Genesis 23:4
I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.
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Bury
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John 19:40
Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury.
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קָבַר
qâbar · kaw-bar'
32 times translated as this KJV form133 total Strong's occurrences
to inter
Strong's KJV usage: × in any wise, bury(-ier).
Strong's first: Genesis 23:4Strong's last: Hosea 9:6
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tháptō · thap'-to
4 times translated as this KJV form11 total Strong's occurrences
to celebrate funeral rites, i.e. inter
Strong's KJV usage: :--bury.
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Strong's first: Matthew 8:21Strong's last: Luke 9:60
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entaphiázō · en-taf-ee-ad'-zo
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
to inswathe with cerements for interment
Strong's KJV usage: :--bury.
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Strong's first: John 19:40Strong's last: John 19:40
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taphḗ · taf-ay'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
burial (the act)
Strong's KJV usage: :--X bury.
Strong's first: Matthew 27:7Strong's last: Matthew 27:7
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H6912
Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter: for they shall bury in Tophet, till there be no place.
H6912
And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; and they shall have none to bury them, them, their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters: for I will pour their wickedness upon them.
H6912
And shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Even so will I break this people and this city, as one breaketh a potter's vessel, that cannot be made whole again: and they shall bury them in Tophet, till there be no place to bury.
H6912
And shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Even so will I break this people and this city, as one breaketh a potter's vessel, that cannot be made whole again: and they shall bury them in Tophet, till there be no place to bury.
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bury
BURY, noun ber'ry. This word is a different orthography of burg, burh, borough. It signifies a house, habitation or castle, and is retained in many names of places, as in Shrewsbury, Danbury, Aldermanbury. The word is used by Grew, for burrow.
BURY, verb transitive ber'ry.
1. To deposit a deceased person in the grave; to inter a corpse; to entomb.
2. To cover with earth, as seed sown.
3. To hide; to conceal; to overwhelm; to cover with any thing; as, to bury any one in the ruins of a city.
4. To withdraw or conceal in retirement; as, to bury one's self in a monastery or in solitude.
5. To commit to the water; to deposit in the ocean; as dead bodies buried in the deep.
6. To place one thing within another.
Thy name so buried in her.
7. To forget and forgive; to hide in oblivion; as, to bury an injury.
To bury the hatchet, in the striking metaphorical language of American Indians, is to lay aside the instruments of war, forget injuries, and make peace.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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