Sepulchre

Definition: Sepulchre

Sepulchre

Noun

1. A chamber that is used as a grave.

Date "sepulchre" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Sepulchre

Domain	Definitions
Bible	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.). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary.
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Specialty Definition: Sepulchre

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

This is an article from the public domain Easton's Bible Dictionary, originally published in 1897.
This article is written from a nineteenth century Christian viewpoint, and may not reflect modern opinions or recent discoveries in Biblical scholarship.
Please help the Wikipedia by bringing this article up to date. 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.) From Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Sepulchre."

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Synonyms: Sepulchre

Synonyms: burial chamber (n), sepulcher (n), sepulture (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Sepulchre

English words defined with "sepulchre": Sepulchered, Sepulchering, sepulchral, Sepulchred, Sepulchring ♦ whited sepulchre. (references)

Specialty definitions using "sepulchre": Gods ♦ Holy Places ♦ Jabesh-Gilead ♦ Kist-vaen, Knights of the Holy Sepulchre ♦ Letters of the Sepulchre ♦ Orthography ♦ Stations. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Sepulchre

Domain	Title
Books	Pel and the Sepulchre Mob (reference) Sepulchre (reference) The Church of the Holy Sepulchre (reference) The Easter Sepulchre in England (Early Drama, Art and Music Reference Series, No 5) (reference) The modern crusaders : a brief history of the equestrian order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem (reference) (more book examples)
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Image Slideshow: Sepulchre

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Photo Album: Sepulchre

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Pool of Hezekiah, Church of the Holy Sepulchre, and Hospice of the Knights of St. John, from Mediterranean Hotel] / P. Bergheim.Credit: Library of Congress.		Church of the Holy Sepulchre, principal door] / P. Bergheim.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Familiar Quotations: Sepulchre

Author	Quotation
Charles Dickens	This dismal Cairo [Illinois], an ugly sepulchre, a grave uncheered by any gleam of promise.
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Use in Literature: Sepulchre

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	For France that whole plain is a sepulchre.
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Non-Fiction Usage: Sepulchre

Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	ORTHOGRAPHY, n. The science of spelling by the eye instead of the ear. Advocated with more heat than light by the outmates of every asylum for the insane. They have had to concede a few things since the time of Chaucer, but are none the less hot in defence of those to be conceded hereafter. A spelling reformer indicted For fudge was before the court cicted. The judge said: "Enough -- His candle we'll snough, And his sepulchre shall not be whicted."
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Usage Frequency: Sepulchre

"Sepulchre" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 85.71% of the time. "Sepulchre" is used about 42 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	85.71%	36	57,479
Noun (proper)	14.29%	6	143,867
Total	100.00%	42	N/A

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Expression: Sepulchre

Expressions using "sepulchre": holy sepulchre ♦ the holy sepulchre ♦ whited sepulchre. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "sepulchre": whited-sepulchre.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Sepulchre

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
cemetery holy sepulchre	17
holy sepulchre	13
church of the holy sepulchre	11
sepulchre	10
holy knight sepulchre	8
equestrian holy jerusalem order sepulchre	5
order sepulchre	4
cemetery holy philadelphia sepulchre	3
holy order sepulchre	2
equestrian holy order sepulchre	2
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Modern Translations: Sepulchre

Language		Translations for "sepulchre"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		varros (Bury, entomb, inearth, inhume, inter, tomb), varr (grave, lair, Mold, mould, shrine, tomb). (various references)

Arabic		‏مدافن, ‏لحد, ‏ضريح (grave, mausoleum, sepulcher, shrine, tomb), ‏جبانة (cemetery, cowardice, graveyard, pusillanimity, timidity), ‏رمس (grave). (various references)

Bulgarian		гробница (bone-yard, crypt, feretory, monument, ossuary, tomb, vault), гроб (feretory, grave, lair, tomb, urn), погребвам (embowel, entomb, inhume, inter). (various references)

Finnish		hautakammio. (various references)

French		sépulcre (sepulcher), tombeau. (various references)

Greek		μνήμα (tomb). (various references)

Hebrew		קבור�" (burial, entombment, interment, tomb), קבר (grave, gravestone, sepulcher, tomb, tombstone). (various references)

Hungarian		síremlék (cenotaph, mausolea, mausoleum, sepulcher, shrine, tomb). (various references)

Italian		sepolcro (grave, sepulcher, shrine, tomb). (various references)

Manx		lhiaght (bed, cairn, carn, couch, lair, lie, lodging place, lying place, standing stone, tomb). (various references)

Pig Latin		epulchresay

Portuguese		sepulcro (grave, sepulcher, tomb), túmulo (cell, grave, mound, sepulcher, tomb, tumulus), enterrar (bed, Bury, earth, entomb, grave, inearth, inhume, inter, lay, sepulcher). (various references)

Romanian		mormânt (cell, collection, grave, last resting-place, Mold, monument, mould, sepulture, shrine, the tomb, tomb, urn). (various references)

Russian		гробница (cist, entombment, feretory, shrine, tomb), могила (cell, grave, last resting-place, the narrow bed, the narrow home, the narrow house, tomb). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		grobnica (crypt, mausoleum, repository, sepulture, tomb, vault). (various references)

Spanish		sepulcro (sepulcher, tomb). (various references)

Swedish		grav (canal, channel, cist, ditch, grave, hole, monument, pit, pole, serious, tomb, trench). (various references)

Turkish		türbe (mausoleum, sepulcher, shrine, tomb), mezar (bed, burial place, grave, rest, sepulcher, tomb, vault), kabir (grave, sepulcher, tomb), gömüt (grave, sepulcher). (various references)

Ukranian		склеп (crypt, ossuary, repository, shroud), гробниця (cist, entombment, feretory, reliquary, tomb, urn). (various references)

Vietnamese		mộ cổ. (various references)

Welsh		beddrod (tomb), bedd (grave, tomb). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Sepulchre

Language	Period	Translations
Old English	450-1100	moldern. (various references)
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Bible Trace: Sepulchre

Language	Date	Source	Luke Chapter 24, Verse 2
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Euron de ton liqon apokekulismenon apo tou mnhmeiou
Latin	405	Vulgate	Et invenerunt lapidem revolutum a monumento
Old English	990	West Saxon	And hig gemetton þæne stan awyltne ofþære byrgene;
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	And thei founden the stoon turned awei fro the graue.
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	And they founde the stone rouled awaye fro the sepulcre
Jacobean English	1611	King James	And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulcher.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	And they saw that the stone had been rolled away.
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Matched Bible Translations: Sepulchre

Language	Luke Chapter 24, Verse 2
Cebuano	Ug ilang nakita ang bato nga giligid na gikan sa lubnganan,
Croatian	Kamen naðoše otkotrljan od groba.
Danish	Og de fandt Stenen bortvæltet fra Graven.
Dutch	En zij vonden den steen afgewenteld van het graf.
Finnish	Ja he havaitsivat kiven vieritetyksi pois haudalta.
French	Elles trouvèrent que la pierre avait été roulée de devant le sépulcre;
German	Sie fanden aber den Stein abgewälzt von dem Grabe
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Di kuburan, mereka mendapati batu penutupnya sudah terguling.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Lalu didapatinya batu sudah tergolek dari kubur itu.
Italian	Trovarono la pietra rotolata via dal sepolcro;
Latvian	Un tâs atrada akmeni no kapa noveltu,
Maori	A rokohanga atu e ratou kua hurihia te kamaka i te urupa.
Norwegian	Men de fant stenen veltet fra graven,
Portuguese	E acharam a pedra revolvida do sepulcro.
Rumanian	Au gqsit piatra rqsturnatq de pe mormknt,
Russian	ОП ОБЫМЙ ЛБНЕОШ ПФЧБМЕООЩН ПФ ЗТП�'Б.
Shuar	Tura iwiarsamu kaya atutkamu urani aan Wáinkiarmiayi.
Spanish	Y hallaron removida la piedra del sepulcro;
Swahili	Walikuta lile jiwe limeviringishwa mbali na kaburi.
Swedish	Och de funno stenen vara bortvältrad från graven.
Uma	Rata hi ria, rahilo-rawo watu po'unca-na tederu' -mi.
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Derivations: Sepulchre

Derivations
	Words beginning with "sepulchre": sepulchred, sepulchres. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Sepulchre

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: sepulcher.
	Words within the letters "c-e-e-h-l-p-r-s-u"
	-1 letter: cupelers, hercules, spherule.
	-2 letters: cupeler, euchres, helpers, lechers, lurches, perches, plusher, recluse, repulse, scruple.
	-3 letters: cereus, ceruse, cheeps, cheers, churls, clepes, creels, creeps, creesh, crepes, cupels, euchre, helper, herpes, lecher, leches, lepers, lucres, lusher, peruse, pulers, pulser, purees, pusher, recuse, repels, rescue, ruches, rupees, rushee, schlep, secure, speech, sphere, spruce, ulcers.
	-4 letters: cepes, ceres.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-e-h-l-p-r-s-u"
	+1 letter: sepulchers, sepulchred, sepulchres.
	+2 letters: lectureship, leprechauns, preschedule, sepulchered.
	+3 letters: lectureships, prescheduled, preschedules, sepulchering, superhelical, superhelices.
	+4 letters: electrophorus, leprechaunish, prescheduling, thermocouples.
	+5 letters: hypermasculine.
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