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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 8 times in 5 verses in 'Lev' in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 13:33

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:33 - then he shall shave himself, but he shall not shave the scale; and the priest shall [fn]isolate the person with the scale seven more days.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 13:34

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:34 - “Then on the seventh day the priest shall look at the scale, and if the scale has not spread in the skin and it appears to be no deeper than the skin, the priest shall pronounce him clean; and he shall wash his clothes and be clean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 14:8

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:8 - “The one to be cleansed shall then wash his clothes and shave off all his hair and bathe in water and be clean. Now afterward, he may enter the camp, but he shall stay outside his tent for seven days.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 14:9

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:9 - “And it will be on the seventh day that he shall shave off all his hair: he shall shave his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair. He shall then wash his clothes and bathe his [fn]body in water and be clean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 21:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:5 - ‘They shall not make any baldness on their heads nor shave off the edges of their beards nor make any cuts in their flesh.
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