Definition

to wash off (reflexively, one's own hands symbolically)

Etymology

from G575 (ἀπό) and G3538 (νίπτω);

Word family

• ἀπό apó
• νίπτω níptō

How the KJV renders it

• wash

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.