sleep with one's fathers

短语

词形变化

sleeping with one's fathers sleeps with one's fathers 三单 sleeps with one's fathers slept with one's fathers sleeping with one's fathers 现在分词 slept with one's fathers 过去式 slept with one's fathers 过去分词

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

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

    过时 文学 废旧 宗教

词源

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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