τοῖχος
toîchos · G5109 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Thing
Meanings
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wall
Wall of a house or enclosure
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?”
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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
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
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
- Wall7.46
- Acts 23:3 — “Then Paul said to him, ‘God is going to strike you, you whitewashed wall!’”
- Hypocrite, impostor88.234
- Acts 23:3 — “Then Paul said to him, ‘God is going to strike you, you whitewashed wall!’” (a whitewashed wall — outwardly clean, concealing decay within — is a figure for hypocrisy)
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Also from the root τεῖχος
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon τοίχου, ὁ, from Homer down, the Sept. often for קִיר, a wall (especially of a house; cf.…
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
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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