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ῥαντίζω

Strong’s: G4472

Associated OET lemmas: ῥαντίζω

Other spellings: ῥαντίζομαι

Notes: In view of the religious significance of such sprinkling, this meaning of ῥαντίζω, as well as other meanings in the set, could be classified under Domain 53 Religious Activities (see 53.32: ῥαντίζω).

Form 1

Part of speech: verb

Inflections: ῥαντίζω; pf.pass.ptc.; ἐρραντισμένος; ῥεραντισμένος

Related lemmas: ῥαντισμός

Sense 1: to sprinkle, sprinkling

Semantic entry: 47.16

Semantic domains: Activities Involving Liquids or Masses

Subdomains: Application and Removal of Liquids or Masses

Definition: to sprinkle a liquid upon something{N:001}

Notes: In a number of languages it may be important to restructure somewhat this elliptical phrase so as to translate ‘to obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled by his blood’ or ‘... be purified by his blood.’

Show passage in OET: HEB 9:19

OET-RV HEB 9:19

19 Hence after telling all the people all the commands according to the law, Mosheh (Moses) then took the blood of calves and goats, along with water and scarlet wool, and hyssop branches, and sprinkled both the scroll and all the people

OET-LV HEB 9:19

19 For/Because having _been _spoken every command according _to the law by Mōsaʸs/(Mosheh) to _all the people, having _taken the blood of_ the _calves and of_ the _goats, with water, and wool scarlet, and hyssop, itself both the scroll and all the people, he _sprinkled

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Sense 2: to cleanse, to purify

Semantic entry: 53.32

Semantic domains: Religious Activities

Subdomains: Purify, Cleanse

Definition: to cleanse and purify by means of sprinkling

Show passage in OET: HEB 9:13

OET-RV HEB 9:13

13 Because if the blood of goats and bulls, and the sprinkling of defiled people with the ashes of a young cow could make them holy by physical purification,

OET-LV HEB 9:13

13 For/Because if the blood of _goats, and bulls, and the_ashes of_a_heifer, sprinkling the ones having _been _defiled, is _sanctifying them for the of _the flesh purification,

Show passage in OET: HEB 9:19

OET-RV HEB 9:19

19 Hence after telling all the people all the commands according to the law, Mosheh (Moses) then took the blood of calves and goats, along with water and scarlet wool, and hyssop branches, and sprinkled both the scroll and all the people

OET-LV HEB 9:19

19 For/Because having _been _spoken every command according _to the law by Mōsaʸs/(Mosheh) to _all the people, having _taken the blood of_ the _calves and of_ the _goats, with water, and wool scarlet, and hyssop, itself both the scroll and all the people, he _sprinkled

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All 4 recorded passages for this sense

HEB: OET HEB 9:13 · OET HEB 9:19 · OET HEB 9:21 · OET HEB 10:22

Sense 3: to have one’s heart made pure, to be purified in one’s heart, to be pure

Semantic entry: 88.31

Semantic domains: Moral and Ethical Qualities and Related Behavior

Subdomains: Holy, Pure

Definition: (an idiom, literally: to be sprinkled in the heart) to be purified from moral failure

Forms: ῥαντίζομαι

Collocations: ῥαντίζομαι τὴν καρδίαν

Show passage in OET: HEB 10:22

OET-RV HEB 10:22

22 we can approach God with sincere hearts in full assurance due to our faith, having our hearts sprinkled to clean us from our guilty consciences and with our bodies having been washed in clean water.

OET-LV HEB 10:22

22 we _may _be _approaching with a_true heart in full _assurance of _faith, having _been _sprinkled our hearts from a_conscience evil, and having _been _washed our body in _water pure.

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