Quick Definition
a bandage, grave clothes
Strong's Definition
a swathe, i.e. winding-sheet
Derivation: of uncertain affinity;
KJV Usage: graveclothes
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
κειρία, κειριας, ἡ, a band, either for a bed-girth (Schol. ad Aristophanes av. 817 κειρία. εἶδος ζώνης ἐκ σχοινίων, παρεοικος ἱμάντι, ἡ δεσμουσι τάς κλίνας, cf. Pro_7:16; (Plutarch, Alcib. 16, 1)), or for tying up a corpse after it has been swathed in linen: in the latter sense in Joh_11:44; (others take it here of the swathings themselves).
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
κειρία keiria 1x
a bandage, swath, in NT pl. graveclothes, Joh_11:44
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
κειρία , -ας , ἡ ,
[in LXX : Pro_7:16 ( H4765 ) * ;]
a Vernacular word,
1, a bed-cord ( Aristoph ., AV ., 816; Pr, l.c .).
2. In pl., swathings ( cf. Field, Notes , 96 f .): Joh_11:44 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
κειρία [page 339]
This vernacular word (cf. Kennedy Sources , p. 40) is found in the NT only in Joh_11:44 . The form κηρία , which is read in this passage by ΑΧΔΛ a. , occurs several times in the fragments of a medical papyrus, P Lond 155 (i/ii A.D.) (= II. p. xiv.), edited by Kalbfleisch ad Scholas (Rostock,1892), p. 5 ii. 24 al. . Field ( Notes , p. 96) quotes Moschopulus definition : κειρία· ὁ τῶν νηπίων δεσμός , ἤγουν ἡ κοινῶς φασκία (fascia), καὶ η δεσμοῦσι τοὺς νεκρούς .
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
κειρία κειρία, ἡ, "the cord or girth of a bedstead", Lat. instita, Ar. in pl. "swathings, grave-clothes", NTest.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
κειρία, -ας, ἡ
[in LXX: Pro.7:16 (מַרְבַד)* ;]
a vernacular word,
__1 1, a bed-cord (Aristoph., AV., 816; Pr, l.with).
__2. In pl., swathings (cf. Field, Notes, 96 f.): Jhn.11:44.†
(AS)