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What Does “Bury” Mean in the Bible?

To lay a dead person in the grave. “Burial” is the grave or the act of burying.

Where it appears in the Bible

John 19:40-42

What the Bible says

John 19:40-42

40They took therefore the body of Jesus, and bound it in linen cloths, with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury. 41Now there was in the place where he was crucified, a garden; and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein no man yet had been laid. 42There, therefore, because of the parasceve of the Jews, they laid Jesus, because the sepulchre was nigh at hand.

Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.

Source: RAE, “sepultar” and “sepultura”

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