4616. sindón
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sindón: fine linen cloth
Original Word: σινδών, όνος, ἡ
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: sindón
Phonetic Spelling: (sin-done')
Short Definition: a linen cloth
Definition: fine linen, a linen cloth.

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
of uncertain derivation
Definition
fine linen cloth
NASB Translation
linen cloth (4), linen sheet (2).

Thayer's
STRONGS NT 4616: σινδών

σινδών, σινδονος, (of uncertain origin; Sanskritsindhu (Egyptian,sehenti or 'sent'; cf. Vanicek, Fremdwörter under the word); the Sept. for סָדִין, Judges 14:12; Proverbs 29:42 (), fine cloth (Latinsindon), i. e.:

1. linen cloth, especially that which was fine and costly, in which the bodies of the dead were wrapped: Matthew 27:59; Mark 15:46; Luke 23:53 (cf. Herodotus 2, 86 who says of the Egyptians, κατειλισσουσι πᾶν τό σῶμα σινδονος βυσσινης (see Wilkinson's note in Rawlinson's Herod. 3rd edition, the passage cited)).

2. thing made of fine cloth: so of a light and loose garment worn at night over the naked body, Mark 14:51f (others suppose a sheet rather than a shirt to be referred to; A. V. linen cloth; cf. B. D. American edition, under the word Sheets). (Besides Herodotus, the writers Sophocles, Thucydides, Strabo, Lucian, others use the word.)



Strong's
fine linen.

Of uncertain (perhaps foreign) origin; byssos, i.e. Bleached linen (the cloth or a garment of it) -- (fine) linen (cloth).

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