Strong’s G218 · Greek
ἀλείφω
aleíphō · al-i'-fo
Origin from Α (G1) (as particle of union) and the base of λιπαρός (G3045);
Meaning to oil (with perfume)
In the King James Version anoint.
In 8 verses of the King James Version
- Matthew 6:17But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face;
- Mark 6:13And they cast out many devils, and anointed with oil many that were sick, and healed them.
- Mark 16:1And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him.
- Luke 7:38And stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.
- Luke 7:46My head with oil thou didst not anoint: but this woman hath anointed my feet with ointment.
- John 11:2(It was that Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.)
- John 12:3Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.
- James 5:14Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.