Sleep With One's Fathers Definition

verb

To be buried together with one's forebears; hence, to die ; also, to be dead .

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Origin of Sleep With One's Fathers

  • of Biblical Hebrew SLEEP WITH ONES FATHERS SLEEP WITH ONES FATHERS שכב עם ־אב ‎ (wayyiškaḇ ʿim-ʾăḇōṯâw, literally “he slept with his fathers") (found, for example, in the Bible at 1 Kings 2:10); compare be gathered to one's fathers .

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