koniao - 2867 - New Testament Greek - Lexicons

Lexicon Entry for "2867" in TGD, SGL

Number:	2867 (Find in Bible)
Word:	κονιαω
Transliterated:	koniao
Pronunciation:	kon-ee-ah'-o
Part of Speech:	verb
Short Definition:	whiten
Usage count:	2

Thayer's Greek Definitions

1) to cover with lime, plaster over, whitewash
1a) the Jews were accustomed to whitewash the entrances to their sepulchres, as a warning against defilement by touching them
1b) term applied to a hypocrite who conceals his malice under an outward assumption of piety

Thayers Definitions are as edited by the Online Bible of Winterbourne, Ontario. They removed the etymology, cross-references, and Greek phrases and changed some of Thayers Unitarian doctrinal positions concerning the work and person of Christ.

Strong's Greek Lexicon

from κονια konia (dust; by analogy, lime); to whitewash:-whiten.

Owing to changes in the enumeration while in progress, there were no words left for numbers 2717 and 3203-3302, which were therefore silently dropped out of the vocabulary and references as redundant.

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