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Koine Greek wordlink #75164

SR GNT Yhn 13:14 νίπτειν (niptein) ‘you_all are ought of one_another to_be washing the feet’ Strongs=35380 Lemma=niptō
Word role=verb mood=infinitive tense=present voice=active
Year=33 AD Refers to Word #74951

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Other uses (1) of identical word form νίπτειν (V-NPA····) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘νίπτειν’ (V-NPA····) is always and only glossed as ‘to_be washing’.

Yhn (Jhn) 13:5 ‘wash_basin and began to_be washing the feet of the’ SR GNT Yhn (Jhn) 13:5 word 13

OET-LV: 5 Thereafter he _is _putting water into the wash _basin, and began to _be _washing the feet of _the apprentices/followers, and to _be _wiping _off them with _the linen _towel with _which he _was having _been _girded. (JHN_13:5)

OET-RV: 5 Then he put water into the wash bowl and started washing the feet of his apprentices, wiping them dry with the linen towel that he was wearing wrapped around him. (JHN 13:5)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘niptō’ have 13 different glosses: ‘are washing’, ‘having washed’, ‘to wash’, ‘to_be washing’, ‘I may wash’, ‘I washed’, ‘he washed’, ‘she washed’, ‘they are washing’, ‘they may wash’, ‘you may wash’, ‘wash’, ‘washed’.

Greek words (7) other than νίπτειν (V-NPA····) with a gloss related to ‘washing’

YHN 13:6 νίπτεις (nipteis) V-IPA2··S ‘master you of me are washing the feet’ SR GNT Yhn 13:6 word 15

OET-LV: 6 Therefore he _is _coming to Simōn Petros. He _is _saying to _him: master, are_ you _washing the feet of _me? (JHN_13:6)

OET-RV: 6 After he’d washed a few, he got to Simon Peter who asked him, “Master, are you going to wash my feet?” (JHN 13:6)

MAT 15:2 νίπτονται (niptontai) V-IPM3··P ‘elders not for they are washing their hands whenever’ SR GNT Mat 15:2 word 13

OET-LV: 2 For/Because_ why _reason the apprentices/followers of _you are _breaking _from the tradition of _the elders? For/Because they _are_ not _washing their hands whenever they _may _be _eating bread. (MAT_15:2)

OET-RV: 2 “Why do your followers break the traditions handed down by our elders? They’re not practicing the washing hands ceremony before eating.” (MAT 15:2)

LUKE 5:2 ἔπλυνον (eplunon) V-IIA3··P Lemma=plunō ‘from them having gone_out were washing the nets’ SR GNT Luke 5:2 word 18

OET-LV: 2 and he _saw two boats having _stopped by the lake, but the fishermen from them having _gone _out, were _washing the nets. (LUK_5:2)

OET-RV: 2 he saw two boats at the edge of the water, but the fishermen had left the boats so they could wash their nets. (LUK 5:2)

EPH 5:26 λουτρῷ (loutrōi) N-DNS Lemma=loutron ‘he may sanctify having cleansed her by the washing of water by the message’ SR GNT Eph 5:26 word 6

OET-LV: 26 in _order _that he _may _sanctify her, having _cleansed her by _the washing of_ the _water by the_message, (EPH_5:26)

OET-RV: 26 so that he could separate the church from the world and wash it clean with the water of the good message (EPH 5:26)

COL 2:12 βαπτισμῷ (baptismōi) N-DMS Lemma=baptismos ‘having_been buried_with with him in washing in which also’ SR GNT Col 2:12 word 5

OET-LV: 12 having _been _buried _with with _him in the washing, in which also you _all _were _raised _up _with him, through the faith in _the working of_ the _god, which having _raised him from the_dead. (COL_2:12)

OET-RV: 12 You all were buried with him when you were immersed in water, and you came back to life with him when you came up from the water, through faith in God’s working which gave him life after death. (COL 2:12)

TIT 3:5 λουτροῦ (loutrou) N-GNS Lemma=loutron ‘he saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewal’ SR GNT Tit 3:5 word 22

OET-LV: 5 not by works which in righteousness, that we practiced, but according _to the mercy, of _him he _saved us, through the_washing of _regeneration and renewal of_the_ holy _spirit, (TIT_3:5)

OET-RV: 5 he saved us, not because of the ‘good deeds’ that we did, but out of his mercy. He regenerated us through washing and renewed us by his holy spirit (TIT 3:5)

REV 22:14 πλύνοντες (plunontes) V-PPA·NMP Lemma=plunō ‘blessed are the ones washing the robes of them’ SR GNT Rev 22:14 word 3

OET-LV: 14 Blessed are the ones washing the robes of _them, in _order _that it _will _be the right of _them to the tree of_ the _life, and by _the gates they _may _come _in into the city. (REV_22:14)

OET-RV: 14 “Blessed are those who are washing their robes so that they’ll have authority over the tree of life (MEANING???) and so that they’ll be able to enter the city through the gates. (REV 22:14)

Key: N=noun V=verb DMS=dative,masculine,singular DNS=dative,neuter,singular GNS=genitive,neuter,singular