noun · neuter
soudariem
Strong’sG4676
a handkerchief
stem soudari-4 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books1 of 6 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.
*† σουδάριον, -ου, τό (Lat.),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4676 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidsoo-dar'-ee-on
a sudarium (sweat-cloth), i.e. towel (for wiping the perspiration from the face, or binding the face of a corpse)
Fromof Latin origin;
King Jameshandkerchief, napkin.
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
= Latin sudārium, towel, napkin, NT+2nd 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 or object direct | soudariem | soudarieim |
| of, belonging to genitive | soudarieu | soudarieiu |
| to, for dative | soudarie2×σουδαρίῳ | soudariei |
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
soudarie 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.
4 occurrences, every one of them listed
soudarie“cloth”to, fordative singular2×
Luke 19:20“handkerchief”… mnas su han echame apokeiorōntan en soudarie;… here is your mina, which I have laid away in a piece …
John 11:44… cheirain keiriai, kai tas opsias autou soudarie peridotelē. legatō autoi tos Iēsus; Luavar …… and his face wrapped in a cloth. “Unwrap him and let him go …
soudariem1×
John 20:7kai tem soudariem, hem ate epi tau kefalau autou, …The cloth that had been around Jesus’ head …
soudarieim1×
Acts 19:12… asthenarōntoin apoferorō apo tou chrōtou autou soudarieim ē simikinthieim kai apallaxorō apo autoiu …so that even handkerchiefs and aprons that had touched him …