asleep
Webster 1828
ASLEE'P, adjective or adverb [a and sleep.]1. sleeping; in a state of sleep; at rest.Sisera was fast asleep Judges 4:21.2. To a state of sleep; as to fall asleep 3. Dead; in a state of death.Concerning them who are asleep sorrow not. 1 Thessalonians 4:13.4. To death.For since the fathers fell asleep all things continue. 2 Peter 3:4