Lexical Summary keiria: a bandage, grave-clothes Original Word: κειρίαTransliteration: keiria Phonetic Spelling: (ki-ree'-ah) Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Short Definition: a bandage, grave-clothes Meaning: a bandage, grave-clothes Strong's Concordance graveclothes. Of uncertain affinity; a swathe, i.e. Winding-sheet -- graveclothes. Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 2750: κειρίακειρία, κειριας, ἡ, a band, either for a bed-girth (Schol. ad Aristophanes av. 817 κειρία. εἶδος ζώνης ἐκ σχοινίων, παρεοικος ἱμάντι, ἡ δεσμουσι τάς κλίνας, cf. Proverbs 7:16; (Plutarch, Alcib. 16, 1)), or for tying up a corpse after it has been swathed in linen: in the latter sense in John 11:44; (others take it here of the swathings themselves). |
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