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Lexicon :: Strong's G2751 - keirō

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κείρω
Transliteration
keirō (Key)
Pronunciation
ki'-ro
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primary verb
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Strong’s Definitions

κείρω keírō, ki'-ro; a primary verb; to shear:—shear(-er).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 4x

The KJV translates Strong's G2751 in the following manner: shear (3x), shearer (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 4x
The KJV translates Strong's G2751 in the following manner: shear (3x), shearer (1x).

  1. to sheer: a sheep

  2. to get or let be shorn

  3. of shearing or cutting short the hair of the head

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
κείρω keírō, ki'-ro; a primary verb; to shear:—shear(-er).
STRONGS G2751:
κείρω; (1 aorist ἐκειρα (Acts 8:32 T WH marginal reading)); 1 aorist middle ἐκειραμην; from Homer down; to shear: a sheep, Acts 8:32 ((cf. above) from Isaiah 53:7). Middle to get or let be shorn (Winers Grammar, § 38, 2 b.; Buttmann, § 135, 4): τήν κεφαλήν, Acts 18:18; absolutely, of shearing or cutting short the hair of the head, 1 Corinthians 11:6 (cf. Winer's Grammar, § 43, 1).
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Isaiah
53:7
Acts
8:32; 8:32; 18:18
1 Corinthians
11:6

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2751 matches the Greek κείρω (keirō),
which occurs 21 times in 19 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:19 - And Laban went to shear his sheep; and Rachel stole her father's images.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:12 - And the days were fulfilled, and Sava the wife of Judas died; and Judas, being comforted, went to them that sheared his sheep, himself and Iras his shepherd the Odollamite, to Thamna.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:13 - And it was told Thamar his daughter-in-law, saying, Behold, thy father-in-law goeth up to Thamna, to shear his sheep.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:19 - Every first-born that shall be born among thy kine and thy sheep, thou shalt sanctify the males to the Lord thy God; thou shalt not work with thy first-born calf, and thou shalt not shear the first-born of thy sheep.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:2 - And there was a man in Maon, and his flocks were in Carmel, and he was a very great man; and he had [fn]three thousand sheep, and a thousand she-goats: and he happened to be shearing his flock in Carmel.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:4 - And David heard in the wilderness, that Nabal the Carmelite was shearing his sheep.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:7 - And now, behold, I have heard that thy shepherds who were with us in the wilderness are shearing [fn]thy sheep, and we hindered them not, neither did we demand any thing from them all the time they were in Carmel.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:11 - And shall I take my bread, and my wine, and my [fn]beasts that I have slain for [fn]my shearers, and shall I give them to men of whom I know not whence they are?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:23 - And it came to pass at the end of [fn]two whole years, that they were shearing sheep for Abessalom in Belasor near Ephraim: and Abessalom invited all the king's sons.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:24 - And Abessalom came to the king, and said, Behold, [fn]thy servant has a sheep-shearing; let now the king and his servants go with thy servant.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:26 - And when he polled his head, (and it was [fn]at the beginning of every year that he polled it, because it grew heavy upon him,) even when he polled it, he weighed the hair of his head, two hundred shekels according to the royal shekel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:20 - So Job arose, and rent his garments, and shaved the hair of his head, and fell on the earth, and worshipped,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:25

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:25 - Take care of the herbage in the field, and thou shalt cut grass, and gather the mountain hay;

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:2

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:2 - Thy teeth are as flocks of shorn sheep, that have gone up from the washing; all of them bearing twins, and there is not a barren one among them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 6:6

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 6:6 - Thy teeth are as flocks of shorn sheep, that have gone up from the washing, all of them bearing twins, and there is none barren among them: thy lips are as a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is comely.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 53:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 53:7 - And he, because of his affliction, opens not his mouth: [fn] he was led as a sheep to the slaughter, and as a lamb before the shearer is dumb, so he opens not his mouth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:29 - Cut off thine hair, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on thy lips; for the Lord has reprobated and rejected the generation that does these things.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:32

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:32 - (LXX 30:27) And their camels shall be a spoil, and the multitude of their cattle shall be destroyed: and I will scatter them as chaff with every wind, having their hair cut about their foreheads, I will bring on their overthrow from all sides, saith the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:16

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:16 - Shave thine hair, and make thyself bald for thy delicate children; increase thy widowhood as an eagle; for thy people are gone into captivity from thee.
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