Definition

to be sleepless, i.e. keep awake

Etymology

ultimately from G1 (Α) (as negative particle) and G5258 (ὕπνος);

Word family

• Α A
• ὕπνος hýpnos

How the KJV renders it

• watch

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.