Lexicon aniptos: unwashed Original Word: ἄνιπτος, ονPart of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: aniptos Phonetic Spelling: (an'-ip-tos) Short Definition: unwashed Definition: unwashed, ceremonially unclean. HELPS word-Studies 449 ániptos (from 1 /A "not" and 3538 /níptō, "wash") – properly, not washed; (figuratively) unclean in the ceremonial (religious) sense. What made something ceremonially "unclean"? This issue in Judaism was unfortunately defined by confused rabbis rather than Scripture. Accordingly, Jesus had to exposed it for the oppressive, fruitless legalism that it was. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom alpha (as a neg. prefix) and niptóDefinitionunwashed NASB Translationunwashed (2).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 449: ἄνιπτοςἄνιπτος, ὄν ( νίπτω to wash), unwashed: Matthew 15:20; Mark 7:2, and R L marginal reading in 5. ( Homer, Iliad 6, 266, etc.)
Strong's unwashed. From a (as a negative particle) and a presumed derivative of nipto; without ablution -- unwashen. see GREEK a see GREEK nipto |
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