buryingplace

English

Etymology

From burying +‎ place.

Noun

buryingplace (plural buryingplaces)

The place where a dead person is buried.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 23:4:
  I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a buryingplace [translating קֶבֶר (kéver)] with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.

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