ἐνταφιάζω
entaphiázō · G1779 · Greek · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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to prepare for burial, preparation for burial
To prepare a body for burial
ExamplesMatthew 26:12 “For when she poured this perfume on My body, she did it to prepare Me for burial.
John 19:40 So they took the body of Jesus and bound it in linen wrappings with the spices, as is the burial custom of the Jews.
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- Not stated (infinitive) 2
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἐγώI, we 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- πρόςto, toward, with 2
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- ἐντυλίσσω entylíssō · G1794 · to wrap, to bandage, to roll up
- While ἐντυλίσσω is the more general term for wrapping something (including a body in burial cloths, as in Matt 27:59), ἐνταφιάζω is the more specific term that emphasizes the full preparation for burial including anointing with spices; both can describe wrapping a body for burial but ἐνταφιάζω carries the fuller burial-preparation sense.
In the other Testament 1 word
- חָנַט chânaṭ · H2590 · to bring forth (fruits), to produce (fruits), to embalm
- The Hebrew verb חָנַט refers to embalming or the preparation of a body with spices for burial, the direct conceptual equivalent of the Greek ἐνταφιάζω which describes wrapping/preparing a body for interment with burial cloths and spices.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- To prepare for burial, preparation for burial52.6
- This verb describes the act of preparing a body for burial, used of Jesus' interpretation of the woman's anointing of Him with perfume as preparation for His burial — "when she poured this perfume on My body, she did it to prepare Me for burial" (Matthew 26:12), and of Jesus' body being bound in linen wrappings with spices according to Jewish burial custom — "they took the body of Jesus and bound it in linen wrappings with the spices, as is the burial custom of the Jews" (John 19:40).
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon 1 aorist infinitive ἐνταφιάσαι; to see to τά ἐνταφια (from ἐν and τάφος), i. e. to…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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