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Koine Greek wordlink #3153

SR GNT Mat 6:17 ἄλειψαι (aleipsai) ‘you but fasting anoint of you the head’ Strongs=2180 Lemma=aleifō
Word role=verb mood=imperative tense=aorist voice=middle person=2nd number=singular
Year=31 AD TimeSeries=Sermon_on_the_Mount

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Only use of identical word form ἄλειψαι (V-MAM2··S) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ἄλειψαι’ (V-MAM2··S) is always and only glossed as ‘anoint’.

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘aleifō’ have 7 different glosses: ‘having anointed’, ‘was anointing them’, ‘they may anoint’, ‘they were anointing’, ‘you anointed’, ‘anoint’, ‘anointed’.

Greek words (2) other than ἄλειψαι (V-MAM2··S) with a gloss related to ‘anoint’

MARK 14:8 μυρίσαι (murisai) V-NAA···· Lemma=murizō ‘she had she did she anticipated to anoint the body of me’ SR GNT Mark 14:8 word 8

OET-LV: 8 What she _had she _did, she _anticipated to _anoint the body of _me for my burial. (MRK_14:8)

OET-RV: 8 She has performed the traditional anointing of my body in advance of my burial. (MRK 14:8)

MARK 16:1 ἀλείψωσιν (aleipsōsin) V-SAA3··P ‘spices in_order_that having come they may anoint him’ SR GNT Mark 16:1 word 24

OET-LV: 16 And the day _of _rest having _elapsed, the Maria/(Miryām) the from _Magdala and Maria the mother of_ the _Yakōbos/(Yaˊₐqoⱱ), and Salōmaʸ, bought spices in _order _that having _come, they _may _anoint him. (MRK_16:1)

OET-RV: 16 After the Rest Day was over, Maria from Magdala and Maria the mother of Yacob and Salome, went and bought some traditional burial spices that evening to take to the burial chamber and place with the body. (MRK 16:1)

Key: V=verb