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Strong's #3022: leukos (pronounced lyoo-kos')

from luke ("light"); white:--white.




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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leukos

1) light, bright, brilliant

1a) brilliant from whiteness, (dazzling) white

1a1) of the garments of angels, and of those exalted to the splendour of the heavenly state

1a2) shining or white garments worn on festive or state occasions

1a3) of white garments as the sign of innocence and purity of the soul

1b) dead white

1b1) of the whitening colour of ripening grain

Part of Speech: adjective

Relation: from luke ("light" )

Citing in TDNT: 4:241, 530




Usage:

This word is used 25 times:

Matthew 5:36: "make one hair white or black."
Matthew 17:2: "his raiment was white as the light."
Matthew 28:3: "and his raiment white as snow:"
Mark 9:3: "became shining, exceeding white as snow; so as no"
Mark 16:5: "the right side, clothed in a long white garment; and they were affrighted."
Luke 9:29: "and his raiment was white and glistering."
John 4:35: "fields; for they are white already to harvest."
John 20:12: "two angels in white sitting, the one at the"
Acts 1:10: "stood by them in white apparel;"
Revelation 1:14: "head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as"
Revelation 1:14: "were white like wool, as white as snow; and his"
Revelation 2:17: "manna, and will give him a white stone, and in"
Revelation 3:4: "with me in white: for they are worthy."
Revelation 3:5: "the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out"
Revelation 3:18: "that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and"
Revelation 4:4: "four and twenty elders sitting, clothed in white"
Revelation 6:2: "I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on"
Revelation 6:11: "And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them,"
Revelation 7:9: "before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms"
Revelation 7:13: "are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came"
Revelation 14:14: "I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the"
Revelation 19:11: "opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon"
Revelation 19:14: "followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white"
Revelation 19:14: "horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean."
Revelation 20:11: "And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on"









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