Word Summary
apomassō: to wipe off
Original Word: ἀπομάσσωTransliteration: apomassō
Phonetic Spelling: (ap-om-as'-som-ahee)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to wipe off
Meaning: to wipe off
Strong's Concordance
wipe off.
Middle voice from apo and masso (to squeeze, knead, smear); to scrape away -- wipe off.
see GREEK apo
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 631: ἀπομάσσωἀπομάσσω: (
μάσσω to touch with the hands, handle, work with the hands, knead),
to wipe off; middle
ἀπομάσσομαι to wipe oneself off, to wipe off for oneself:
τόν κονιορτόν ὑμῖν,
Luke 10:11. (In Greek writings from
Aristophanes down.)