Eneilēō (ἐνειλέω) means to wrap or roll something in a cloth — to envelop tightly. It appears once in the NT at Mark 15:46, describing Joseph of Arimathea wrapping Jesus' body in linen for burial. The word's rarity gives it weight: this specific wrapping marks the threshold between death and resurrection.
Joseph of Arimathea wrapping the body of Jesus in linen is an act of costly love and dangerous loyalty. Claiming the body of a crucified criminal required courage and expenditure of political capital. The eneilēō — the wrapping — is also the last human act performed on Jesus before God acts: burial prepares for resurrection. John's Gospel notes that the burial linens were found neatly arranged in the empty tomb — the wrappings left behind by the one who no longer needed them. What was wrapped in death became unwrapped in life.
Birth-wrapping (Luke 2:7 — sparganoō) and death-wrapping (Mark 15:46 — eneilēō) bracket Jesus' earthly life. He enters wrapped in swaddling clothes; he exits wrapped in burial linen. The tomb linens left behind (John 20:6-7) are the NT's quiet testimony to the resurrection: not stolen but abandoned, arranged, no longer needed. Lazarus still needed his removed (John 11:44); Jesus departed his.