|ˈsɛp(ə)lkə|
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Description
a place of burial; A small room or monument, cut in rock or built of stone, in which a dead person is laid or buried.
Examples
- Both deny charges of ‘violating a sepulchre without the authority of the relatives or executors of said unknown person’.
- He got to a sepulcher where four Satanists were gathered.
- The place seemed as an open tomb, an unsealed sepulcher, a deathly resting place, quietly awaiting corpses to crowd its halls and fulfill its purpose.
- And they said among themselves, Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulchre?
- In contrast, Moses arranged for his own discreet burial so that ‘no man knoweth of his sepulcher unto this day’.
- His servants therefore took him out of that chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had; and they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died, and was buried in one of the sepulchres of his fathers.
- The picture provides this legend with monumentality since it turns it into an act of mourning performed on a sepulchre.
- So they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, and setting a watch.
Translation
- гробница, могила, склеп, погребать, предавать земле
