Dict: easton - Funeral

Funeral @ Burying was among the Jews the only mode of disposing of corpses kjv@Genesis:23:19 kjv@Genesis:25:9 kjv@Genesis:35:8 -9, etc.). The first traces of burning the dead are found in kjv@1Samuel:31:12. The burning of the body was affixed by the law of Moses as a penalty to certain crimes kjv@Leviticus:20:14 kjv@Leviticus:21:9). To leave the dead unburied was regarded with horror (kjvKings:13:22; 14:11; 16:4; 21:24, etc.). In the earliest times of which we have record kinsmen carried their dead to the grave kjv@Genesis:25:9 kjv@Genesis:35:29; kjv@Judges:16:31), but in later times this was done by others kjv@Amos:6:16). Immediately after decease the body was washed, and then wrapped in a large cloth kjv@Acts:9:37; kjv@Matthew:27:59; kjv@Mark:15:46). In the case of persons of distinction, aromatics were laid on the folds of the cloth kjv@John:19:39; comp. kjv@John:12:7). As a rule the burial (q.v.) took place on the very day of the death kjv@Acts:5:6 kjv@Acts:5:10), and the body was removed to the grave in an open coffin or on a bier kjv@Luke:7:14). After the burial a funeral meal was usually given ( kjv@2Samuel:3:35; kjv@Jeremiah:16:5-7; kjv@Hosea:9:4).