Acts 12:7

ἐπέστη : often as here with the notion of coming suddenly, in classical Greek it is often used of dreams, as in Homer; or of the coming of heavenly visitors, very frequent in Luke, and with the same force as here, Friedrich, pp. 7 and 87, and almost always in second aorist, see also Plummer on Luke 2:9. οἰκήματι : only here in N.T., used in Wis 13:15 (and perhaps in Tob 2:4), but not in same sense. Dem. and Thuc. use it for a prison: R.V. “the cell,” lit [249], the chamber. πατάξας δὲ τὴν πλευρὰν : to rouse him, an indication of the sound and quiet sleep which, the prisoner slept in spite of the fateful morrow (so Weiss); cf. Acts 7:24, and Acts 7:33).

[249] literal, literally.