κοίμησις, κοιμησως, ἡ, a reposing, taking rest: Joh_11:13 (cf. Winer's Grammar, § 59, 8a.); of death, Sir_46:19 Sir_48:13; a lying, reclining, Plato, conv., p. 183 a.

κοίμησις koimēsis 1x sleep; meton. rest, repose, Joh_11:13

** κοίμησις , -εως , ἡ , [in LXX : Sir_46:19 ; Sir_48:13 * ;] a reclining, resting: Joh_11:13 .†

κοίμησις [page 350] This NT ἅπ . εἰρ . ( Joh_11:18 ) is used of rest in death in Wόnsch AF 4 .30 (iii/A.D.) ὁρκίζω σε τὸν θεὸν τὸν τὴν κοίμησίν σοι δεδωρημένον καὶ ἀπολύσαντά σε ἀπὸ δ [εσμῶ ]ν τοῦ βίου . See also the inscr. to a Roman Jew, cited by Schόrer Geschichle ii. p. 441, ἐν εἰρήνῃ ἡ κοίμησίς σου , and Pelagia-Legenden p. 15 .16 τὴν κοίμησιν τοῦ ἁγίου Πελαγίου . For κοιμητήριον , sleeping-place, we may cite the early Syll 589 .48 (1st half iv/B.C.) ἐν δὲ τοῖ κοιμητηρίοι καθεύδειν χωρὶς μὲν τὸς ἄνδρας . . .. The word in the sense of grave is often thought to be exclusively Christian, but Roberts-Gardner (p. 513) quote two Attic inscrr. where the accompanying figures of a seven-branched candelabrum seem to indicate Jewish origin. The first of these, CIG IV. 9313 (= IG III. 2, 3545) runs Κοιμητήριον Εὐτυχίας τῆς μητρὸς Ἀθηνέου κὲ Θεονκτίστου . The Christian formula of dedicating τὸ κοιμητήριον ἕως ἀναστάσεως is seen at Thessalonica in ib. 9439, which Ramsay ( C. and B. ii. p. 495) dates about mid. iv/A.D.

κοίμησις κοίμησις, εως "a lying down to sleep", Plat. , NTest.

κοίμησις, -εως, ἡ [in LXX: Sir.46:19 48:13 * ;] a reclining, resting: Jhn.11:13.† (AS)