Pygme means “oft” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H4435 — milkah (“Milcah”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G4435 πυγμή (pugme) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. pugme (poog-may') n. 1. the clenched hand 2. (only in dative case as adverb) with the fist (hard scrubbing) It has 3 linked Bible usages across 3 books. Visible English usage signals include hands. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
pugme (poog-may') n. 1. the clenched hand 2. (only in dative case as adverb) with the fist (hard scrubbing) [from a primary pux (the fist as a weapon)] KJV: oft
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G4435. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
fist
Usage: πυγμή, -ῆς, ἡ [in LXX: Exo.21:18, Isa.58:4 (אֶגְרֹף) * ;] the fist: πυγμῇ νίψασθαι τ. χῖρας (Τ, 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; see Swete, in l): Mrk.7:3.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render pugme, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and New Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G4435 (πυγμή) appears 2 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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1 indexed usage in New Testament.
For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders.
2 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And if two men revile each other and smite the one the other with a stone or his fist, and he die not, but be laid upon his bed;
If ye fast for quarrels and strifes, and smite the lowly with your fists, wherefore do ye fast to me as ye do this day, so that your voice may be heard in crying?
First 3 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G4435.
And if two men revile each other and smite the one the other with a stone or his fist, and he die not, but be laid upon his bed;
If ye fast for quarrels and strifes, and smite the lowly with your fists, wherefore do ye fast to me as ye do this day, so that your voice may be heard in crying?
For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G4435, grouped by book.
Pygme (Strong's G4435) is a Greek word most simply glossed "oft". pugme (poog-may') n. 1. the clenched hand 2. (only in dative case as adverb) with the fist (hard scrubbing)
This page currently indexes 3 linked usages for Strong's G4435 across 3 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G4435 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as hands. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 2 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament for Strong's G4435, with linked reader references where each row is available.