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sepulchre

 

  4  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Sepulcher  \Sep"ul*cher\,  Sepulchre  \Sep"ul*chre\,  n.  [OE. 
  sepulcre,  OF  sepulcre,  F.  s['e]pulcre,  fr  L.  sepulcrum 
  sepulchrum  fr  sepelire  to  bury.] 
  The  place  in  which  the  dead  body  of  a  human  being  is 
  interred,  or  a  place  set  apart  for  that  purpose;  a  grave;  a 
  tomb. 
 
  The  stony  entrance  of  this  sepulcher.  --Shak. 
 
  The  first  day  of  the  week  cometh  Mary  Magdalene  early, 
  when  it  was  yet  dark,  unto  the  sepulcher.  --John  xx  1. 
 
  {A  whited  sepulcher}.  Fig.:  Any  person  who  is  fair  outwardly 
  but  unclean  or  vile  within.  See  --Matt.  xxiii.  27. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Sepulcher  \Sep"ul*cher\,  Sepulchre  \Sep"ul*chre\,  v.  t.  [imp.  & 
  p.  p.  {Sepulchered}or  {Sepulchred};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Sepulchering}or  {Sepulchring}.] 
  To  bury;  to  inter;  to  entomb;  as  obscurely  sepulchered. 
 
  And  so  sepulchered  in  such  pomp  dost  lie  That  kings  for 
  such  a  tomb  would  wish  to  die.  --Milton. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  sepulchre 
  n  :  a  chamber  that  is  used  as  a  grave  [syn:  {burial  chamber},  {sepulcher}, 
  {sepulture}] 
 
  From  Easton's  1897  Bible  Dictionary  [easton]: 
 
  Sepulchre 
  first  mentioned  as  purchased  by  Abraham  for  Sarah  from  Ephron 
  the  Hittite  (Gen.  23:20).  This  was  the  "cave  of  the  field  of 
  Machpelah,"  where  also  Abraham  and  Rebekah  and  Jacob  and  Leah 
  were  burried  (79:29-32).  In  Acts  7:16  it  is  said  that  Jacob  was 
  "laid  in  the  sepulchre  that  Abraham  bought  for  a  sum  of  money  of 
  the  sons  of  Emmor  the  father  of  Sychem."  It  has  been  proposed, 
  as  a  mode  of  reconciling  the  apparent  discrepancy  between  this 
  verse  and  Gen.  23:20,  to  read  Acts  7:16  thus:  "And  they  [i.e., 
  our  fathers]  were  carried  over  into  Sychem,  and  laid  in  the 
  sepulchre  that  Abraham  bought  for  a  sum  of  money  of  the  sons  of 
  Emmor  [the  son]  of  Sychem."  In  this  way  the  purchase  made  by 
  Abraham  is  not  to  be  confounded  with  the  purchase  made  by  Jacob 
  subsequently  in  the  same  district.  Of  this  purchase  by  Abraham 
  there  is  no  direct  record  in  the  Old  Testament.  (See  {TOMB}.)




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