Sindṓn — G4616

Definition

feminine noun

byssos, i.e. bleached linen (the cloth or a garment of it)

1. linen cloth, especially that which was fine and costly, in which the bodies of the dead were wrapped
2. thing made of fine cloth

Usually translated as

linen

Origin

of uncertain (perhaps foreign) origin

Occurrences

Sindṓn occurs 6 times in 5 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Matthew (1), Mark (3), Luke (1)

• Matthew 27:59 — And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth (σινδόνι),
• Mark 14:51 — And there followed him a certain young man, having a linen cloth (σινδόνα) cast about his naked body; and the young men laid hold on him:
• Mark 14:52 — And he left the linen cloth (σινδόνα), and fled from them naked.
• Mark 15:46 — And he bought fine linen (σινδόνα), and took him down, and wrapped him in the linen, and laid him in a sepulchre which was hewn out of a rock, and rolled a stone unto the door of the sepulchre.
• Mark 15:46 — And he bought fine linen, and took him down, and wrapped him in the linen (σινδόνι), and laid him in a sepulchre which was hewn out of a rock, and rolled a stone unto the door of the sepulchre.
• Luke 23:53 — And he took it down, and wrapped it in linen (σινδόνι), and laid it in a sepulchre that was hewn in stone, wherein never man before was laid.