ἐπιχρίω: 1 aorist ἐπεχρισα; to spread on, anoint: τί ἐπί τί, anything upon anything, Joh_9:6 (WH text Tr marginal reading ἐπέθηκεν); τί, to anoint anything (namely, with anything), ibid. 11. (Homer, Odyssey 21, 179; Lucian, hist. scrib. 62.)

ἐπιχρίω epichriō 2x to smear upon, to anoint, Joh_9:6 ; Joh_9:11

** ἐπι -χρίω , [in Sm .: Eze_13:10 ; Eze_22:28 * ;] to spread on, anoint: c . acc , Joh_9:11 ; id . seq . hi -I, c . acc , Joh_9:6 ( cf. MM , Exp., xiv).†

ἐπιχρίω [page 251] A very striking parallel to the healing of the blind man in Joh_9:6 is afforded by an inscription probably from the temple of Asclepios at Rome after A.D. 138 : Syll 807 .15 ff. Οὐαλερίῳ Ἄπρῳ στρατιώτῃ τυφλῷ ἐχρημάτισεν ὁ θεὸς ἐλθεῖν καὶ λαβεῖν αἷμα ἐξ ἀλεκτρυῶνος λευκοῦ μετὰ μέλιτος καὶ κολλυρίου συντρῖψαι καὶ ἐπὶ τρεῖς ἡμέρας ἐπιχρεῖσαι ἐπὶ τοὺς ὀφθαλμούς· καὶ ἀνέβλεψεν καὶ ἐλήλυθεν καὶ ηὐχαρίστησεν δημοσίᾳ τῷ θεῷ , Valerius Aper, a blind soldier, was warned of the god to come and take the blood of a white cock along with honey, and to mix together an eye-salve, and for three days to anoint the eyes with it. And he received his sight, and came, and gave thanks publicly to the god. (For the tenses here note an exact parallel in Jas_1:24 , and cf. Proleg. p. 144 n .1 .) See also P Leid X vii. 36 (iii/iv A.D.) ὅμοιον γὰρ εἶδος ἔχει τὸ ἐπιχρισθὲν ἢ γραφέν , which the editor explains aes totum illinitum, aut literae, figuraeve in eo scalptae eamdem auri speciem offerunt.

ἐπιχρίω fut. ίσω "to anoint, besmear", Od. :—Mid. "to anoint oneself", id=Od. "to plaster over", τι ἐπί τι NTest. ; τινί with a thing, Luc.

ἐπι-χρίω [in Sm.: Eze.13:10 22:28 * ;] to spread on, anoint: with accusative, Jhn.9:11; id. before hi-I, with accusative, Jhn.9:6 (cf. MM, Exp., xiv).† (AS)