Genesis 18:4
Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree:
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Wash
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Acts 22:16
And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord.
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כָּבַס
kâbaç · kaw-bas'
39 times translated as this KJV form51 total Strong's occurrences
to trample; hence, to wash (properly, by stamping with the feet), whether literal (including the fulling process) or figurative
Strong's KJV usage: fuller, wash(-ing).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Exodus 19:10Strong's last: Jeremiah 4:14
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râchats · raw-khats'
35 times translated as this KJV form72 total Strong's occurrences
to lave (the whole or a part of a thing)
Strong's KJV usage: bathe (self), wash (self).
Strong's first: Genesis 18:4Strong's last: Ezekiel 23:40
Open full H7364 profile →νίπτω
níptō · nip'-to
11 times translated as this KJV form19 total Strong's occurrences
to cleanse (especially the hands or the feet or the face); ceremonially, to perform ablution
Strong's KJV usage: :--wash.
Strong's first: Matthew 6:17Strong's last: John 13:14
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baptízō · bap-tid'-zo
1 times translated as this KJV form89 total Strong's occurrences
to immerse, submerge; to make whelmed (i.e. fully wet); used only (in the New Testament) of ceremonial ablution, especially (technically) of the ordinance of Christian baptism
Strong's KJV usage: :--Baptist, baptize, wash.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Mark 7:4Strong's last: Mark 7:4
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bréchō · brekh'-o
1 times translated as this KJV form8 total Strong's occurrences
to moisten (especially by a shower)
Strong's KJV usage: :--(send) rain, wash.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Luke 7:38Strong's last: Luke 7:38
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H7364
And if any man's seed of copulation go out from him, then he shall wash all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the even.
H3526
And whosoever toucheth her bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
H3526
And whosoever toucheth any thing that she sat upon shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
H3526
And whosoever toucheth those things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
H7364
He shall put on the holy linen coat, and he shall have the linen breeches upon his flesh, and shall be girded with a linen girdle, and with the linen mitre shall he be attired: these are holy garments; therefore shall he wash his flesh in water, and so put them on.
H7364
And he shall wash his flesh with water in the holy place, and put on his garments, and come forth, and offer his burnt offering, and the burnt offering of the people, and make an atonement for himself, and for the people.
H3526
And he that let go the goat for the scapegoat shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward come into the camp.
H3526
And he that burneth them shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp.
H3526
And every soul that eateth that which died of itself, or that which was torn with beasts, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger, he shall both wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even: then shall he be clean.
H3526
But if he wash them not, nor bathe his flesh; then he shall bear his iniquity.
H7364
The soul which hath touched any such shall be unclean until even, and shall not eat of the holy things, unless he wash his flesh with water.
English meaning and historical usage.
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wash
WASH, verb transitive [G.]
1. To cleanse by ablution, or by rubbing in water; as, to wash the hands or the body; to wash garments.
2. To wet; to fall on and moisten; as, the rain washes the flowers or plants.
3. To overflow. The tides wash the meadows.
4. To overflow or dash against; to cover with water; as, the waves wash the strand or shore; the sea washes the rocks on the shore or beach.
5. To scrub in water; as, to wash a deck or a floor.
6. To separate extraneous matter from; as, to wash ore; to wash grain.
7. In painting, to lay a color over any work with a pencil, to give it the proper tints, and make it appear more natural. Thus work is washed with a pale red to imitate brick, etc.
8. To rub over with some liquid substance; as, to wash trees fro removing insects or diseases.
9. To squeeze and cleanse in water; as, to wash wool. So sheep are said to be washed, when they are immersed in water and their wool squeezed, by which means it is cleansed.
10. To cleanse by a current of water; as, showers wash the streets.
11. To overlay with a thin coat of metal; as steel washed with silver.
12. To purify from the pollution of sin.
But ye are washed, but ye are sanctified. 1 Corinthians 6:11.
To wash a ship, to bring all her guns to one side to make her heel, and then to wash and scrape her side.
WASH, verb intransitive
1. To perform the act of ablution.
WASH in Jordan seven times. 2 Kings 5:10. [Elliptical.]
2. To perform the business of cleansing clothes in water.
She can wash and scour.
To wash off, in calico-printing, to soak and rinse printed calicoes, to dissolve and remove the gum and paste.
WASH, noun
1. Alluvial matter; substances collected and deposited by water; as the wash of a river.
2. A bog; a marsh; a fen.
Neptunes salt wash
3. A cosmetic; as a wash for the face, to help the complexion.
4. A lotion; a medical liquid preparation for external application.
5. A superficial stain or color.
6. Waste liquor of a kitchen for hogs.
7. The act of washing the clothes of a family; or the whole quantity washed at once. There is a great wash or a small wash
8. With distillers, the fermentable liquor made b dissolving the proper subject for fermentation and distillation in common water. In the distillery of malt, the wash is made by mixing the water hot, with the malt ground into meal.
9. The shallow part of a river, or arm of the sea; as the wastes in Lincolnshire.
10. The blade of an oar; the thin part, which enters the water and by whose impulse the boat is moved.
11. The color laid on a picture to vary its tints.
12. A substance laid on boards or other work for beauty or preservation.
13. A thin coat of metal.
14. In the west Indies, a mixture of dunder, molasses, water and scummings, for distillation.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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