noun · feminine
keirias
Greekκειρία (keiria)
Strong’sG2750
a bandage, grave clothes
stem keiri-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
Translated as
What it means
κειρία, -ας, ἡ,
[in LXX: Pr 7:16 (מַרְבַּדִּים)*;]
a vernacular word,G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2750 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidki-ree'-ah
a swathe, i.e. winding-sheet
Fromof uncertain affinity;
King Jamesgraveclothes.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Every form
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | keirias | keiriais |
| object accusative | keirian | keiriain |
| direct address vocative | keiriar | keiriair |
| of, belonging to genitive | keiriau | keiriaiu |
| to, for dative | keiria | keiriai1×κειρίαις |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
keiria is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
keiriai“strips of cloth”to, fordative plural1×
John 11:44“strips of cloth”exerchata tos thnēskarētos dirētos toin podoin kai tain cheirain keiriai, kai tas opsias autou soudarie periditelē. legatō autoi tos Iēsus; Luavar auton kai afiēkavar auton hupagarō.The man who had been dead came out with his hands and feet bound in strips of linen, and his face wrapped in a cloth. “Unwrap him and let him go,” Jesus told them.