sepulcher

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We read in the book of John: "There laid they Jesus, therefore, because of the Jews 'preparation day for the sepulcher was nigh at hand".

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  1. noun A burial vault.
  2. noun A receptacle for sacred relics, especially in an altar.
  3. transitive verb To place into a sepulcher; inter.

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  • To the women at the sepulcher, these words, “fear not,” were addressed by the angel. —  Life and Labors of Elder John Kline, the Martyr Missionary
  • We read in the book of John: "There laid they Jesus, therefore, because of the Jews 'preparation day for the sepulcher was nigh at hand". —  Everyone's Blog Posts - A Virtuous Woman
  • Both lead to the self-same sepulcher which in the distance looks white and beautiful but when reached is filled with the bones of dead men There is not much difference after all, when one comes right down to the facts, between the crook who starts out deliberately to get one's money and the fellow who starts out in ignorance and makes great promises of returns that he knows nothing about. —  Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Third Annual Meeting Lancaster, Pennsylvania, December 18 and 19, 1912
  • It was of the unmistakably red color of the other tombs; and Wallace, more excited than he had been in the cougar chase, said it was a sepulcher, and he believed it had never been opened From an elevated point of rock, as high up as I could well climb, I decided both questions with my glass. —  The Last of the Plainsmen
  • Her watchfulness is untiring; she who guarded the sepulcher was the first to approach it, and the last to depart from its awful yet sublime scene. —  The 30,000 Dollar Bequest and Other Stories
 

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  1. Middle English sepulcre, from Old French, from Latin sepulcrum, sepulchrum, from sepultus, past participle of sepelīre, to bury the dead.
 

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/ˈsɛpulkər/
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