Sindon means “byssos” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H4616 — maan in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G4616 σινδών (sindon) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. sindon (sin-done') n. 1. byssos, i.e. bleached linen (the cloth or a garment of it) [of uncertain (perhaps foreign) origin] It has 7 linked Bible usages across 5 books. Visible English usage signals include linen. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
sindon (sin-done') n. 1. byssos, i.e. bleached linen (the cloth or a garment of it) [of uncertain (perhaps foreign) origin] KJV: (fine) linen (cloth)
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G4616. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
linen
Usage: σινδών, -όνος, ἡ [in LXX: Jdg.14:12-13 A, Pro.31:24 (סָדִין), 1Ma.10:64 A * ;] fine linen cloth; __(a) as used for swathing dead bodies (cf. Hdt., ii, 86): Mat.27:59, Mrk.15:46, Luk.23:53; __(b) a garment or wrap of this material (cf. ICC, Jg, l.with): Mrk.14:51-52.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render sindon, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G4616 (σινδών) appears 2 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
5 indexed usages in New Testament.
And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth,
And there followed him a certain young man, having a linen cloth cast about his naked body; and the young men laid hold on him:
And he left the linen cloth, and fled from them naked.
2 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And Samson said to them, I propound you a riddle: if ye will indeed tell it me, and discover it within the seven days of the feast, I will give you thirty sheets and thirty changes of raiment.
She makes fine linens, And sells girdles to the Canaanites: She opens her mouth heedfully and with propriety, And controls her tongue.
First 7 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G4616.
And Samson said to them, I propound you a riddle: if ye will indeed tell it me, and discover it within the seven days of the feast, I will give you thirty sheets and thirty changes of raiment.
She makes fine linens, And sells girdles to the Canaanites: She opens her mouth heedfully and with propriety, And controls her tongue.
And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth,
And there followed him a certain young man, having a linen cloth cast about his naked body; and the young men laid hold on him:
And he left the linen cloth, and fled from them naked.
And he bought fine linen, and took him down, and wrapped him in the linen, and laid him in a sepulchre which was hewn out of a rock, and rolled a stone unto the door of the sepulchre.
And he took it down, and wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a sepulchre that was hewn in stone, wherein never man before was laid.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G4616, grouped by book.
Sindon (Strong's G4616) is a Greek word most simply glossed "byssos". sindon (sin-done') n. 1. byssos, i.e. bleached linen (the cloth or a garment of it) [of uncertain (perhaps foreign) origin]
This page currently indexes 7 linked usages for Strong's G4616 across 5 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G4616 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as linen. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 2 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament for Strong's G4616, with linked reader references where each row is available.