κονιάω
koniáō · G2867 · Greek · 2 occurrences
Thing
- Plaster, stucco, whitewashBuilders19 verses
Meanings
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to whitewash
To apply whitewash to a surface
ExamplesMatthew 23:27 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs which on the outside appear beautiful, but inside they are full of dead men’s bones and all uncleanness.
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hypocrite, impostor
(An idiom, literally: whitewashed wall) One who pretends to be one thing, while in reality he is something quite different
ExamplesActs 23:3 Then Paul said to him, “God is going to strike you, you whitewashed wall! Do you sit to try me according to the Law, and in violation of the Law, order me to be struck?”
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- Not stated (participle) 2
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 2 groups
- γέμωto be full of 1
- φαίνωto shine, to appear 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Semantic domains 2 entries
- To whitewash45.12
- κονιάω describes covering something with whitewash. Matthew 23:27 has Jesus rebuking the Pharisees, “you are like whitewashed tombs which on the outside appear beautiful, but inside they are full of dead men’s bones and all uncleanness,” the κεκονιαμένοις naming this whitewashing that conceals the tombs’ inner corruption.
- Hypocrite, impostor88.234
- The same verb, applied figuratively to a person, denotes one whose outward appearance conceals inner corruption, i.e. a hypocrite. Acts 23:3 has Paul rebuking the high priest, “God is going to strike you, you whitewashed wall! Do you sit to try me according to the Law, and in violation of the Law, order me to be struck?” the κεκονιαμένε naming Ananias as this whitewashed hypocrite.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon κονίω: perfect passive participle κεκονιαμενος; (from κονία, which signifies not only…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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