2001 Translation

KOURAN, kouran

Sounds Like: KOO-rahn

Translations: haircut, a haircut, shaving, a shaving, shearing, a shearing, cutting, a cutting

From the root: ΚΟΥΡΑ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to the act of cutting or shearing, especially hair or wool. It can denote a haircut, a shaving, or the shearing of sheep. In a broader sense, it signifies any act of cutting or clipping.

Inflection: Singular, Accusative, Feminine

Strong’s number: G2892 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 7 — 8:174

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Joshua — 5:12

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΚΟΥΡΑ.

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.

• ΚΟΥΡΑ — shearing, a shearing, shaving, a shaving, haircut, a haircut, fleece, a fleece, wool, a wool
• ΚΟΥΡΑΣ — of shearing, of a shearing, of a fleece, of a shorn fleece
• ΚΟΥΡΩΝ — of shearing, of a shearing, of fleece, of a fleece

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