pugmas

Strong’sG4435

the fist

stem pugm-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur

What it means

What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.

πυγμή, -ῆς, ἡ,

[in LXX: Ex 21:18, Is 58:4 (אֶגְרוֹף)*;]

the fist: πυγμῇ νίψασθαι τ. χεῖρας (T, πυκνά; Vg., Goth., Copt., crebro), to wash the hands with the fist (diligently, R, txt.; up to the elbow, R, mg.; the exact meaning is doubtful; v. Swete, in l.): Mk 7:3.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G4435 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidpoog-may'

the clenched hand, i.e. (only in dative case as adverb) with the fist (hard scrubbing)

Fromfrom a primary πύξ (the fist as a weapon);

King Jamesoft.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

πυγμ-ή, ἡ,
(πύξ) fist, LXX+5th c.BC+
2 boxing, as an athletic contest, πυγμῇ νικήσαντα Refs 8th c.BC+; πυγμὴν or τὴν π. ἀσκεῖν, Refs 5th c.BC+; frequently in Inscrr., e.g. πυγμὴν Ζωΐλος (i.e. ἐνίκησε) Refs
2.b generally, fight, π. μονομάχων καὶ θηρίων Edict.Caes. cited in Refs 1st c.AD+; εἰς π. καθίστασθαι, τρέπεσθαι, of partridges, Refs
3 in NT is interpretation diligently (variant{πυκνά}, often).
II a measure of length, the distance from the elbow to the knuckles,= Refs 4th c.BC+

H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.

Translated as

Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.

with a fist1×

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.

Biblang forms

Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.

Job in the sentence case	one singular	more than one plural
subject nominative	pugmas	pugmais
object accusative	pugman	pugmain
direct address vocative	pugmar	pugmair
of, belonging to genitive	pugmau	pugmaiu
to, for dative	pugma1×πυγμῇ	pugmai

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them

pugmstem+agender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

pugma is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.

same in every form varies — every value shown

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

pugma“with a fist”to, fordative singular1×

Mark 7:3“with a fist”… kai pantois tois Ioudaiois ean mē pugma nipteleia tain cheirain ouk esthialō, kratarōntois …… the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat until they wash their hands ceremonially.