English Explanatory Dictionary

sleep with one's fathers

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

sleep with one's fathers sleeps with one's fathers sleeping with one's fathers slept with one's fathers

Etymology

Calque of Biblical Hebrew וַיִּשְׁכַּב עִם־אֲבֹתָיו (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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