Word Summary
aleiphō: anoint
Original Word: ἀλείφωTransliteration: aleiphō
Phonetic Spelling: (al-i'-fo)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: anoint
Meaning: anoint
Strong's Concordance
anoint. 
From a (as particle of union) and the base of liparos; to oil (with perfume) -- anoint. 
see GREEK a 
see GREEK liparos 
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 218: ἀλείφωἀλείφω: imperfect 
ἤλειφον; 1 aorist 
ἤλειψα; 1 aorist middle imperative 
ἄλειψαί; (allied with 
λίπος, grease; cf. 
Curtius, § 340; 
Vanicek, p. 811; Peile, p. 407; from 
Homer down); 
to anoint: 
τινα or 
τί, 
Mark 16:1; 
John 12:3; 
τινα or 
τί τίνι (
Winer's Grammar, 227 (213)), as 
ἐλαίῳ, 
Luke 7:46{a}; 
Mark 6:13; 
James 5:14; 
μύρῳ, 
John 11:2; 
Luke 7:38, 46{b}; middle, 
Matthew 6:17 (literally, 'anoint for thyself thy head,'
unge tibi caput tuum; cf. 
Winers Grammar, 257 (242); 
Buttmann, 192 (166f)). Cf. 
Winers RWB under the word Salbe; (
B. D. or McClintock and Strong's Cyclopaedia, under the word 
, etc. [SYNONYMS: "ἀλείφειν is the mundane and profane, χρίειν the sacred and religious, word." Trench, § 38: Compare: ἐξαλείφω].