Word

ἐντυλίσσω

entylíssō · G1794 · Greek · 3 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. to wrap, to bandage

    To enclose an object by winding something about or around it

    Examples

    Matthew 27:59 And Joseph took the body and wrapped it in a clean linen cloth,

    Luke 23:53 And he took it down and wrapped it in a linen cloth, and laid Him in a tomb cut into the rock, where no one had ever lain.

  2. to roll up, to make into a roll

    To cause something to be in the shape of a roll

    Examples

    John 20:7 and the face-cloth which had been on His head, not lying with the linen wrappings but folded up in a place by itself.

How it’s used In 4 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

3 occurrences in 3 groups

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

2 occurrences in 1 groups

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

With adverbsAdverbs

1 occurrences in 1 groups

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 2 words
ἑλίσσω helíssō · G1667 · to roll up, to make into a roll
Both verbs denote the action of rolling or winding something into a coiled or wrapped configuration, with ἐντυλίσσω emphasizing the wrapping or entwining aspect (wind up in) and ἑλίσσω the coiling or rolling aspect.
ἐνειλέω eneiléō · G1750 · to wrap, to bandage
Both denote wrapping or enveloping an object in cloth or similar material, with ἐντυλίσσω emphasizing the winding or rolling motion involved in the wrapping action, while ἐνειλέω focuses on the enveloping or enclosing result.
Semantic domains 2 entries
To wrap, to bandage79.118
This verb describes wrapping something, especially for burial, used of Joseph of Arimathea wrapping the body of Jesus in a clean linen cloth — "Joseph took the body and wrapped it in a clean linen cloth" (Matthew 27:59).
To roll up, to make into a roll79.120
It also describes folding or rolling a cloth into a compact form, used of the face-cloth from Jesus' burial found folded up in a place by itself — "the face-cloth which had been on His head, not lying with the linen wrappings but folded up in a place by itself" (John 20:7).
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon : 1 aorist ἐνετύλιξα; perfect passive participle ἐντετυλιγμενος; to roll in, wrap in:…
: 1 aorist ἐνετύλιξα; perfect passive participle ἐντετυλιγμενος; to roll in, wrap in: τινα σινδόνι, Mt 27:59 (ἐν σινδόνι Tr (ἐν) σινδόνι WH); Lk 23:53; Ev. Nicod. c. 11 at the end, to roll up, wrap together: passive Jn 20:7. (Aristophanes, Plutarch, 692; nub. 987; Athen. 3, p. 106f.)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

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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