Greek verb · G3587
ξυράω
xyraoxoo-rah'-o
to shave
3 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: xyráō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G3587is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 27New Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G3587
to shave or "shear" the hair
The King James renders it: shave.
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
xyrao is rendered "to shave". It stands 3 times in the Greek text, across two books.
- Two of the uses stand in 1 Corinthians, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Acts 21:24Take these men, purify yourself along with them, and pay their expenses so they can have their heads shaved. Then everyone will know that there is no truth to these rumors about you, but that you also live in obedience to the law.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
Take these men, purify yourself along with them, and pay their expenses so they can have their heads shaved. Then everyone will know that there is no truth to these rumors about you, but that you also live in obedience to the law.
Acts 21:24ξυρήσονται
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's three uses are in 1 Corinthians.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- shaven1
- they will shave1
- to be shaven1
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.
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 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
- ἐξυρημένῃ1
- ξυρᾶσθαι1
- ξυρήσονται1
The grammar of each form
- verb · aorist middle, infinitive (“to…”)1V-AMN
- verb · future middle form, indicative · 3rd person plural1V-FDI-3P
- verb · perfect passive, participle · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singular1V-RPP-DSF
Acts
one use
Take these men, purify yourself along with them, and pay their expenses so they can have their heads shaved. Then everyone will know that there is no truth to these rumors about you, but that you also live in obedience to the law.
- ξυρήσονταιxuresontaiverb · future middle form, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: they will shave
1 Corinthians
two uses
And every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, for it is just as if her head were shaved.
- ἐξυρημένῃexuremeneverb · perfect passive, participle · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: shaven
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.
- ξυρᾶσθαιxurasthaiverb · aorist middle, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to be shaven
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.