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Notes: Scholarly opinion is divided as to the derivation of πιστικός, but πιστικός was associated with πίστις by some later writers, and it was then interpreted to mean genuine, unadulterated.

Form 1

Part of speech: adjc.

Inflections: πιστικός; -ή, -όν

Related lemmas: πιστεύω

Sense 1: pure

Semantic entry: 79.97

Semantic domains: Features of Objects

Subdomains: Pure, Unadulterated, Undiluted

Definition: pertaining to being pure, with the possible implication of a quality which can be trusted{N:001}

MRK 14:3: RV MRK 14:3 · LV MRK 14:3 · Read together MRK 14:3

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OET-RV MRK 14:3

3 Meanwhile, Yeshua (Jesus; Grk. Yesus) was in Beyt-Ania (Bethany) at the home of Shim’on (Simon) who had previously had leprosy. Yeshua was sitting there when a woman came in with a hand-crafted container of very expensive fragrant lotion. Breaking open the sealed flask, she poured the fragrant oil over Yeshua’s head.

OET-LV MRK 14:3

3 And him being in Baʸthania, in the house of _Simōn the leprous, reclining of _him, a_woman came having an_alabaster _flask of _ointment, of_ genuine expensive _nard, having _broken the alabaster _flask, she _poured _down it on _the head of _him.

JHN 12:3: RV JHN 12:3 · LV JHN 12:3 · Read together JHN 12:3

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OET-RV JHN 12:3

3 Then Miryam (Grk. Maria /Mariam) took about 300g of very expensive nard oil and smeared it on Yeshua’s feet, and then wiped off his feet with her own hair, and the house was filled with the fragrance of the oil.

OET-LV JHN 12:3

3 Therefore the Maria/(Miryām) having _taken a_litra_weight of _ointment of_ precious genuine _nard, anointed the feet of_ the _Yaʸsous, and wiped _off the feet of _him with _the hairs of _her, and the house was _filled with the aroma of _the ointment.

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

πιστικός

Form 1

Sense 1: pure