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Bier
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words
originally denoted a receptacle for containing the bones of the dead, "a cinerary urn;" then "a coffin," Genesis 50:26; Job 21:32; then, "the funeral couch of bier" on which the Jews bore their dead to burial, Luke 7:14 .
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Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'Bier'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ved/b/bier.html. 1940.