Word 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, bier
Probably 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
; Edersheim, Jesus the Messiah, i., 555f): Luke 7:14.