Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

κοίμησις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: κοίμησις κοίμησεως

Structure: κοιμησι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a lying down to sleep

Declension

Third declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • πᾶσ λόγοσ οὐχ ὑπερῇρεν αὐτόν, καὶ ἐν κοιμήσει ἐπροφήτευσε τὸ σῶμα αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 48:13)

Synonyms

  1. a lying down to sleep

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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