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Lexicon :: Strong's G218 - aleiphō

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ἀλείφω
Transliteration
aleiphō (Key)
Pronunciation
al-i'-fo
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
From ἄλφα (G1) (as particle of union) and the base of λιπαρός (G3045)
Dictionary Aids

Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 1:229,37

Trench's Synonyms: xxxviii. ἔλαιον, μύρον (χρίω, ἀλείφω).

Strong’s Definitions

ἀλείφω aleíphō, al-i'-fo; from G1 (as particle of union) and the base of G3045; to oil (with perfume):—anoint.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 9x

The KJV translates Strong's G218 in the following manner: anoint (9x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 9x
The KJV translates Strong's G218 in the following manner: anoint (9x).

  1. to anoint

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ἀλείφω aleíphō, al-i'-fo; from G1 (as particle of union) and the base of G3045; to oil (with perfume):—anoint.
STRONGS G218:
ἀλείφω: imperfect ἤλειφον; 1 aorist ἤλειψα; 1 aorist middle imperative ἄλειψαι; [allied with λίπος, grease; cf. Curtius, § 340; Vanicek, p. 811; Peile, p. 407; from Homer down]; to anoint: τινά or τί, Mark 16:1; John 12:3; τινά or τί τινι [Winer's Grammar, 227 (213)], as ἐλαίῳ, Luke 7:46a; Mark 6:13; James 5:14; μύρῳ, John 11:2; Luke 7:38, 46b; middle, Matthew 6:17 (literally, 'anoint for thyself thy head,' unge tibi caput tuum; cf. Winers Grammar, 257 (242); Buttmann, 192 (166f)). Cf. Winers RWB under the word Salbe; [B. D. or McClintock and Strong's Cyclopaedia, under the word Anoint, etc. Synonyms: "ἀλείφειν is the mundane and profane, χρίειν the sacred and religious, word." Trench, § 38. Compare: ἐξαλείφω].
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Matthew
6:17
Mark
6:13; 16:1
Luke
7:38; 7:46; 7:46
John
11:2; 12:3
James
5:14

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G218 matches the Greek ἀλείφω (aleiphō),
which occurs 19 times in 17 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:13 - I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar and where you made a vow to me. Now leave this land at once and go back to your native land.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:15

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:15 - Anoint them just as you anointed their father, so they may serve me as priests. Their anointing will be to a priesthood that will continue throughout their generations.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:3 - Those were the names of Aaron’s sons, the anointed priests, who were ordained to serve as priests.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:3

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:3 - Wash, put on perfume, and get dressed in your best clothes. Then go down to the threshing floor, but don’t let him know you are there until he has finished eating and drinking.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:20 - Then David got up from the ground. After he had washed, put on lotions and changed his clothes, he went into the house of the LORD and worshiped. Then he went to his own house, and at his request they served him food, and he ate.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:2 - So Joab sent someone to Tekoa and had a wise woman brought from there. He said to her, “Pretend you are in mourning. Dress in mourning clothes, and don’t use any cosmetic lotions. Act like a woman who has spent many days grieving for the dead.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:2 - Elisha replied to her, “How can I help you? Tell me, what do you have in your house?” “Your servant has nothing there at all,” she said, “except a small jar of olive oil.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:15 - The men designated by name took the prisoners, and from the plunder they clothed all who were naked. They provided them with clothes and sandals, food and drink, and healing balm. All those who were weak they put on donkeys. So they took them back to their fellow Israelites at Jericho, the City of Palms, and returned to Samaria.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:12 - Before a young woman’s turn came to go in to King Xerxes, she had to complete twelve months of beauty treatments prescribed for the women, six months with oil of myrrh and six with perfumes and cosmetics.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:10 - “ ‘Because they lead my people astray, saying, “Peace,” when there is no peace, and because, when a flimsy wall is built, they cover it with whitewash,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:11 - therefore tell those who cover it with whitewash that it is going to fall. Rain will come in torrents, and I will send hailstones hurtling down, and violent winds will burst forth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:12 - When the wall collapses, will people not ask you, “Where is the whitewash you covered it with?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:14 - I will tear down the wall you have covered with whitewash and will level it to the ground so that its foundation will be laid bare. When it[fn] falls, you will be destroyed in it; and you will know that I am the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:15 - So I will pour out my wrath against the wall and against those who covered it with whitewash. I will say to you, “The wall is gone and so are those who whitewashed it,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:28

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:28 - Her prophets whitewash these deeds for them by false visions and lying divinations. They say, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says’—when the LORD has not spoken.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 10:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 10:3 - I ate no choice food; no meat or wine touched my lips; and I used no lotions at all until the three weeks were over.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 6:15

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 6:15 - You will plant but not harvest; you will press olives but not use the oil, you will crush grapes but not drink the wine.
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