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What Does “Wipe” Mean in the Bible?

To dry.

Where it appears in the Bible

John 12:3

What the Bible says

John 12:3

Mary therefore took a pound of ointment of right spikenard, of great price, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair; and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.

Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.

Source: Dictionary.com, “wipe”

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