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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 - When Laban had gone to shear his flock, then Rachel stole the [fn]household idols that were her father’s.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 38:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:12 - Now [fn]after a considerable time Shua’s daughter, the wife of Judah, died; and when [fn]the time of mourning was ended, Judah went up to his sheepshearers at Timnah, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 38:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:13 - It was told to Tamar, “[fn]Behold, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 15:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:19 - “You shall consecrate to the LORD your God all the firstborn males that are born of your herd and of your flock; you shall not work with the firstborn of your herd, nor shear the firstborn of your flock.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:2 - Now there was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel; and the man was very [fn]rich, and he had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats. And it came about while he was shearing his sheep in Carmel

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:4

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

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:7 - ‘Now I have heard that you have shearers; now your shepherds have been with us and we have not insulted them, nor have they missed anything all the days 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 meat that I have slaughtered for my shearers, and give it to men [fn]whose origin I do not know?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 13:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:23 - Now it came about after two full years that Absalom had sheepshearers in Baal-hazor, which is near Ephraim, and Absalom invited all the king’s sons.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 13:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:24 - Absalom came to the king and said, “Behold now, your servant has sheepshearers; please let the king and his servants go with your servant.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:26 - When he cut the hair of his head (and it was at the end of every year that he cut it, for it was heavy on him so he cut it), he weighed the hair of his head at 200 shekels by the king’s weight.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 1:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:20 - Then Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head, and he fell to the ground and worshiped.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 27:25

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:25 - When the grass disappears, the new growth is seen,
And the herbs of the mountains are gathered in,

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 4:2

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:2 - “Your teeth are like a flock of newly shorn ewes
Which have come up from their washing,
All of which bear twins,
And not one among them has [fn]lost her young.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 6:6

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 6:6 - “Your teeth are like a flock of ewes
Which have come up from their washing,
All of which bear twins,
And not one among them has [fn]lost her young.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 53:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 53:7 - He was oppressed and He was afflicted,
Yet He did not open His mouth;
Like a lamb that is led to slaughter,
And like a sheep that is silent before its shearers,
So He did not open His mouth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 7:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:29 - ‘Cut off [fn]your hair and cast it away,
And take up a lamentation on the bare heights;
For the LORD has rejected and forsaken
The generation of His wrath.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 49:32

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:32 - “Their camels will become plunder,
And their many cattle for booty,
And I will scatter to all the winds those who cut the corners of their hair;
And I will bring their disaster from every side,” declares the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mic 1:16

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:16 - Make yourself bald and cut off your hair,
Because of the children of your delight;
Extend your baldness like the eagle,
For they will go from you into exile.
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