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Lexicon :: Strong's G3587 - xyraō

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ξυράω
Transliteration
xyraō (Key)
Pronunciation
xoo-rah'-o
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
From a derivative of the same as ξύλον (G3586) (meaning a razor)
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Strong’s Definitions

ξυράω xyráō, xoo-rah'-o; from a derivative of the same as G3586 (meaning a razor); to shave or "shear" the hair:—shave.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 3x

The KJV translates Strong's G3587 in the following manner: shave (3x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 3x
The KJV translates Strong's G3587 in the following manner: shave (3x).
  1. to shear, shave

  2. to get one's self shaved

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ξυράω xyráō, xoo-rah'-o; from a derivative of the same as G3586 (meaning a razor); to shave or "shear" the hair:—shave.
STRONGS G3587:
ξυράω (a later form, from Diodorus (1, 84) down, for ξυρέω, which the earlier writers used from Herodotus down; (Winers Grammar, 24; Buttmann, 63 (55); especially Alexander Buttmann (1873) Ausf. Spr. ii., p. 53)), ξυρῷ: perfect passive participle ἐξυρημενος; middle, present infinitive ξυρᾶσθαι (for which some would read (1 Corinthians 11:6) ξυρᾶσθαι (1 aorist middle infinitive from ξυρῷ); see WH's Appendix, p. 166); 1 aorist subjunctive 3 person plural ξυρήσωνται (but T Tr WH read the future ξυρήσονται); (from ξυρόν a razor, and this from ξύω); the Sept. for גִּלַּח; to shear, shave: passive 1 Corinthians 11:5; middle to get oneself shaved, 1 Corinthians 11:6; 1 Corinthians 11:6; with an accusative specifying the object more precisely (cf. Buttmann, § 134, 7; Winer's Grammar, § 32, 5): τήν κεφαλήν, Acts 21:21 (the Sept. Numbers 6:9, 19: Leviticus 21:5; τάς ὀφρύας, Herodotus 2, 66; τό σῶμα, 2, 37).
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Leviticus
21:5
Numbers
6:9; 6:19
Acts
21:21
1 Corinthians
11:5; 11:6; 11:6; 11:6

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G3587 matches the Greek ξυράω (xyraō),
which occurs 26 times in 21 verses in the LXX Greek.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:14 -

Then Pharaoh sent for Joseph, and they quickly brought him from the dungeon.[fn] He shaved, changed his clothes, and went to Pharaoh.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:33 -

“the person is to shave himself but not shave the scaly area. Then the priest will quarantine the person who has the scaly outbreak for another seven days.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:34 -

“The priest will examine the scaly outbreak on the seventh day, and if it has not spread on the skin and does not appear to be deeper than the skin, the priest is to pronounce the person clean. He is to wash his clothes, and he will be clean.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:8 -

“The one who is to be cleansed must wash his clothes, shave off all his hair, and bathe with water; he is clean. Afterward he may enter the camp, but he must remain outside his tent for seven days.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:9 -

“He is to shave off all his hair again on the seventh day: his head, his beard, his eyebrows, and the rest of his hair. He is to wash his clothes and bathe himself with water; he is clean.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:5 -

“Priests may not make bald spots on their heads, shave the edge of their beards, or make gashes on their bodies.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:9 -

“If someone suddenly dies near him, defiling his consecrated head, he must shave his head on the day of his purification; he is to shave it on the seventh day.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:18 -

“The Nazirite is to shave his consecrated head at the entrance to the tent of meeting, take the hair from his head, and put it on the fire under the fellowship sacrifice.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:19 -

“The priest is to take the boiled shoulder from the ram, one unleavened cake from the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and put them into the hands of the Nazirite after he has shaved his consecrated head.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:12 -

“you are to bring her into your house. She is to shave her head, trim her nails,

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:17 -

he told her the whole truth and said to her, “My hair has never been cut,[fn] because I am a Nazirite to God from birth. If I am shaved, my strength will leave me, and I will become weak and be like any other man.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:19 -

Then she let him fall asleep on her lap and called a man to shave off the seven braids on his head. In this way, she made him helpless, and his strength left him.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:22 -

But his hair began to grow back after it had been shaved.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:4 -

So Hanun took David’s emissaries, shaved off half their beards, cut their clothes in half at the hips, and sent them away.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:4 -

So Hanun took David’s emissaries, shaved them, cut their clothes in half at the hips, and sent them away.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:20 -

On that day the Lord will use a razor hired from beyond the Euphrates River ​— ​the king of Assyria ​— ​to shave the hair on your heads, the hair on your legs, and even your beards.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:6 -

“Both great and small will die in this land without burial. No lament will be made for them, nor will anyone cut himself or shave his head for them.[fn]

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:5 -

eighty men came from Shechem, Shiloh, and Samaria who had shaved their beards, torn their clothes, and gashed themselves, and who were carrying grain and incense offerings to bring to the temple of the LORD.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:37 -

“Indeed, every head is bald and every beard is chopped short. On every hand is a gash and sackcloth around the waist.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:20 -

“They may not shave their heads or let their hair grow long, but are to carefully trim their hair.

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:16 -

Shave yourselves bald and cut off your hair

in sorrow for your precious children;

make yourselves as bald as an eagle,

for they have been taken from you into exile.

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