Mark 7:1-4

7:1

Pharisees <5330> [The Pharisees.]

7:2

unclean <2839> [defiled. or, common.]

<3201> [they found.]

7:3

<4435> [oft. or, diligently. Gr. With the fist. Up to the elbow.]

Theophylact. [Pugme <\\See definition 4435\\>,] the fist; which Dr. Lightfoot illustrates by a tradition from the Talmudical tracts, that when they washed their hands, they washed the fist up to the joint of the arm, [ad perek.] The Jews laid great stress on these washings, or baptisms, [baptismos <\\See definition 909\\>,] considering eating with unwashen hands no ordinary crime, and feigning that an evil spirit, called Shibta, has a right to sit on the food of him who thus eats, and render it hurtful.

tradition <3862> [the tradition.]

7:4

<3362> [except.]

pots <3582> [pots.]

"Gr. Sextarius; about a pint and a half."

<2825> [tables. or, beds.]