Word

λούω

loúō · G3068 · Greek · 5 occurrences

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Meanings

to bathe, to wash

To wash the body

Examples
John 13:10 Jesus said to him, “He who has bathed needs only to wash his feet; otherwise he is completely clean. And you are clean—but not all of you.”
Acts 9:37 But it happened at that time that she became sick and died; and when they had washed her body, they laid it in an upstairs room.
Acts 16:33 And he took them that very hour of the night and washed their wounds, and immediately he was baptized, he and all his household.

How it’s used In 4 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

5 occurrences in 3 groups

Not stated (participle) 3
ὗςsow 1
Not stated: he, she or it 1

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 1

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

3 occurrences in 3 groups

εἰςto+ κύλισμαwallowing 1
ἐνin+ ὑπερῷονupstairs room 1
ἀπόfrom+ πληγήplague, wound, blow 1

What it doesIt is the subject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

ἔχωto have 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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In the other Testament 1 word

רָחַץ râchats · H7364 · to take a bath, to bathe, to wash: Hebrew רָחַץ (râchats, H7364) is the standard translation equivalent of Greek λούω (loúō, G3068) in LXX contexts, both denoting bathing or washing the whole body (as distinguished from partial washing or garment-specific cleansing).

Semantic domains 1 entry

To bathe, to wash47.12: λούω names the act of bathing the whole body, as distinct from washing a part of it. John 13:10 records Jesus telling Peter at the foot-washing, “He who has bathed needs only to wash his feet; otherwise he is completely clean,” the λελουμένος naming this prior full bathing.

Word family 3 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

λούωloúō · G3068ἀπολούω apoloúō · G628 · to purify, to cause to be pure · 2×λουτρόν loutrón · G3067 · washing, baptism · 2×

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon : 1 aorist ἔλουσά; perfect passive participle λελουμένος and (in Heb 10:23 T WH)…

: 1 aorist ἔλουσά; perfect passive participle λελουμένος and (in Heb 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)); ὁ λελουμένος, absolutely, he that has bathed, Jn 13:10 (on the meaning of the passage see καθαρός, a. (and cf. Synonyms below)); λελουσμένοι τό σῶμα, with the dative of instrumentality, ὕδατι, Heb 10:22 (23); middle to wash oneself (cf. Winer's Grammar, § 38, 2 a.): 2 Pet 2:22; tropically, Christ is described as ὁ 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, Rev 1:5 R G (others, λύσας (which see 2 at the end). Compare: ἀπολούω.)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Use of Liquids5 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0