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UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

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ἀπομάσσω

Strong’s: G631

Associated OET lemmas: ἀπομάσσω

Other spellings: ἀπομάσσομαι

Form 1

Part of speech: verb

Related lemmas: μάσσω

Sense 1: to wipe off, to wipe away

Semantic entry: 16.9

Semantic domains: Non-Linear Movement

Definition: to wipe off, as a means of getting rid of some adhering substance

Notes: Since the action of wiping off the dust from one’s feet was a symbolic act of denunciation, it may be necessary in some languages to translate this expression in OET LUK 10:11 (RV-only LUK 10:11 · LV-only LUK 10:11) as ‘we wipe off as a way of denouncing you’ or ‘we wipe off as a way of showing how bad you are.’

Forms: ἀπομάσσομαι

LUK 10:11: OET LUK 10:11 (RV-only LUK 10:11 · LV-only LUK 10:11)

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OET-RV LUK 10:11

11 ‘We’re wiping off even the dust from your place that stuck to our footwear, however you all need to know anyway that God’s kingdom is near.’

OET-LV LUK 10:11

11 We_are_wiping_off to_you_all even the dust which having_been_joined_together to the feet to_us out_of the city of_you_all, however be_knowing this that the kingdom of_ the _god has_neared.