Quick Definition
a bier, an open coffin
Strong's Definition
a funereal receptacle (urn, coffin), i.e. (by analogy) a bier
Derivation: probably akin to the base of G4987 (σωρεύω);
KJV Usage: bier
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
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.
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
σορός soros 1x
a coffer; an urn for receiving the ashes of the dead; a coffin; in NT a bier, Luk_7:14
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
σορός , -οῦ , ἡ ,
[in LXX : Gen_50:26 ( H727 ), Job_21:32 A * ;]
(a) a cinerary urn ( Hom .);
(b) a coffin ( Hdt ., i, 68, 3, a1.): Luk_7:14 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
σορός [page 581]
a bier ( Luk_7:14 ) : cf. P Lond 122 .97 (iv/A.D.) (= I. p. 119) ὁ ἐπὶ τῆς ζυρνίνῃ ( l . ζμυρνίνῃ ) σορῷ κατακείμενος , and ib. 121 .236 (iii/A.D.) (= I. p. 92) ὁ ἐπὶ σωρῷ κατακείμενος . From the inscrr. we may cite the sepulchral Kaibel 336 .2 εἰμὶ δ᾽ Ἀλεξανδρεύς , τῶν δὲ [σ ]ορ [ῶν ] ὁ μέσος , and C. and B. ii. p. 717, No. 651 (mid. iii/A.D.), where two Christian soldiers erect for themselves τὸν βωμὸν καὶ τὴν κατ᾽ αὐτοῦ σορόν , a symbolic bier carved on the altar, and in the usual manner warn off intruders from the family vault : no one is to place there ξενὸν νεκρὸν ἢ σορόν , i.e. a strange body or a bier that has carried it.
See also the inscr. on the tomb of a iv/A.D. Lycaonian Bishop, as published by W. M. Calder in Exp VII. vi. p. 387 .18 ἐποίησα ἐμαυτῷ πέ [λτα τ ]ε καὶ σορὸν ἐν ᾗ τὰ προ [γεγραμένα ] ταῦτα ἐποίησα ἐπιγρ (ά )φιν ἐμὸν τῆς τε ἐκ [δοχῆς ] τοῦ γένους μου , I made myself a monument and sarcophagus on which I had the above engraved, on (this my tomb) and the tomb of the successors of my race, and Cagnat IV. 245 .2 ἔθη ]κα τὴν σορὸν ἐμαυτῷ [καὶ τῇ συμβίῳ μου . In P Hib I. 67 .14 (B.C. 228) (= Chrest. I. p. 366 ) σορώϊον is cloth used for burials.
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
σορός σορός, "a vessel for holding" anything, esp. "a cinerary urn", Il. :— "a coffin", Hdt. , Ar. as nickname of an old man or woman, Ar.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
σορός, -οῦ, ἡ
[in LXX: Gen.50:26 (אָרוֹן), Job.21:32 A * ;]
__(a) a cinerary urn (Hom.);
__(b) a coffin (Hdt., i, 68, 3, a1.): Luk.7:14.†
(AS)