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Part of speech: verb
Semantic entry: 53.31
Semantic domains: Religious Activities
Subdomains: Purify, Cleanse
Definition: to wash (in some contexts, possibly by dipping into water), with a view to making objects ritually acceptable
Notes: See RV MRK 7:4 · LV MRK 7:4 · Read together MRK 7:4 apparatus.|There is some doubt as to the precise extent to which βαπτίζω[a], καταβαπτίζω, and βαπτισμός[a] in RV MRK 7:4 · LV MRK 7:4 · Read together MRK 7:4 involve ritual cleansing, but the context would seem to imply this, particularly in view of the relationship of such washing to the rules followed by Jews in general and Pharisees in particular.