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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).
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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 - Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole her father's household gods.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 38:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:12 - In course of time the wife of Judah, Shua's daughter, died; and when Judah was comforted, he went up to Timnah to his sheepshearers, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 38:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:13 - And when Tamar was told, "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 - "All the firstling males that are born of your herd and flock you shall consecrate to the LORD your God; you shall do no work with the firstling of your herd, nor shear the firstling of your flock.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:2 - And there was a man in Ma'on, whose business was in Carmel. The man was very rich; he had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats. He was shearing his sheep in Carmel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:4 - 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 - I hear that you have shearers; now your shepherds have been with us, and we did them no harm, and they missed nothing, all the time they were in Carmel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:11 - Shall I take my bread and my water and my meat that I have killed for my shearers, and give it to men who come from I do not know where?"

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 13:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:23 - After two full years Ab'salom had sheepshearers at Ba'al-ha'zor, which is near E'phraim, and Ab'salom invited all the king's sons.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 13:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:24 - And Ab'salom came to the king, and said, "Behold, your servant has sheepshearers; pray 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 - And when he cut the hair of his head (for at the end of every year he used to cut it; when it was heavy on him, he cut it), he weighed the hair of his head, two hundred 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 rent his robe, and shaved his head, and fell upon the ground, and worshiped.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 27:25

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:25 - When the grass is gone, and the new growth appears, and the herbage of the mountains is gathered,

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:2 - Your teeth are like a flock of shorn ewes that have come up from the washing, all of which bear twins, and not one among them is bereaved.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 6:6

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 6:6 - Your teeth are like a flock of ewes, that have come up from the washing, all of them bear twins, not one among them is bereaved.

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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; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that before its shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 7:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:29 - Cut off your hair and cast it away; raise 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 shall become booty, their herds of cattle a spoil. I will scatter to every wind those who cut the corners of their hair, and I will bring their calamity from every side of them, says the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mic 1:16

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:16 - Make yourselves bald and cut off your hair, for the children of your delight; make yourselves as bald as the eagle, for they shall go from you into exile.
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