Washing Hands
wosh, wosh'-ing: The two usual Hebrew words for "wash" are
rachats, and kabhac, the former being normally used of
persons or of sacrificial animals (Gen 18:4, etc., often
translated "bathe"; Lev 15:5, etc.), and the latter of
things (Gen 49:11, etc.), the exceptions to this distinction
being few (for rachats, 1 Ki 22:38 margin; for kabhac, Ps ...
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Of hands, a token of innocence
De 21:6; Ps 26:6; 73:13; Mt 27:24
-See ABLUTION
-See PURIFICATION
-FIGURATIVE
Of regeneration
Ps 51:7; Pr 30:12; Isa 1:16; 4:4; Zec 13:1; 1Co 6:11;
Eph
5:26; Tit 3:5...
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As knives and forks were not used in the East, in Scripture
times, in eating, it was necessary that the hand, which was
thrust into the common dish, should be scrupulously clean; and
again, as sandals were ineffectual against the dust and heat
of the climate, washing the feet on entering a house was an
act both of respect to the company and of...
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(Mark 7:1-9). The Jews, like other Orientals, used their
fingers
when taking food, and therefore washed their hands
before doing
so, for the sake of cleanliness. Here the reference
is to the
ablutions prescribed by tradition, according to
which "the
disciples ought to have gone down to the side of the
lake,
washed their hands thoroughly, ...
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The high priest's whole body was washed at his consecration
(Exodus 29:4; Leviticus 16:4); also on the day of atonement.
The priests' hands and feet alone were washed in the daily
tabernacle ministrations (Exodus 30:18-20). So Christians
are once for all wholly "bathed" (leloumenoi) in
regeneration which is their consecration; and daily wash
...
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And all the elders of that city, [that are] next unto the
slain [man], shall wash their hands over the heifer that is
beheaded in the valley:...
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I will wash mine hands in innocency: so will I compass thine
altar, O LORD:...
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Verily I have cleansed my heart [in] vain, and washed my hands
in innocency....
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When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but [that]
rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed [his]
hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood
of this just person: see ye [to it]....
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WASHING OF HANDS BEFORE EATING
Orientals are careful to wash their hands before a meal, but they would think that the Occidental way of washing in the water already made dirty by the hands, to be very untidy and disgraceful. The servant or whoever takes his place, pours water on the hands to be washed as they are held over a basin. Often the basi...
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