Mar 7:3 | TSK | STEP | oft. or, diligently. Gr. With the fist. Up to the elbow.Theophylact. [Pugme ,] 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 ,] 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. the tradition.

Mark 7:3

oft. or, diligently. Gr. With the fist. Up to the elbow.Theophylact. [Pugme ,] 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 ,] 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.

the tradition.

7-10,13; Mt 15:2-6; Ga 1:14; Col 2:8,21-23; 1Pe 1:18