KJV dictionary & concordance
A frame or carrier upon which a dead body, coffin, or person prepared for burial is borne.
Definition sources
First occurrence: 2 Samuel 3:31
Complete exact-word concordance
¶ And David said to Joab, and to all the people that were with him, Rend your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. And king David himself followed the bier.
¶ And Dauid said to Ioab, and to all the people that were with him, Rent your clothes, and girde you with sackecloth, and mourne before Abner. And king Dauid himselfe followed the biere.
1611 marginal noteHeb. bed.
And he came and touched the bier: and they that bare him stood still. And he said, Young man, I say unto thee, Arise.
And hee came and touched the beere (and they that bare him, stood still.) And he said, Yong man, I say vnto thee, Arise.
1611 marginal noteOr, coffin.
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Historical English dictionary sources
A carriage or frame of wood for conveying dead human bodies to the grave.
