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Grave-Clothes

Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words

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1: κειρία

(Strong's #2750 — Noun Feminine — keiria — ki-ree'-ah )

denotes, firstly, "a band" either for a bed girth, or bed sheets themselves (Sept. of Proverbs 7:16 .); then, "the swathings wrapped round a corpse;" it is used in the plural in John 11:44 .

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Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'Grave-Clothes'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​ved/​g/grave-clothes.html. 1940.
 
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