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Sleep with one's fathers

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To be buried together with one's forebears; hence, to die; also, to be dead. dated, literary, obsolete

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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