Nipto denotes washing, especially of feet, hands, face, or eyes in the actions described across the cited verses.

The attested use consistently concerns washing a specified part of the body: feet in acts of service, hands in eating-related custom, a face while fasting, and eyes in the account of receiving sight. The same basic action appears in commands, questions, completed acts, and an infinitive describing the action begun.

1. Washing a body part · dominant

   In John 13:5, the present active infinitive occurs as Jesus begins the action involving the disciples' feet; the APB renders the clause "began to wash the disciples' feet." In John 9:7 and John 9:15, aorist middle forms occur after clay is put on the man's eyes, and the APB renders his response as washing and then seeing. Mark 7:3 and Matthew 6:17 place the action respectively with hands before eating and with the face during fasting.

   John 13:5John 13:14John 9:7John 9:15Mark 7:3Matthew 6:17

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the supplied verses, the APB repeatedly uses forms of "wash" for actions involving feet, eyes, hands, and face. These renderings confirm the verse-level action rather than establish separate lexical meanings.