Category:Sepulchre

Sep"ul*cher, sep"ul*chre, n. Etym: [oe. sepulcre, of. sepulcre, f. Sépulcre, fr. L. sepulcrum, sepulchrum, fr. sepelire to bury.]

Defn: the place in which the dead body of a human being is interred, Or a place set apart for that purpose; a grave; a tomb. The stony entrance of this sepulcher. Shak. The first day of the week cometh mary magdalene early, when it was Yet dark, unto the sepulcher. John xx. 1. A whited sepulcher. Fig.: Any person who is fair outwardly but Unclean or vile within. See matt. xxiii.27.

Sepulcher; sepulchre Sep"ul*cher, sep"ul*chre, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sepulchered or Sepulchred (p. pr. & vb. n. Sepulchering or sepulchring (.]

Defn: to bury; to inter; to entomb; as, obscurely sepulchered. And so sepulchered in such pomp dost lie that kings for such a tomb Would wish to die. Milton.

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---excerpt from the Illustrated Bible Dictionary

Sepulchre - First mentioned as purchased by Abraham for Sarah from Ephron the Hittite (Genesis 23:20). This was the "cave of the field of Machpelah," where also Abraham and Rebekah and Jacob and Leah were buried (Genesis 49:29). 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 an Genesis 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 not direct record in the Old Testament. (See TOMB.)