σουδάριον soudárion

Meaning

a sudarium (sweat-cloth), i.e. towel (for wiping the perspiration from the face, or binding the face of a corpse)

In the King James Version: handkerchief, napkin

Derivation: of Latin origin;

Where it is used

• Luke 19:20 Then another servant came and said, ‘Master, here is your mina, which I have laid away in a piece of cloth.
• John 11:44 The man who had been dead came out with his hands and feet bound in strips of linen, and his face wrapped in a cloth. “Unwrap him and let him go,” Jesus told them.
• John 20:7 The cloth that had been around Jesus’ head was rolled up, lying separate from the linen cloths.
• Acts 19:12 so that even handkerchiefs and aprons that had touched him were taken to the sick, and the diseases and evil spirits left them.