Greek verb · G3068
λούω
louoloo'-o
to wash
5 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: loúō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G3068is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 27New Testament books
- 5spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G3068
to bathe (the whole person
The King James renders it: wash.
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
louo is rendered "to wash". It stands 5 times in the Greek text, across four books.
- Two of the uses stand in Acts, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.John 13:10Jesus told him, “Whoever has already bathed needs only to wash his feet, and he will be completely clean. And you are clean, though not all of you.”
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
Jesus told him, “Whoever has already bathed needs only to wash his feet, and he will be completely clean. And you are clean, though not all of you.”
John 13:10λελουμένος
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
- Having washed2
- having bathed himself1
- having ourselves washed1
- he washed1
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.
5 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
- ἔλουσεν1
- λελουμένος1
- λελουσμένοι1
- λουσαμένη1
- λούσαντες1
The grammar of each form
- verb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singular1V-AAI-3S
- verb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine plural1V-AAP-NPM
- verb · aorist middle, participle · nominative (subject) · feminine singular1V-AMP-NSF
- verb · perfect middle, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine plural1V-RMP-NPM
- verb · perfect middle, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singular1V-RMP-NSM
John
one use
Jesus told him, “Whoever has already bathed needs only to wash his feet, and he will be completely clean. And you are clean, though not all of you.”
- λελουμένοςleloumenosverb · perfect middle, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: having bathed himself
Acts
two uses
At that time, however, she became sick and died, and her body was washed and placed in an upper room.
- λούσαντεςlousantesverb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: Having washed
At that hour of the night, the jailer took them and washed their wounds. And without delay, he and all his household were baptized.
- ἔλουσενelousenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: he washed
Hebrews
one use
let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
- λελουσμένοιlelousmenoiverb · perfect middle, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: having ourselves washed
2 Peter
one use
Of them the proverbs are true: “A dog returns to its vomit,” and, “A sow that is washed goes back to her wallowing in the mud.”
- λουσαμένηlousameneverb · aorist middle, participle · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: having washed
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.