Strong's #2751: keiro (pronounced ki'-ro)

a primary verb; to shear:--shear(-er).

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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keirō

1) to sheer: a sheep

2) to get or let be shorn

3) of shearing or cutting short the hair of the head

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primary verb

Usage:

This word is used 4 times:

 

Acts 8:32: "dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his"
Acts 18:18: "him Priscilla and Aquila; having shorn his head in Cenchrea:"
1 Corinthians 11:6: "be not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it be a shame for a woman"
1 Corinthians 11:6: "if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered."