Word Summary
gnapheus: one who cleans woolen cloth
Original Word: γναφεύςTransliteration: gnapheus
Phonetic Spelling: (gnaf-yuce')
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Short Definition: one who cleans woolen cloth
Meaning: one who cleans woolen cloth
Strong's Concordance
cleaner, launderer
By variation for a derivative from knapto (to tease cloth); a cloth-dresser -- fuller.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1102: γναφεύςγναφεύς,
γναφέως,
ὁ (also (earlier)
κναφεύς, from
γνάπτω or
κνάπτω to card),
a fuller:
Mark 9:3. (
Herodotus,
Xenophon, and following; the
Sept. Isaiah 7:3;
Isaiah 36:2;
2 Kings 18:17.)