σουδάριον
soudarion
“handkerchief”
Definition
a sudarium (sweat-cloth), i.e. towel (for wiping the perspiration from the face, or binding the face of a corpse)
of Latin origin;
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Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Neuter)
G:N-N
Greek Noun, Neuter
Occurrences
σουδάριον appears 4 times in the New Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
so that even handkerchiefs and aprons that had touched him were taken to the sick, and the diseases and evil spirits left them.
The man who had been dead came out with his hands and feet bound in strips of linen, and his face wrapped in a cloth.“Unwrap him and let him go,” Jesus told them.
The cloth that had been around Jesus’ head was rolled up, lying separate from the linen cloths.
Then another servant came and said, ‘Master, here is your mina, which I have laid away in a piece of cloth.
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