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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 Box Gen 31:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:19 - And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images that were her father's.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 38:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:12 - And in process of time the daughter of Shuah Judah's wife died; and Judah was comforted, and went up unto his sheepshearers to Timnath, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 38:13

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 15:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:19 - All the firstling males that come of thy herd and of thy flock thou shalt sanctify unto the LORD thy God: thou shalt do no work with the firstling of thy bullock, nor shear the firstling of thy sheep.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:2 - And there was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very great, and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats: and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:4 - And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal did shear his sheep.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:7 - And now I have heard that thou hast shearers: now thy shepherds which were with us, we hurt them not, neither was there ought missing unto them, all the while they were in Carmel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:11 - Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my flesh that I have killed for my shearers, and give it unto men, whom I know not whence they be?

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 13:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:23 - And it came to pass after two full years, that Absalom had sheepshearers in Baalhazor, which is beside Ephraim: and Absalom invited all the king's sons.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 13:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:24 - And Absalom came to the king, and said, Behold now, thy servant hath sheepshearers; let the king, I beseech thee, and his servants go with thy servant.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:26 - And when he polled his head, (for it was at every year's end that he polled it: because the hair was heavy on him, therefore he polled it:) he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels after the king's weight.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 1:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:20 - Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped,

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 27:25

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:25 - The hay appeareth, and the tender grass sheweth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 4:2

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:2 - Thy teeth are like a flock of sheep that are even shorn, which came up from the washing; whereof every one bear twins, and none is barren among them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 6:6

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 6:6 - Thy teeth are as a flock of sheep which go up from the washing, whereof every one beareth twins, and there is not one barren among them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 53:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 53:7 - He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 7:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:29 - Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 49:32

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:32 - And their camels shall be a booty, and the multitude of their cattle a spoil: and I will scatter into all winds them that are in the utmost corners; and I will bring their calamity from all sides thereof, saith the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mic 1:16

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:16 - Make thee bald, and poll thee for thy delicate children; enlarge thy baldness as the eagle; for they are gone into captivity from thee.
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