σορός

σορός — sorós

σορός, σοροῦ, ἡ, an urn or receptacle for keeping the bones of the dead (Homer, Iliad 23, 91); a coffin (Gen 50:26; Herodotus 1, 68; 2, 78; Aristophanes, Aeschines, Plutarch, others); the funeral-couch or bier on which the Jews carried their dead forth to burial (see B. D. American edition under the word; Edersheim, Jesus the Messiah, i., 555f): Luk 7:14.