Strong’s G4435 · Greek
πυγμή
pygmḗ · poog-may'
Origin from a primary πύξ (the fist as a weapon);
Meaning the clenched hand, i.e. (only in dative case as adverb) with the fist (hard scrubbing)
In the King James Version oft.
In 1 verse of the King James Version
- Mark 7:3For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders.
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.