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UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

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κονιάω

Strong’s: G2867

Associated OET lemmas: κονιάω

Form 1

Part of speech: verb

Related lemmas: κονιορτός

Sense 1: to whitewash

Semantic entry: 45.12

Semantic domains: Building, Constructing

Definition: to apply whitewash to a surface

Notes: For many languages the closest equivalent of the phrase ‘whitewashed tombs’ is simply ‘tombs that have been painted white.’

Show passage in OET: MAT 23:27

OET-RV MAT 23:27

27 “You religious teachers and Farisaios are hypocrites and will have a bad end, because you’re like whitewashed tombs. On the outside they might look nice, but the insides are full of dead people’s bones and all kinds of impurities,

OET-LV MAT 23:27

27 Woe to_you_all, scribes and Farisaios_party, hypocrites.
Because you_all_are_being_like to_tombs having_been_whitewashed, which on_one_hand are_appearing beautiful outwardly, on_the_other_hand inside they_are_being_full of_bones of_the_dead and of_all impurity.

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Sense 2: hypocrite, impostor

Semantic entry: 88.234

Semantic domains: Moral and Ethical Qualities and Related Behavior

Subdomains: Hypocrisy, Pretense

Definition: (an idiom, literally: whitewashed wall) one who pretends to be one thing, while in reality he is something quite different

Collocations: τοῖχος κεκονιαμένος

Show passage in OET: ACT 23:3

OET-RV ACT 23:3

3 “God will strike you,” said Paulos, “you grand show-off. You’ve been brought here to judge me as someone who knows the law and yet you violate the law by commanding that I be hit in the face.”

OET-LV ACT 23:3

3 Then the Paulos said to him:
- god is_going to_be_striking you, wall having_been_whitewashed.
And are_ you _sitting judging me according_to the law, and you_are_ violating_law _commanding me to_be_being_struck?

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