Lexical Summary soros: a cinerary urn, by anal. a coffin Original Word: σορόςTransliteration: soros Phonetic Spelling: (sor-os') Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Short Definition: a cinerary urn, by anal. a coffin Meaning: a cinerary urn, a coffin Strong's Concordance a coffin, bierProbably akin to the base of soreuo; a funereal receptacle (urn, coffin), i.e. (by analogy) a bier -- bier. see GREEK soreuo Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 4673: σορόςσορός, σοροῦ, ἡ, an urn or receptacle for keeping the bones of the dead (Homer, Iliad 23, 91); a coffin (Genesis 50:26; Herodotus 1, 68; 2, 78; Aristophanes, Aeschines, Plutarch, others); the funeral-couch or bier on which the Jews carried their dead forth to burial (see B. D. American edition under the word |
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