Greek

To prepare burial

ἐνταφιάζωStrong’s G1779

entaphiazō

Appears in 2 verses of the New Testament

In short

Entaphiazō is the Greek word usually translated “bury” and “prepare for burial”. It appears in 2 verses of the New Testament.

“For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did it for my burial.”

Matthew 26:12 KJV

Meaning

Usually translated “bury” and “prepare for burial”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated

to bury 1
to prepare for burial 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Matthew 1
John 1

2 books in all.

Explore in Scripture

John 19:40Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury.

Greek dictionary

ἐνταφιάζω entaphiazō · to prepare burial

ἐνταφιάζω [in LXX: Gen.50:2 (חָנַט; cf. ἐνταφιαστής, Gen.50:2 for רָפָא; see Deiss., BS, 120 f.; MM, Exp., xiii)* ;] a κοινή word (Deiss., LAE, 723), to prepare for burial: Mat.26:12, Jhn.19:40.† (AS)

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “bury” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

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.

All definitions and other forms of “bury”

BURY, verb transitive

ber'ry.

To deposit a deceased person in the grave; to inter a corpse; to entomb.
To cover with earth, as seed sown.
To hide; to conceal; to overwhelm; to cover with any thing; as, to bury any one in the ruins of a city.
To withdraw or conceal in retirement; as, to bury one's self in a monastery or in solitude.
To commit to the water; to deposit in the ocean; as dead bodies buried in the deep.
To place one thing within another.
To forget and forgive; to hide in oblivion; as, to bury an injury.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.