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Lexicon :: Strong's G3022 - leukos

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λευκός
Transliteration
leukos (Key)
Pronunciation
lyoo-kos'
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Part of Speech
adjective
Root Word (Etymology)
From luke ("light")
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 4:241,530

Strong’s Definitions

λευκός leukós, lyoo-kos'; from λύκη lýkē ("light"); white:—white.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 25x

The KJV translates Strong's G3022 in the following manner: white (25x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 25x
The KJV translates Strong's G3022 in the following manner: white (25x).

  1. light, bright, brilliant

    1. brilliant from whiteness, (dazzling) white

      1. of the garments of angels, and of those exalted to the splendour of the heavenly state

      2. shining or white garments worn on festive or state occasions

      3. of white garments as the sign of innocence and purity of the soul

    2. dead white

      1. of the whitening colour of ripening grain

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
λευκός leukós, lyoo-kos'; from λύκη lýkē ("light"); white:—white.
STRONGS G3022:
λευκός, λευκή, λευκόν (λεύσσω to see, behold, look at; akin to Latinluceo, German leuchten; cf. Curtius, p. 113 and § 87; (Vanicek, p. 817)), the Sept. for לָבָן:
1. light, bright, brilliant: τά ἱμάτια... λευκά ὡς τό φῶς, Matthew 17:2; especially bright or brilliant from whiteness, (dazzling) white: spoken of the garments of angels, and of those exalted to the splendor of the heavenly state, Mark 16:5; Luke 9:29; Acts 1:10; Revelation 3:5; Revelation 4:4; Revelation 6:11; Revelation 7:9, 13; Revelation 19:14 (shining or white garments were worn on festive and state occasions, Ecclesiastes 9:8; cf. Heindorf on Horace sat. 2, 2, 61); with ὡσεί or ὡς ὁ χιών added: Mark 9:3 R L; Matthew 28:3 (ἵπποι λευκοτεροι χιόνος, Homer, Iliad 10, 437); ἐν λευκοῖς namely, ἱματίοις (added in Revelation 3:5; Revelation 4:4), John 20:12; Revelation 3:4; cf. Winers Grammar, 591 (550); (Buttmann, 82 (72)); used of white garments as the sign of innocence and purity of soul, Revelation 3:18; of the heavenly throne, Revelation 20:11.
2. (dead) white: Matthew 5:36 (opposed to μέλας); Revelation 1:14; Revelation 2:17; Revelation 4:4; Revelation 6:2; Revelation 14:14; Revelation 19:11; spoken of the whitening color of ripening grain, John 4:35.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Ecclesiastes
9:8
Matthew
5:36; 17:2; 28:3
Mark
9:3; 16:5
Luke
9:29
John
4:35; 20:12
Acts
1:10
Revelation
1:14; 2:17; 3:4; 3:5; 3:5; 3:18; 4:4; 4:4; 4:4; 6:2; 6:11; 7:9; 7:13; 14:14; 19:11; 19:14; 20:11

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G3022 matches the Greek λευκός (leukos),
which occurs 32 times in 28 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:35

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:35 - And he separated in that day the spotted and speckled he-goats, and all the spotted and speckled she-goats, and all that was grey among the rams, and every one that was white among them, and he gave them into the hand of his sons.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:37

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:37 - And Jacob took to himself green rods of storax tree and walnut and plane-tree; and Jacob peeled in them white stripes; and as [fn]he drew off the green, the white stripe which he had made appeared alternate on the rods.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:8 - If he should say thus, The speckled shall be thy reward, then all the cattle would bear speckled; and if he should say, The white shall be thy reward, then would all the cattle bear white.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:12 - His eyes shall be more cheering than wine, and his teeth whiter than milk.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:14 - in the morning it came to pass as the dew ceased round about the camp, that, behold, on the face of the wilderness was a small thing like white coriander seed, as frost upon the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:31

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:31 - And the children of Israel called the name of it Man; and it was as white coriander seed, and the taste of it as a wafer with honey.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:3 - And the priest shall view the spot in the skin of his flesh; and if the hair in the spot be changed to white, and the appearance of the spot be below the skin of the flesh, it is a plague of leprosy; and the priest shall look upon it, and pronounce him unclean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:4 - But if the spot be clear and white in the skin of his flesh, yet the appearance of it be not deep below the skin, and its hair have not changed itself for white hair, but it is dark, then the priest shall separate him that has the spot seven days;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:10 - and the priest shall look, and, behold, if it is a white spot in the skin, and it has changed the hair to white, and there be some of the sound part of the quick flesh in the sore—

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:13 - then the priest shall look, and, behold, the leprosy has covered all the skin of the flesh; and the priest shall pronounce him clean of the plague, because it has changed all to white, it is clean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:16

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:16 - But if the sound flesh be restored and changed to white, then shall he come to the priest;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:17

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:17 - and the priest shall see him, and, behold, if the plague is turned white, then the priest shall pronounce the patient clean: he is clean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:19

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:19 - and there should be in the place of the ulcer a white sore, or one looking white and bright, or fiery, and it shall be seen by the priest;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:20

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:20 - then the priest shall look, and, behold, if the appearance be beneath the skin, and its hair has changed to white, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; because it is a leprosy, it has broken out in the ulcer.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:21 - But if the priest look, and behold there is no white hair on it, and it be not below the skin of the flesh, and it be dark-coloured; then the priest shall separate him seven days.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:24

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:24 - And if the flesh be in his skin in a state of fiery inflammation, and there should be in his skin the part which is healed of the inflammation, bright, clear, and white, suffused with red or very white;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:25

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:25 - then the priest shall look upon him, and, behold, if the hair being white is changed to a bright colour, and its appearance is lower than the skin, it is a leprosy; it has broken out in the inflammation, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a plague of leprosy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:26 - But if the priest should look, and, behold, there is not in the bright spot any white hair, and it should not be lower than the skin, and it should be dark, then the priest shall separate him seven days.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:42

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:42 - And if there should be in his baldness of head, or his baldness of forehead, a white or fiery plague, it is leprosy in his baldness of head, or baldness of forehead.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:43

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:43 - And the priest shall look upon him, and, behold, if the appearance of the plague be white or inflamed in his baldness of head or baldness in front, as the appearance of leprosy in the skin of his flesh,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:8 - Let thy garments be always white; and let not oil be wanting on thine head.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:10 - My kinsman is white and ruddy, chosen out from myriads.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:19 - I will plant in the dry land the cedar and box, the myrtle and cypress, and white poplar:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 7:9 - I beheld until the thrones were set, and the Ancient of days sat; and his raiment was white as snow, and the hair of his head as pure wool: his throne was a flame of fire, and his wheels burning fire.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:13 - They have sacrificed on the tops of the mountains, and on the hills they have sacrificed under the oak and poplar, and under the shady tree, because the shade was good: therefore your daughters shall go a-whoring, and your daughters-in-law shall commit adultery.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 1:8 - I saw by night, and behold a man mounted on a red horse, and he stood between the shady mountains; and behind him were red horses, and grey, and piebald, and white.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 6:3

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 6:3 - and in the third chariot white horses; and in the fourth chariot piebald and ash-coloured horses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 6:6

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 6:6 - As for the chariot in which were the black horses, they went out to the land of the north; and the white went out after them; and the piebald went out to the land of the south.
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