Lexical Summary
plunó: To wash
Original Word: πλύνω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: plunó
Pronunciation: ploo'-no
Phonetic Spelling: (ploo'-no)
KJV: wash
NASB: wash, washed, washing
Word Origin: [a prolonged form of an obsolete pluo "to flow"]
1. to "plunge", i.e. launder clothing
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
wash.
A prolonged form of an obsolete pluo (to "flow"); to "plunge", i.e. Launder clothing -- wash. Compare louo, nipto.
see GREEK louo
see GREEK nipto
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origina prim. verb
Definitionto wash
NASB Translationwash (1), washed (1), washing (1).
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4150: πλύνωπλύνω; imperfect
ἔπλυνον; 1 aorist
ἐπλυνα; ((cf.
πλέω)); from
Homer down; the
Sept. for
כִּבֵּס and
רָחַץ;
to wash:
τά δίκτυα,
Luke 5:2 L T Tr WH ((
T WH marginal reading
πλῦναν; see
ἀποπλύνω)); used from
Homer down especially in reference to clothing (
Genesis 49:11;
Exodus 19:10, 14;
Leviticus 13:6, 34, etc.); hence, figuratively
πλύνειν τάς στολάς αὐτῶν ἐν τῷ αἵματι τοῦ ἀρνίου is used of those who by faith so appropriate the results of Christ's expiation as to be regarded by God as pure and sinless,
Revelation 7:14, and
L T Tr WH in