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Words
ἐνταφιάζω G1779
- Home gloss
- prepare for burial
- Instead of (KJV / RSV)
- embalm / embalm / prepare for burial
- Note
- To make a body ready for the grave: Gen 50:2, for the Masoretic version's "embalm"; Matt 26:12; John 19:40. Of the root of ταφή "burial" and θάπτω "bury" (95, 154h)
- Rulings
- 2, 95, 154
Occurrences (2)
- 50:2 And Joseph ordered his servants, the undertakers, to prepare for burial his father; and the undertakers prepared for burial Israel.
- 50:2 And Joseph ordered his servants, the undertakers, to prepare for burial his father; and the undertakers prepared for burial Israel.