noun · feminine
sindonas
Strong’sG4616
a linen cloth
stem sindon-6 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books2 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
σινδών, -όνος, ἡ
[in LXX: Jg 14:12, 13A, Pr 31:24 (סָדִין), I Mac 10:64 A *;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4616 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidsin-done'
byssos, i.e. bleached linen (the cloth or a garment of it)
Fromof uncertain (perhaps foreign) origin;
King James(fine) linen (cloth).
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
(ὁ, Refs 4th c.BC+, fine cloth, usually linen, Refs 5th c.BC+; σ. βυσσίνης τελαμῶνες, used for mummies, Refs 5th c.BC+; of surgeons' bandages, Refs 4th c.BC+
2 anything made of such cloth, garment of linen (sometimes muslin), Refs 4th c.BC+; ἐν εὐτελεῖ σ. Refs 1st c.AD+; napkin, Refs 4th c.AD+; ship's sail, Refs 5th c.BC+; flag, standard, Refs 2nd c.BC+; cloth or sheet, σ. καθαρά Refs 4th c.AD+ (so of a winding-sheet, NTsheets, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐντὸς σινδόνος within the veil, esoteric, Refs 4th c.AD+; ἔξω σ. exoteric, Refs
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | sindonas | sindonais |
| object accusative | sindonan3×σινδόνα | sindonain |
| direct address vocative | sindonar | sindonair |
| of, belonging to genitive | sindonau | sindonaiu |
| to, for dative | sindona3×σινδόνι | sindonai |
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
sindona 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
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
6 occurrences, every one of them listed
sindonan“linen cloth”objectaccusative singular3×
Mark 14:51Kai neaniskos tinos sunakolouthate auto peribalorēntos sindonan epi gumneu, kai kratalō auton,… been following Jesus was wearing a linen cloth around his body. They caught hold …
Mark 14:52tos de kataleiparantos tan sindonan gumnos fugata.but he pulled free of the linen cloth and ran away naked.
Mark 15:46kai agorazarantos sindonan kathairarantos auton eneilata ta sindona kai …So Joseph bought a linen cloth, took down the body of Jesus …
sindona“linen cloth”to, fordative singular3×
Matthew 27:59… tem sōmem tos Iōsēf entulissata autem sindona kathara,… body, wrapped it in a clean linen cloth,
Mark 15:46… agorazarantos sindonan kathairarantos auton eneilata ta sindona kai tithata auton en mnēmeie hem …So Joseph bought a linen cloth, took down the body of …
Luke 23:53kai kathairarantos entulissata autem sindona, kai tithata auton en mnēme laxeute …… it down, wrapped it in a linen cloth, and placed it in a tomb …