Probably akin to πετάννυμι petannumi (to spread; and thus apparently allied to G4072 through the idea of {expansion} and to G4429 through that of flattening; compare G3961); to {fold} that {is} furl a scroll: - close.
Mar 8:23And he took the blind man by the hand, and led him out of the town; and when he had spitG4429 on his eyes, and put his hands upon him, he asked him if he saw ought.