Greek noun (neuter) · G4676
σουδάριον
soudarionsoo-dar'-ee-on
handkerchief
4 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: soudárion
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4676is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 27New Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4676
a sudarium (sweat-cloth), i.e. towel (for wiping the perspiration from the face, or binding the face of a corpse)
The King James renders it: handkerchief, napkin.
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
soudarion is rendered "handkerchief". It stands 4 times in the Greek text, across three books.
- Two of the uses stand in John, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Luke 19:20Then another servant came and said, ‘Master, here is your mina, which I have laid away in a piece of cloth.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
Then another servant came and said, ‘Master, here is your mina, which I have laid away in a piece of cloth.
Luke 19:20σουδαρίῳ
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- a piece of cloth1
- handkerchiefs1
- in a headcloth1
- soudarion1
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 4, 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
- σουδαρίῳ2
- σουδάρια1
- σουδάριον1
The grammar of each form
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singular2N-DSN
- noun · accusative (object) · neuter plural1N-APN
- noun · accusative (object) · neuter singular1N-ASN
Luke
one use
Then another servant came and said, ‘Master, here is your mina, which I have laid away in a piece of cloth.
- σουδαρίῳsoudarionoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singulartagged: a piece of cloth
John
two uses
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.
- σουδαρίῳsoudarionoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singulartagged: in a headcloth
The cloth that had been around Jesus’ head was rolled up, lying separate from the linen cloths.
- σουδάριονsoudarionnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: soudarion
Acts
one use
so that even handkerchiefs and aprons that had touched him were taken to the sick, and the diseases and evil spirits left them.
- σουδάριαsoudarianoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: handkerchiefs
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.