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Grave (2)
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words
or primarily denotes "a memorial" (akin to mnaomai, "to remember"), then, "a monument" (the significance of the word rendered "tombs," AV, "sepulchres," in Luke 11:47 ), anything done to preserve the memory of things and persons; it usually denotes a tomb, and is translated either "tomb" or "sepulchre" or "grave." Apart from the Gospels, it is found only in Acts 13:29 . Among the Hebrews it was generally a cavern, closed by a door or stone, often decorated. Cp. Matthew 23:29 . See TOMB.
akin to No. 1, like which it signified "a memorial" or "record of a thing or a dead person," then "a sepulchral monument," and hence "a tomb;" it is rendered "graves" in the AV of Revelation 11:9 (RV, "a tomb"); "tomb" or "tombs," Mark 5:3,5 (some mss. have No. 1, as in Mark 15:46 , AV, "sepulchre") and Mark 16:2 (AV, "sepulchre"); Luke 8:27; Acts 2:29; 7:16 (AV, "sepulchre"). See TOMB.
Note: In 1 Corinthians 15:55 , where some texts have "Hades," AV, "grave," the most authentic have thanatos, "death."These files are public domain.
Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'Grave (2)'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ved/g/grave-2.html. 1940.
