Asleep

Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary · Matthew George Easton, Noah Webster

Asleep - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

ASLEE'P, a. or adv. [a and sleep.]

1. sleeping; in a state of sleep; at rest.

Sisera was fast asleep. Judg 4.

2. To a state of sleep; as to fall asleep.

3. Dead; in a state of death.

Concerning them who are asleep, sorrow not. 1 Th 4.

4. To death.

For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue. 2 Pet 3.

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Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)

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