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Koine Greek wordlink #3188

SR GNT Mat 6:17 ἄλειψαί (aleipsai) ‘you but fasting anoint of you the head’ Strongs=2180 Lemma=aleifō
Word role=verb mood=imperative tense=aorist voice=middle person=2nd number=singular

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Only use of identical word form ἄλειψαί (V-MAM2..S) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ἄλειψαί’ (V-MAM2..S) is always and only glossed as ‘anoint’.

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘aleifō’ have 7 different glosses: ‘having anointed’, ‘was anointing them’, ‘they may anoint’, ‘they were anointing’, ‘you anointed’, ‘anoint’, ‘anointed’.

Greek words (2) other than ἄλειψαί (V-MAM2..S) with a gloss related to ‘anoint’

MARK 14:8 μυρίσαι (murisai) V-NAA.... Lemma=murizō ‘she had she did she anticipated to anoint the body of me’ SR GNT Mark 14:8 word 8

MARK 16:1 ἀλείψωσιν (aleipsōsin) V-SAA3..P ‘spices in_order_that having come they may anoint him’ SR GNT Mark 16:1 word 24

Key: V=verb MAM2..S=imperative,aorist,middle,2nd person singular NAA....=infinitive,aorist,active SAA3..P=subjunctive,aorist,active,3rd person plural