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- Biblical Hebrew · calque ofוַיִּשְׁכַּב עִם־אֲבֹתָיו
- English todaysleep with one's fathers
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.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.