noun · feminine
soras
Strong’sG4673
a bier, an open coffin
stem sor-once in the New Testament1 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.
σορός, -οῦ, ἡ
[in LXX: Ge 50:26 (אָרוֹן), Jb 21:32 A *;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4673 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidsor-os'
a funereal receptacle (urn, coffin), i.e. (by analogy) a bier
Fromprobably akin to the base of G4987;
King Jamesbier.
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
vessel for holding human remains, cinerary urn, ὣς δὲ καὶ ὀστέα νῶϊν ὁμὴ σ. ἀμφικαλύπτοι Refs 8th c.BC+; coffin, Refs 5th c.BC+; of stone, Refs 4th c.BC+; bier, NT+3rd c.AD+
II as nickname of an old man or woman, Refs 5th c.BC+
III αἱ δημόσιαι σ. uncertain meaning in Refs 4th c.AD+
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 | soras | sorais |
| object accusative | soran | sorain |
| direct address vocative | sorar | sorair |
| of, belonging to genitive | sorau1×σοροῦ | soraiu |
| to, for dative | sora | sorai |
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
sora 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.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
sorau“coffin”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Luke 7:14kai prosercharantos hapteta tau sorau, tois de bastazarōntois stēala, kai legata; …… He went up and touched the coffin, and those carrying it stood still …