Strong's Greek · G4676
G4676 soudárion
σουδάριον
soo-dar'-ee-on
handkerchief
Looking for Hebrew H4676 matstsêbâh? It has the same number in Strong's Hebrew lexicon but is a different word, not a translation of G4676. Strong's numbering starts again for each language.
soudárion appears 4 times in Scripture, in Luke, John and Acts. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.
Definition
a sudarium (sweat-cloth), i.e. towel (for wiping the perspiration from the face, or binding the face of a corpse)
In the King James Version
handkerchief, napkin
Derivation
of Latin origin;
Appears 4 times in Scripture
“Then another servant came and said, ‘Master, here is your mina, which I have laid away in a piece of cloth.”
“The man who had been dead came out with his hands and feet bound in strips of linen, and his face wrapped in a cloth. “Unwrap him and let him go,” Jesus told them.”
“so that even handkerchiefs and aprons that had touched him were taken to the sick, and the diseases and evil spirits left them.”
“The cloth that had been around Jesus’ head was rolled up, lying separate from the linen cloths.”
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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).
