Lexical Summary aponiptō: to wash off Original Word: ἀπονίπτωTransliteration: aponiptō Phonetic Spelling: (ap-on-ip'-to) Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to wash off Meaning: to wash off Strong's Concordance wash. From apo and nipto; to wash off (reflexively, one's own hands symbolically) -- wash. see GREEK apo see GREEK nipto Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 633: ἀπονίπτωἀπονίπτω: to wash off; 1 aorist middle ἀπενιψαμην; in middle to wash oneself off, to wash off for oneself: τάς χεῖρας, Matthew 27:24, cf. Deuteronomy 21:6f (The earlier Greeks say ἀπονίζω — but with future ἀπονιψω, 1 aorist ἀπενιψα; the later, as Theophrastus, char. 25 (30 (17)); Plutarch, Phocylides, 18; Athen. iv. c. 31, p. 149 c., ἀπονίπτω, although this is found (but in the middle) even in Homer, Odyssey 18, 179.) |
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