Quick Definition
I wipe, wipe off thoroughly
Strong's Definition
to knead out, i.e. (by analogy) to wipe dry
Derivation: from G1537 (ἐκ) and the base of G3145 (μασσάομαι);
KJV Usage: wipe
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἐκμάσσω; imperfect ἐξεμασσον; 1 aorist ἐξεμαξα; to wipe off, to wipe away: with the accusative of object and dative of instrument, Luk_7:38; Luk_7:44; Joh_11:2; Joh_12:3; Joh_13:5. (Sophocles, Euripides, Hippocrates, Aristotle, others, Sir_12:11; Bar_6:1-73 (ep. Jer.) 12, 23 (13, 24).)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἐκμάσσω ekmassō 5x
to wipe off; to wipe dry, Luk_7:38 ; Luk_7:44 ; Joh_11:2 ; Joh_12:3 ; Joh_13:5
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
** ἐκ -μάσσω ,
[in LXX : Sir_12:11 , Ep . Jer_13:1-27 ; Jer_24:1-10 * ;]
to wipe off: c . acc , Luk_7:38 ; Luk_7:44 , Joh_11:2 ; Joh_12:3 ; Joh_13:5 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἐκμάσσω [page 196]
Kaibel Epigr. 1003 .3 f. :
ἔθραυσε Καμβίσης με τόνδε τὸν λίθον
βασιλέος ἑῴου εἰκόνα ἐκμεμαγμένον .
We may add a literary reference from Herodas vi. 9 νῦν αὐτὸν ἐκμάσσεις τε καὶ ποεῖς λαμπρόν , | ὅτ᾽ ἐστὶ χρ [είη ], λῃστρί , where Nairn renders wipe dry.
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
ἐκμάσσω attic -ττω fut. ξω "to wipe off, wipe away" Soph. , Eur. :—Mid. "to wipe away one's tears", Anth. of an artist, "to mould or model" in wax or plaster, Lat.exprimere, Plat. :—Mid., τοκέων ἐκμάσσεται ἴχνη he "impresses anew" the footsteps of his fathers, i. e. walks in their steps, Theocr.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
ἐκ-μάσσω
[in LXX: Sir.12:11, Ep. Jer.13:1-27 24:1-10 * ;]
to wipe off: with accusative, Luk.7:38, 44, Jhn.11:2 12:3 13:5.†
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