presence of death, see such an inscr. as IGS1 929.13 κοιμᾶται τὸν αἰώνιον ὕπν (ον), ib,1879.11 εὐψυχῶ. . ὅστις οὐκ ἤμην καὶ ἐγενόμην, οὐκ εἰμὶ καὶ οὐ λυποῦμαι, and the other citations in Thess, p. 56. The active is found in the illiterate BGU III. 775.8 (ii/A.D.) πρὸς δύο ἡμέρας ἐκύ (= οί)μησα ἐκεῖ : cf. Genesis 24:11, and for the form κοιμίζω, ";cause to rest,"; which is read here in א, and which survives in MGr, cf. a fragment of an Anthology, P Tebt I. 1.13 f. (c. B.C. 100)—

ἐρῶντος ψυχὴ καὶ λαμπάδιον ὑπ᾽ ἀνέμου

ποτὲ μὲν ἀνήφθη ποτὲ δὲ πάλι κοιμίζεται.

";A love’s spirit, as a torch fanned by the wind, is now ablaze, and now again dies away"; (Edd.)

 

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