Greek verb · G3538
νίπτω
niptonip'-to
to wash
17 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: níptō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G3538is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 27New Testament books
- 13spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G3538
to cleanse (especially the hands or the feet or the face); ceremonially, to perform ablution
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
nipto is rendered "to wash". It stands 17 times in the Greek text, across four books.
- Thirteen of the uses stand in John, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 6:17But when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face,
- The Greek text spells it thirteen different ways.
The first use
But when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face,
Matthew 6:17νίψαι
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Thirteen of the word's seventeen uses are in John.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- to wash3
- washed2
- do wash1
- do wash yourself1
- do wash, yourself1
- do wash. yourself1
- having washed1
- He had washed1
- I shall wash1
- I washed1
- shall You wash1
- she has washed1
and 2 more, 17 uses in all
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| νιπτήρ | nipter | wash basin | Uses1 |
All 17, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
13 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
- νίψαι3
- ἔνιψεν2
- νίπτειν2
- ἔνιψα1
- ἐνιψάμην1
- ἐνίψατο1
- νίπτεις1
- νίπτονται1
- νιψάμενος1
- νίψασθαι1
- νίψῃς1
- νίψω1
and 1 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- verb · aorist middle, command · 2nd person singular3V-AMM-2S
- verb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singular2V-AAI-3S
- verb · present active, infinitive (“to…”)2V-PAN
- verb · aorist active, indicative · 1st person singular1V-AAI-1S
- verb · aorist active, subjunctive · 1st person singular1V-AAS-1S
- verb · aorist active, subjunctive · 2nd person singular1V-AAS-2S
- verb · aorist middle, indicative · 1st person singular1V-AMI-1S
- verb · aorist middle, indicative · 3rd person singular1V-AMI-3S
- verb · aorist middle, infinitive (“to…”)1V-AMN
- verb · aorist middle, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singular1V-AMP-NSM
- verb · aorist middle, subjunctive · 3rd person plural1V-AMS-3P
- verb · present active, indicative · 2nd person singular1V-PAI-2S
Matthew
two uses
But when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face,
- νίψαιnipsaiverb · aorist middle, command · 2nd person singulartagged: do wash, yourself
“Why do Your disciples break the tradition of the elders? They do not wash their hands before they eat.”
- νίπτονταιniptontaiverb · present middle, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: they wash
Mark
one use
Now in holding to the tradition of the elders, the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat until they wash their hands ceremonially.
- νίψωνταιnipsontaiverb · aorist middle, subjunctive · 3rd person pluraltagged: they shall wash
John
thirteen uses
Then He told him, “Go, wash in the Pool of Siloam” (which means “Sent”). So the man went and washed, and came back seeing.
- νίψαιnipsaiverb · aorist middle, command · 2nd person singulartagged: do wash yourself
- ἐνίψατοenipsatoverb · aorist middle, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: washed
He answered, “The man they call Jesus made some mud and anointed my eyes, and He told me to go to Siloam and wash. So I went and washed and received my sight.”
- νίψαιnipsaiverb · aorist middle, command · 2nd person singulartagged: do wash. yourself
- νιψάμενοςnipsamenosverb · aorist middle, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: having washed
So the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. The man answered, “He put mud on my eyes, and I washed, and now I can see.”
- ἐνιψάμηνenipsamenverb · aorist middle, indicative · 1st person singulartagged: I washed
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.
- νίπτεινnipteinverb · present active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to wash
He came to Simon Peter, who asked Him, “Lord, are You going to wash my feet?”
- νίπτειςnipteisverb · present active, indicative · 2nd person singulartagged: do wash
“Never shall You wash my feet!” Peter told Him. Jesus answered, “Unless I wash you, you have no part with Me.”
- νίψῃςnipsesverb · aorist active, subjunctive · 2nd person singulartagged: shall You wash
- νίψωnipsoverb · aorist active, subjunctive · 1st person singulartagged: I shall wash
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.”
- νίψασθαιnipsasthaiverb · aorist middle, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to wash
When Jesus had washed their feet and put on His outer garments, He reclined with them again and asked, “Do you know what I have done for you?
- ἔνιψενenipsenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: He had washed
So if I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet.
- ἔνιψαenipsaverb · aorist active, indicative · 1st person singulartagged: washed
- νίπτεινnipteinverb · present active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to wash
1 Timothy
one use
and well known for good deeds such as bringing up children, entertaining strangers, washing the feet of the saints, imparting relief to the afflicted, and devoting herself to every good work.
- ἔνιψενenipsenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: she has 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.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.