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Bier, coffin

Human-made Things in the Bible

The bier was a board on which a body was carried to its place of burial, and the coffin was a box in which a body was placed for burial.

Pictures

Stone coffins or ossuaries in the garden of Dominus Flevit on the Mount of Olives
Stone coffins or ossuaries in the garden of Dominus Flevit on the Mount of Olives© Deror Avi, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

In the Bible

The Hebrew and Greek words for it, and every verse where each is used

אֲרוֹן ’aron · 1 verse

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מִטָּה mitah · 1 verse

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σορός soros · 1 verse

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Also in Burial and mourning

Tomb, grave142 versesBurial mound1 verseSackcloth, mourning clothes58 verses

Sources

Plants and Trees in the Bible, Animals in the Bible and Human-made Things in the Bible © United Bible Societies, 2025 (adapted from Each According to its Kind: Plants and Trees in the Bible by Robert Koops, All Creatures Great and Small: Living Things in the Bible by Edward R. Hope, and The Works of Their Hands: Man-made Things in the Bible by Ray Pritz), CC BY-SA 4.0; adapted for eRhema