Word Summary
ekmassō: to knead out, to wipe dry
Original Word: ἐκμάσσωTransliteration: ekmassō
Phonetic Spelling: (ek-mas'-so)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to knead out, to wipe dry
Meaning: to knead out, to wipe dry
Strong's Concordance
wipe.
From ek and the base of massaomai; to knead out, i.e. (by analogy) to wipe dry -- wipe.
see GREEK ek
see GREEK massaomai
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1591: ἐκμάσσωἐκμάσσω; imperfect
ἐξεμασσον; 1 aorist
ἐξεμαξα;
to wipe off, to wipe away: with the accusative of object and dative of instrument,
Luke 7:38, 44;
John 11:2;
John 12:3;
John 13:5. (
Sophocles,
Euripides,
Hippocrates,
Aristotle, others, Sir. 12:11; Baruch 6 (ep. Jer.) 12, 23 (13, 24).)