UBS Greek Dictionary Article

Form 1

Part of speech: noun, n.

Inflections: ἕλιγμα; -τος

Sense 1: package, bundle, rolled-up object

Semantic entry: 79.121

Semantic domains: Features of Objects

Subdomains: Rolled Up

Definition: (derivative of ἑλίσσω ‘to roll up,’ 79.120: ἑλίσσω / 79.120: ἐντυλίσσω / 79.120: πτύσσω) that which has been rolled up in the form of a package

Notes: This word is only found as a variant reading: φέρων ἕλιγμα σμύρνης καὶ ἀλόης ‘bringing a bundle of myrrh and aloes’ OET JHN 19:39 (apparatus).

Show passage in OET: JHN 19:39

OET-RV JHN 19:39

39 Nikodemos (the one who had first visited Yeshua at night) also came, bringing around 30kg of burial spices.

OET-LV JHN 19:39

39 And Nikodaʸmos also came, the one having _come to him at _the first by _night, bringing a_wrapping of _myrrh and aloe, about a_hundred pounds.

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UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

ἕλιγμα

Form 1

Sense 1: package, bundle, rolled-up object