STRONGS G2750:
κειρία,
κειριας,
ἡ,
a band, either for a bed-girth (Schol. ad
Aristophanes av. 817
κειρία.
εἶδος ζώνης ἐκ σχοινίων,
παρεοικος ἱμάντι,
ἡ δεσμουσι τάς κλίνας, cf.
Proverbs 7:16; (
Plutarch, Alcib. 16, 1)), or for tying up a corpse after it has been swathed in linen: in the latter sense in
John 11:44; (others take it here of the
swathings themselves).
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