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σορός

sorós · G4673 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. bier

    A stretcher or plank used for carrying a corpse to a place of burial

    Examples

    Luke 7:14 And He came up and touched the coffin; and the bearers came to a halt. And He said, “Young man, I say to you, arise!”

How it’s used In 1 role

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 2 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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In the other Testament 1 word
מִטָּה miṭṭâh · H4296 · couch, bed, bier
Hebrew מִטָּה (miṭṭāh) is used for a bier in 2 Samuel 3:31 (the bier of Abner), making it a direct translation equivalent for σορός in its funerary context. Both denote the structure on which a corpse is carried.
Semantic domains 1 entry
Bier6.109
The noun names the open frame used to carry a corpse to burial. Luke records that Jesus “came up and touched the coffin; and the bearers came to a halt. And He said, ‘Young man, I say to you, arise!’” (Luke 7:14).
Word family 3 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

σορόςsorós · G4673σωρεύω sōreúō · G4987 · to cause to be ashamed, to make ashamed, to be given over to doing · 2×ἐπισωρεύω episōreúō · G2002 · to greatly increase, to heap up · 1×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon σοροῦ, ἡ, an urn or receptacle for keeping the bones of the dead (Homer, Iliad 23, 91); a…
σοροῦ, ἡ, an urn or receptacle for keeping the bones of the dead (Homer, Iliad 23, 91); a coffin (Gen 50:26; Herodotus 1, 68; 2, 78; Aristophanes, Aeschines, Plutarch, others); the funeral-couch or bier on which the Jews carried their dead forth to burial (see B. D. American edition under the word ; Edersheim, Jesus the Messiah, i., 555f): Lk 7:14.

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Furniture1 occurrence

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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