To WIPE OUT, erase — an accounting word before it is a tender one. ⚠ Five occurrences in the New Testament: blotting out sins (Acts 3:19), cancelling the handwritten record of debt (Colossians 2:14), NOT blotting a name out of the book of life (Revelation 3:5), and twice of tears (Revelation 7:17 and 21:4). So 'he will wipe away every tear' uses the verb for removing an entry from a ledger. The gesture is erasure, not comfort. → first discussed at Rev 21:4