G4616: σινδών
sindṓn · “linen”
Definition
byssos, i.e. bleached linen (the cloth or a garment of it)
KJV translates it as: (fine) linen (cloth)
Word origin: of uncertain (perhaps foreign) origin;
Extended definition
[in LXX: Jdg.14:12-13 A, Pro.31:24 (סָדִין), 1Ma.10:64 A * ;]
fine linen cloth;
(a) as used for swathing dead bodies (cf. Hdt., ii, 86): Mat.27:59, Mrk.15:46, Luk.23:53;
(b) a garment or wrap of this material (cf. ICC, Jg, l.with): Mrk.14:51-52.†
(AS)
Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon (1922) via STEPBible TBESG (CC BY 4.0).
How G4616 is translated
- a linen cloth ×2
- linen cloth ×2
- a linen cloth, ×1
- in a linen cloth ×1
Bible verses with G4616 (sindṓn)
Sindṓn appears in 5 verses.
- Matthew 27:59
And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth,
- Mark 14:51
And there followed him a certain young man, having a linen cloth cast about his naked body; and the young men laid hold on him:
- Mark 14:52
And he left the linen cloth, and fled from them naked.
- Mark 15:46
And he bought fine linen, and took him down, and wrapped him in the linen, and laid him in a sepulchre which was hewn out of a rock, and rolled a stone unto the door of the sepulchre.
- Luke 23:53
And he took it down, and wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a sepulchre that was hewn in stone, wherein never man before was laid.