Greek verb · G1591
ἐκμάσσω
ekmassoek-mas'-so
to wipe off
5 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ekmássō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G1591is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 27New Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G1591
to knead out, i.e. (by analogy) to wipe dry
The King James renders it: wipe.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
ekmasso is rendered "to wipe off". It stands 5 times in the Greek text, across two books.
- Three of the uses stand in John, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Luke 7:38As she stood behind Him at His feet weeping, she began to wet His feet with her tears and wipe them with her hair. Then she kissed His feet and anointed them with the perfume.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
As she stood behind Him at His feet weeping, she began to wet His feet with her tears and wipe them with her hair. Then she kissed His feet and anointed them with the perfume.
Luke 7:38ἐξέμασσεν
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- wiped2
- having wiped1
- she was wiping1
- to wipe1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- ἐξέμαξεν2
- ἐκμάξασα1
- ἐκμάσσειν1
- ἐξέμασσεν1
The grammar of each form
- verb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singular2V-AAI-3S
- verb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · feminine singular1V-AAP-NSF
- verb · imperfect active, indicative · 3rd person singular1V-IAI-3S
- verb · present active, infinitive (“to…”)1V-PAN
Luke
two uses
As she stood behind Him at His feet weeping, she began to wet His feet with her tears and wipe them with her hair. Then she kissed His feet and anointed them with the perfume.
- ἐξέμασσενexemassenverb · imperfect active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: she was wiping
And turning toward the woman, He said to Simon, “Do you see this woman? When I entered your house, you did not give Me water for My feet, but she wet My feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair.
- ἐξέμαξενexemaxenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: wiped
John
three uses
(Mary, whose brother Lazarus was sick, was to anoint the Lord with perfume and wipe His feet with her hair.)
- ἐκμάξασαekmaxasaverb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: having wiped
Then Mary took about a pint of expensive perfume, made of pure nard, and she anointed Jesus’ feet and wiped them with her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.
- ἐξέμαξενexemaxenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: wiped
After that, He poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and dry them with the towel that was around Him.
- ἐκμάσσεινekmasseinverb · present active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to wipe
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.