Greek verb · G2751
κείρω
keiroki'-ro
to shear
4 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: keírō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G2751is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 27New Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G2751
to shear
The King James renders it: shear(-er).
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
keiro is rendered "to shear". It stands 4 times in the Greek text, across two books.
- Two of the uses stand in Acts, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Acts 8:32The eunuch was reading this passage of Scripture: “He was led like a sheep to the slaughter, and as a lamb before the shearer is silent, so He did not open His mouth.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
The eunuch was reading this passage of Scripture: “He was led like a sheep to the slaughter, and as a lamb before the shearer is silent, so He did not open His mouth.
Acts 8:32κείραντος
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's four uses are in Acts.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- having shaved1
- she should be shorn1
- shearing1
- to be shorn1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| κειρία | keiria | graveclothes | Uses1 |
All 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- κειράμενος1
- κείραντος1
- κείρασθαι1
- κειράσθω1
The grammar of each form
- verb · aorist active, participle · genitive (“of”) · masculine singular1V-AAP-GSM
- verb · aorist middle, command · 3rd person singular1V-AMM-3S
- verb · aorist middle, infinitive (“to…”)1V-AMN
- verb · aorist middle, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singular1V-AMP-NSM
Acts
two uses
The eunuch was reading this passage of Scripture: “He was led like a sheep to the slaughter, and as a lamb before the shearer is silent, so He did not open His mouth.
- κείραντοςkeirantosverb · aorist active, participle · genitive (“of”) · masculine singulartagged: shearing
Paul remained in Corinth for quite some time before saying goodbye to the brothers. He had his head shaved in Cenchrea to keep a vow he had made, and then he sailed for Syria, accompanied by Priscilla and Aquila.
- κειράμενοςkeiramenosverb · aorist middle, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: having shaved
1 Corinthians
two uses
If a woman does not cover her head, she should have her hair cut off. And if it is shameful for a woman to have her hair cut or shaved off, she should cover her head.
- κειράσθωkeirasthoverb · aorist middle, command · 3rd person singulartagged: she should be shorn
- κείρασθαιkeirasthaiverb · aorist middle, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to be shorn
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.