Quick Definition
κειρία, ας, ἡ n.f. a bandage, grave clothes
Strong's Definition
of uncertain affinity; a swathe, i.e. winding-sheet
KJV Usage: graveclothes
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
κειρία, -as, 7, α band, either for a bed-girth (Schol. ad Arstph. ἂν. 817 κειρία- εἶδος ζώνης ἐκ σχοινίων. παρεοιkos ἱμάντι, 7 δεσμοῦσι τὰς κλίνας, cf. Proy. vii. 16; [Plut. Alcib. 16, 1]), or for tying up a corpse after it has been swathed in linen: in the latter sense in Jn. xi. 44; [al. take it here of the swathings themselves ].
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
κειρία keiria 1x
a bandage, swath, in NT pl. graveclothes, Jn. 11:44*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
κειρία, -ας, ἡ,
[in LXX: Pr 7:16 (מַרְבַּדִּים)*;] a vernacular word, a bed-cord (Aristoph., AV., 816;Pr 7:16.).
In pl., swathings (cf. Field, Notes, 96 f.): Jo 11:44.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
κειρία. This vernacular word (cf. Kennedy Sources, p. 40) is found in the NT only in Jn 1144. The form κηρία, which is read in this passage by AXAA a/., occurs several times in the fragments of a medical papyrus, P Lond 155 (i/ii A.D.) (= 11. p. xiv.), edited by Kalbfleisch ad Scholas (Rostock, 1892), p. 511: 34 α΄. Field (Votes, p. 96) quotes Moschopulus’ definition: keipla* 6 τῶν νηπίων δεσμός, ἤγουν 7 κοινῶς φασκία (fascia), καὶ ἢ δεσμοῦσι τοὺς νεκρούς.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
κειρία (keiria) — graveclothes. κειρία, ἡ, girth of a bedstead, [LXX+5th c.BC+]
II. swathing-band, bandage, written κηρία, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]; καιρία (which see); κιρία, [Refs 3rd c.BC+]; grave-clothes, in form κειρίαι (variant{κηρίαι}) [NT]
III. κηρίαι, tapeworms, [Refs 5th c.BC+]