The corpus record

χερνίπτομαι

cherniptomai

wash oneʼs hands with holy water

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Where it lives

Iphigenia in Tauris 1 · 1.21/10k
Iliad 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant — LSJ

wash oneʼs hands with holy water

wash oneʼs hands with holy water, esp. before sacrifice, χερνίψαντο δʼ ἔπειτα Il. 1.449; αὐτός γε χερνίπτου Ar. Pax 961; ἐχερνίψατο ἐκ τῆς ἱερᾶς χέρνιβος Lys. 6.52.

2 sprinkle with holy water, purify, dedicate thereby

sprinkle with holy water, purify or dedicate thereby, χαίτην E. l.c.

II sacrifice, dedicated

Act. χερνίπτω, sacrifice, only Lyc. 184:—aor. Pass. χερνιφθείς dedicated, AP 6.156 (Theodorid.).

In the wild

χερνίψομαι · chernipsomai Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris (DIORISIS sentence 330)
χερνίψαντο · chernipsanto Iliad 1.449

Where it came from

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