Lexicon aponiptó: to wash off Original Word: ἀπονίπτωPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: aponiptó Phonetic Spelling: (ap-on-ip'-to) Short Definition: I wash dirt off Definition: I wash dirt off. HELPS word-Studies 633 aponíptō (from 3538 /níptō, "wash," strengthened by the prefix, 575 /apó, "away from") – properly, wash away from (used only in Mt 27:24). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom apo and niptóDefinitionto wash off NASB Translationwashed (1).
Thayer's 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.)
Strong's wash. From apo and nipto; to wash off (reflexively, one's own hands symbolically) -- wash. see GREEK apo see GREEK nipto |
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