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Lexicon :: Strong's G3068 - louō

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λούω
Transliteration
louō (Key)
Pronunciation
loo'-o
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A root verb
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 4:295,538

Trench's Synonyms: xlv. πλύνω, νίπτω, λούω.

Strong’s Definitions

λούω loúō, loo'-o; a primary verb; to bathe (the whole person; whereas G3538 means to wet a part only, and G4150 to wash, cleanse garments exclusively):—wash.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 6x

The KJV translates Strong's G3068 in the following manner: wash (6x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 6x
The KJV translates Strong's G3068 in the following manner: wash (6x).
  1. to bathe, wash

    1. of a dead person

    2. washing to cleanse blood out of wounds

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
λούω loúō, loo'-o; a primary verb; to bathe (the whole person; whereas G3538 means to wet a part only, and G4150 to wash, cleanse garments exclusively):—wash.
STRONGS G3068:
λούω: 1 aorist ἔλουσά; perfect passive participle λελουμένος and (in Hebrews 10:23 T WH) λελουσμενος, a later Greek form (cf. Lobeck on Sophocles Aj., p. 324; Stephanus Thesaurus 5:397 c.; cf. Kühner, § 343, under the word; (Veitch, under the word, who cites Song of Solomon 5:12, Vat.)); 1 aorist middle participle λουσαμενος; from Homer down; the Sept. for רָחַץ; to bathe, wash: properly, τινα, a dead person, Acts 9:37; τινα ἀπό τῶν πληγῶν, by washing to cleanse from the blood of the wounds, Acts 16:33 (Winers Grammar, 372 (348), cf. § 30, 6 a.; Buttmann, 322 (277)); λελουμένος, absolutely, he that has bathed, John 13:10 (on the meaning of the passage see καθαρός, a. (and cf. Synonyms below)); λελουσμένοι τό σῶμα, with the dative of instrumentality, ὕδατι, Hebrews 10:22 (23); middle to wash oneself (cf. Winer's Grammar, § 38, 2 a.): 2 Peter 2:22; tropically, Christ is described as λουσας ἡμᾶς ἀπό τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν ἡμῶν, i. e. who by suffering the bloody death of a vicarious sacrifice cleansed us from the guilt of our sins, Revelation 1:5 R G (others, λύσας (which see 2 at the end). Compare: ἀπολούω.)
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Song of Songs
5:12
John
13:10
Acts
9:37; 16:33
Hebrews
10:22; 10:23
2 Peter
2:22
Revelation
1:5

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G3068 matches the Greek λούω (louō),
which occurs 44 times in 44 verses in the LXX Greek.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:5 -

Pharaoh’s daughter went down to bathe at the Nile while her servant girls walked along the riverbank. She saw the basket among the reeds, sent her slave girl, took it,

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:4 -

“Bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance to the tent of meeting and wash them with water.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:12 -

“Then bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance to the tent of meeting and wash them with water.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:6 -

Then Moses presented Aaron and his sons and washed them with water.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:40 -

“Anyone who eats some of its carcass is to wash his clothes and will be unclean until evening. Anyone who carries its carcass must wash his clothes and will be unclean until evening.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:8 -

“The one who is to be cleansed must wash his clothes, shave off all his hair, and bathe with water; he is clean. Afterward he may enter the camp, but he must remain outside his tent for seven days.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:9 -

“He is to shave off all his hair again on the seventh day: his head, his beard, his eyebrows, and the rest of his hair. He is to wash his clothes and bathe himself with water; he is clean.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:5 -

“Anyone who touches his bed is to wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will remain unclean until evening.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:6 -

“Whoever sits on furniture that the man with the discharge was sitting on is to wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will remain unclean until evening.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:7 -

“Whoever touches the body[fn] of the man with a discharge is to wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will remain unclean until evening.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:8 -

“If the man with the discharge spits on anyone who is clean, he is to wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will remain unclean until evening.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:10 -

“Whoever touches anything that was under him will be unclean until evening, and whoever carries such things is to wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will remain unclean until evening.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:11 -

“If the man with the discharge touches anyone without first rinsing his hands in water, the person who was touched is to wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will remain unclean until evening.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:13 -

“When the man with the discharge has been cured of it, he is to count seven days for his cleansing, wash his clothes, and bathe his body in fresh water; he will be clean.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:16 -

“When a man has an emission of semen, he is to bathe himself completely with water, and he will remain unclean until evening.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:18 -

“If a man sleeps with a woman and has an emission of semen, both of them are to bathe with water, and they will remain unclean until evening.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:21 -

“Everyone who touches her bed is to wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will remain unclean until evening.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:22 -

“Everyone who touches any furniture she was sitting on is to wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will remain unclean until evening.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:27 -

“Everyone who touches them will be unclean; he must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will remain unclean until evening.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:4 -

“He is to wear a holy linen tunic, and linen undergarments are to be on his body. He is to tie a linen sash around him and wrap his head with a linen turban. These are holy garments; he must bathe his body with water before he wears them.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:24 -

“He will bathe his body with water in a holy place and put on his clothes. Then he must go out and sacrifice his burnt offering and the people’s burnt offering; he will make atonement for himself and for the people.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:26 -

“The man who released the goat for an uninhabitable place is to wash his clothes and bathe his body with water; afterward he may reenter the camp.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:28 -

“The one who burns them is to wash his clothes and bathe himself with water; afterward he may reenter the camp.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 17:15 -

“Every person, whether the native or the resident alien, who eats an animal that died a natural death or was mauled by wild beasts is to wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will remain unclean until evening; then he will be clean.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 17:16 -

“But if he does not wash his clothes and bathe himself, he will bear his iniquity.”

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:6 -

“the man who touches any of these will remain unclean until evening and is not to eat from the holy offerings unless he has bathed his body with water.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:7 -

“Then the priest must wash his clothes and bathe his body in water; after that he may enter the camp, but he will remain ceremonially unclean until evening.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:8 -

“The one who burned the cow must also wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and he will remain unclean until evening.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:19 -

“The one who is clean is to sprinkle the unclean person on the third day and the seventh day. After he purifies the unclean person on the seventh day, the one being purified must wash his clothes and bathe in water, and he will be clean by evening.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:11 -

“When evening approaches, he is to wash with water, and when the sun sets he may come inside the camp.

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:3 -

“Wash, put on perfumed oil, and wear your best clothes. Go down to the threshing floor, but don’t let the man know you are there until he has finished eating and drinking.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:2 -

One evening David got up from his bed and strolled around on the roof of the palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing ​— ​a very beautiful woman.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:20 -

Then David got up from the ground. He washed, anointed himself, changed his clothes, went to the LORD’s house, and worshiped. Then he went home and requested something to eat. So they served him food, and he ate.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:19 -

“Tell him, ‘This is what the LORD says: Have you murdered and also taken possession? ’ Then tell him, ‘This is what the LORD says: In the place where the dogs licked up Naboth’s blood, the dogs will also lick up your blood! ’ ”

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:38 -

Then someone washed the chariot at the pool of Samaria. The dogs licked up his blood, and the prostitutes bathed in it, according to the word of the LORD that he had spoken.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:10 -

Then Elisha sent him a messenger, who said, “Go wash seven times in the Jordan and your skin will be restored and you will be clean.”

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:12 -

“Aren’t Abana and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Couldn’t I wash in them and be clean? ” So he turned and left in a rage.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:13 -

But his servants approached and said to him, “My father, if the prophet had told you to do some great thing, would you not have done it? How much more should you do it when he only tells you, ‘Wash and be clean’? ”

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 6:6 -

I am weary from my groaning;

with my tears I dampen my bed

and drench my couch every night.

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:12 -

His eyes are like doves

beside flowing streams,

washed in milk

and set like jewels.[fn]

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:16 -

“Wash yourselves. Cleanse yourselves.

Remove your evil deeds from my sight.

Stop doing evil.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:4 -

“As for your birth, your umbilical cord wasn’t cut on the day you were born, and you weren’t washed clean[fn] with water. You were not rubbed with salt or wrapped in cloths.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:9 -

“I washed you with water, rinsed off your blood, and anointed you with oil.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:40 -

“In addition, they sent for men who came from far away when a messenger was dispatched to them. And look how they came! You bathed, painted your eyes, and adorned yourself with jewelry for them.

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