ἐκμάσσωekmássō
to wipe off: with acc, Luke 7:38, Luke 7:44, John 11:2, John 12:3, John 13:5.
Greek (New Testament) · G1591
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 5 times in the Bible.
- Luke 7:38 Then she knelt behind him at his feet, weeping. Her tears fell on his feet, and she wiped them off with her hair. Then she kept kissing his feet and putting perfume on them.
- Luke 7:44 Then he turned to the woman and said to Simon, “Look at this woman kneeling here. When I entered your home, you didn’t offer me water to wash the dust from my feet, but she has washed them with her tears and wiped them with her hair.
- John 11:2 This is the Mary who later poured the expensive perfume on the Lord’s feet and wiped them with her hair. Her brother, Lazarus, was sick.
- John 12:3 Then Mary took a twelve-ounce jar of expensive perfume made from essence of nard, and she anointed Jesus’ feet with it, wiping his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance.
- John 13:5 and poured water into a basin. Then he began to wash the disciples’ feet, drying them with the towel he had around him.
Source: G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922), public domain.