Word 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.)