Lexicon entry · Greek
G1591ἐκμάσσωekmassō
to wipe offPart of speech: Greek Verb
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And went in and took her place at the back of him, near his feet, weeping, so that his feet were washed with the drops from her eyes, and with her hair she made them dry, and kissing his feet she put the perfume on them.
ἐξέμασσεν exemassen “she was wiping [them]”
And turning to the woman he said to Simon, You see this woman? I came into your house; you did not give me water for my feet: but she has been washing my feet with the drops from her eyes, and drying them with her hair.
ἐξέμαξεν. exemaxen “wiped [them].”
(The Mary whose brother Lazarus was ill, was the Mary who put perfumed oil on the Lord and made his feet dry with her hair.)
ἐκμάξασα ekmaxasa “having wiped”
Then Mary, taking a pound of perfumed oil of great value, put it on the feet of Jesus and made them dry with her hair: and the house became full of the smell of the perfume.
ἐξέμαξεν exemaxen “wiped”
Then he put water into a basin and was washing the feet of the disciples and drying them with the cloth which was round him.
ἐκμάσσειν ekmassein “to wipe [them]”