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Strong's #3462 - μυρίζω
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μῠρίζω,
Ι rub with ointment or unguent, anoint, Ar. Lys. 938, Alc. Com. 23; μύροισιν μ. Ar. Pl. 529: — Med., anoint oneself, Antiph. 148.5, Men. 518.15; ἐξ ἀλαβάστου Alex. 62.1: — Pass., μεμυρις μένοι τὸ σῶμα Hdt. 1.195, cf. Antiph. 190.2, Arist. Mir. 832a4; μυρίζεσθαι τὴν κεφαλήν Plu. 2.142a.
II in Pass. also, μ. τινί to be fragrant with.., Hld. 10.26. (Cf. σμυρίζω.)
* μυρίζω
(< μύρον ),
Ionic and poët. (comic),
to anoint: Mark 14:8.†
SYN.: v.s. ἀλείφω G218, and cf. μύρον .
Copyright © 1922 by G. Abbott-Smith, D.D., D.C.L.. T & T Clarke, London.
On the formation of this NT ἅπ. εἰρ. (Mark 12:34), which is found from Aristotle downwards, as equivalent to νουνεχόντως (Lob. Phryn. p. 599), see Giles Manual of Comparative Philology.2, p. 240, where reference is made to the adj. νουνεχής and the subst. νουνέχεια in the later Greek.
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