STRONGS G4673:
σορός,
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.
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