HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H6913
קֶ֫בֶר
qe.ver — grave
grave, sepulchre, tomb
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Sepulchre
Original Hebrew / Aramaic / Greek connected to this term
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GREEK · G3419
μνημεῖον
mnēmeion — grave
μνημεῖον, -ου, τό [in LXX for קֶבֶר, קְבוּרָה ;] 1. a memorial, record (cl., cf. Wis.10:7). 2. (a) (cl.) a monument: Luk.11:47; (b) a sepulchre, tomb (Gen.23:6, 9, Isa.22:16, al.): Mat.23:29, Mrk.5:2, Luk.11:44, Jhn.5:28, and frequently in Gospels, Act.13:29 SYN.: μνῆμα (AS)
36 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →GREEK · G3418
μνῆμα
mnēma — tomb
μνῆμα, -τος, τό (μνάομαι), [in LXX for קֶבֶר, קְבוּרָה ;] 1. a memorial. 2. a sepulchral monument, a sepulchre, tomb: Mrk.5:3, 5 15:46 16:2 (WH, μνημεῖον), Luk.8:27 23:53 24:1, Act.2:29 7:16, Rev.11:9.† SYN.: μνημεῖον (AS)
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גָּרוֹן
ga.ron — throat
1) neck, throat 1a) neck 1b) throat 1b1) of open sepulchre (fig.)
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σηκός
sēkos — weight
1. a pen, fold , for lambs, kids, calves, (Homer); ς. δράκοντος the dragon's den , (Euripides) 2. a sacred enclosure, chapel, shrine , (Sophocles Tragicus) 3. a sepulchre, burial-place , (Simonides Lyricus) 4. the trunk of an old olive-tree , (Lysias Orator) (ML)
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First mentioned as purchased by Abraham for Sarah from Ephron the Hittite (Gen. 23:20). This was the “cave of the field of Machpelah,” where also Abraham and Rebekah and Jacob and Leah were burried (79:29-32). In Acts 7:16 it is said that Jacob was “laid in the sepulchre that Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Emmor the father of Sychem.” It has been proposed, as a mode of reconciling the apparent discrepancy between this verse and Gen. 23:20, to read Acts 7:16 thus: “And they [i.e., our fathers] were carried over into Sychem, and laid in the sepulchre that Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Emmor [the son] of Sychem.” In this way the purchase made by Abraham is not to be confounded with the purchase made by Jacob subsequently in the same district. Of this purchase by Abraham there is no direct record in the Old Testament. (See TOMB.)
Scripture references
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.