Gloss
to have one's hair shaved
Forms of the word
Dictionary
ξυράω
Greek transliteration
xyraō
Simplified transliteration
xyrao
Principal Parts
ξυρήσω, -, -, ἐξύρημαι, -
Numbers
Strong's number
3587
GK Number
3834
Statistics
Frequency in New Testament
3
Morphology of Biblical Greek Tag
v-1d(1a)
Definition
Greek-English Concordance for ξυράω
| Acts 21:24 | Take these men and purify yourself along with them and pay their expenses that they may shave (xyrēsontai | ξυρήσονται | fut mid ind 3 pl) their heads, and everyone will know that there is nothing in what they have been told about you, but that you yourself walk keeping the law. |
| 1 Corinthians 11:5 | but any wife who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered disgraces her head, for it is one and the same as a woman who has her head shaved (exyrēmenē | ἐξυρημένῃ | perf pass ptcp dat sg fem). |
| 1 Corinthians 11:6 | For if a woman will not cover her head, she should cut her hair short. But if it is disgraceful for a woman to have her hair cut short or have her head shaved (xyrasthai | ξυρᾶσθαι | pres mid inf ), she should cover her head. |
