EXP:Grave Clothes  by Jim Fox

   Greek - keira = winding sheet

   Prepatory to burial, the body was washed, amd frequently annointed
with spices, then stretched out on a bier until it was ready to be
buried (Acts 5:7).

   After the washing and annointing, the corpse was wrapped in a linen
winding sheet, the hands and feet were bound with grave-bands, and the
face covered with a napkin (John 11:44).

   Greek- othone = a linen cloth, sheet, a swath, bandage

   In John 19:40 in describing the burial of Jesus a different Greek
word is used to describe the wrapping of Jesus' body for burial than
that used to describe how Lazarus was wrapped. The word here in John
19:40 is plural, so Jesus was wrapped with many cloths. Greek-sindon =
a fine linen. In decribing the wrapping of Jesus' body for burial in
Matthew, Mark, and Luke the Greek word "sindon" is used. See Matt
27:59; Mark 15:46; Luke 23:53.

   Source Material: The Zondervan Pictorial Bible Dictionary Vine's
Expository Dictionary Young' Analytical Concordance The Zondervan
Parallel NT in Greek + English Zondervan Analytical Greek Lexicon

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