To smear over
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G2025 means to smear on or apply, and John uses it for Jesus applying mud to the blind man's eyes. The action is concrete and unusual: Jesus spits on the ground, makes mud, applies it, and sends the man to wash.
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G2025 means to smear on or apply, and John uses it for Jesus applying mud to the blind man's eyes. The action is concrete and unusual: Jesus spits on the ground, makes mud, applies it, and sends the man to wash.
The BSB source-word alignment has 2 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include anointed (1), applied (1).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at John 9:6. Its strongest book concentrations include John (2).
G2025 means to smear on or apply, and John uses it for Jesus applying mud to the blind man's eyes. The action is concrete and unusual: Jesus spits on the ground, makes mud, applies it, and sends the man to wash. The healed man later recounts the same action in testimony. The word helps teachers hold together sign, obedience, and witness without making the mud a technique.
Jesus is the healer; the applied mud serves the sign He chooses. Do not turn this into a formula for healing or a claim about material power. John uses the action to move from blindness to sight, from questioning to testimony, and from sign to revelation.
G2025 marks Jesus' application of mud in John 9 and the healed man's later testimony about that action. It supports the healing sign without turning the mud into a technique.
When Jesus had said this, He spit on the ground, made some mud, and applied it to the man’s eyes.
Jesus makes mud and applies it to the blind man's eyes. The word marks the concrete action Jesus chooses for the sign.
He answered, “The man they call Jesus made some mud and anointed my eyes, and He told me to go to Siloam and wash. So I went and washed and received my sight.”
The healed man recounts that Jesus anointed his eyes and sent him to wash. The word becomes part of his simple testimony.
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Greek word. to smear over
Textus Receptus witness, full corpus Greek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
2 Greek text appearances shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
I spread on, anoint
Read verseI spread on, anoint
Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
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How this verb appears across 2 occurrences in the NT discourse index (MACULA Greek SBLGNT).
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ἐπιχρίω is built from these roots:
John 9 uses G2025 for the mud Jesus applies to the blind man's eyes. The detail is memorable because the sign is embodied and public. Jesus acts, commands the man to wash, and the man returns seeing. Later, when questioned, the man recounts the action plainly: Jesus made mud, anointed his eyes, and sent him to wash. The word helps teachers honor the concrete action without turning it into a formula.
The power belongs to Jesus, not to mud as a technique. The passage moves from blindness to sight and from interrogation to witness.
John.9.6
To smear on or anoint is a reviewed display gloss for G2025. In this John-focused companion, the local discourse foregrounding data shows 2 John use(s), with tense patterns summarized as Aorist 2. Use these grammar signals as support for reading the passage, not as a replacement for context.
The broader Scripture connection should remain modest: healing sign, obedience, and testimony is visible in the cited passages, while the full theological claim must come from each passage's context rather than from the word alone.
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