3587. xurao

Strong's Concordance

xurao: I shave

Original Word: ξυράω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: xurao
Phonetic Spelling: (xoo-rah'-o)
Definition: to shave
Usage: I shave, shear, cut off the hair.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon

STRONGS NT 3587: ξυράω

ξυράω (a later form, from Diodorus (1, 84) down, for ξυρέω, which the earlier writers used from Herodotus down; (Winers Grammar, 24; Buttmann, 63 (55); especially Alexander Buttmann (1873) Ausf. Spr. ii., p. 53)), ξυρῷ: perfect passive participle ἐξυρημενος; middle, present infinitive ξυρᾶσθαι (for which some would read (1 Corinthians 11:6) ξυρᾶσθαι (1 aorist middle infinitive from ξυρῷ); see WH's Appendix, p. 166); 1 aorist subjunctive 3 person plural ξυρήσωνται (but T Tr WH read the future ξυρήσονται); (from ξυρόν a razor, and this from ξύω); the Sept. for גִּלַּח; to shear, shave: passive 1 Corinthians 11:5; middle to get oneself shaved, 1 Corinthians 11:6; 1 Corinthians 11:6; with an accusative specifying the object more precisely (cf. Buttmann, § 134, 7; Winer's Grammar, § 32, 5): τήν κεφαλήν, Acts 21:21 (the Sept. Numbers 6:9, 19: Leviticus 21:5; τάς ὀφρύας, Herodotus 2, 66; τό σῶμα, 2, 37).

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

shave.

From a derivative of the same as xulon (meaning a razor); to shave or "shear" the hair -- shave.

see GREEK xulon

Forms and Transliterations

εξυρημενη ἐξυρημένῃ εξυρημένοι εξύρησαν εξυρήσατο εξυρήσε εξύρησε εξύρησεν ξύη ξυρασθαι ξυράσθαι ξυρᾶσθαι ξυρηθήναι ξυρηθήσεσθε ξυρηθήσεται ξυρηθήσονται ξύρησαι ξυρήσασθαι ξυρήσει ξυρήσεις ξυρήσεται ξύρησιν ξύρησίν ξυρησονται ξυρήσονται ξυρήσωμαι ξυρήσωνται ξυρόν ξυρός ξυρώ ξυστούς ξύων exuremene exurēmenē exyremene exyrēmenē exyreménei exyrēménēi xurasthai xuresontai xurēsontai xyrasthai xyrâsthai xyresontai xyrēsontai xyrḗsontai

Englishman's Concordance

Acts 21:24 V-FIM-3P
GRK: αὐτοῖς ἵνα ξυρήσονται τὴν κεφαλήν
NAS: so that they may shave their heads;
KJV: that they may shave [their] heads:
INT: them that they may shave the head

1 Corinthians 11:5 V-RPM/P-DFS
GRK: αὐτὸ τῇ ἐξυρημένῃ
NAS: as the woman whose head is shaved.
KJV: all one as if she were shaven.
INT: same the with having been shaven

1 Corinthians 11:6 V-PNM/P
GRK: κείρασθαι ἢ ξυρᾶσθαι κατακαλυπτέσθω
NAS: or her head shaved, let her cover
KJV: or shaven, let her be covered.
INT: to be shaved or to be shaven let her be concealed

Strong's Greek 3587
3 Occurrences

ἐξυρημένῃ — 1 Occ.
ξυρᾶσθαι — 1 Occ.
ξυρήσονται — 1 Occ.