ΚΕΙΡΙΑ, κειρια
KEIRIA, keiria
Sounds Like: kay-REE-ah
Translations: bandages, grave-clothes, swaddling clothes, a bandage, a grave-cloth, a swaddling cloth
From the root: ΚΕΙΡΙΑ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to strips of cloth, often linen, used for wrapping. It can describe grave-clothes used to bind a corpse for burial, or swaddling clothes used to wrap an infant. It is typically used in the plural to refer to multiple strips of cloth.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative or Accusative or Vocative, Feminine
Strong’s number: G2750 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Proverbs — 7:16
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΚΕΙΡΙΑ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΚΕΙΡΙΑΙΣ — bands, grave-clothes, wrappings
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