UBS Greek Dictionary Article

Form 1

Part of speech: verb

Inflections: λευκαίνω; aor.; ἐλεύκανα; λευκαίνω; inf.; λευκᾶναι

Related lemmas: λευκός

Sense 1: to make white, to whiten

Semantic entry: 79.28

Semantic domains: Features of Objects

Subdomains: Color

Definition: to cause something to become white

Notes: This statement in RV REV 7:14 · LV REV 7:14 · Read together REV 7:14 may raise numerous difficulties for receptors, since blood would not be regarded as an instrument for making anything white. It may be necessary, therefore, to introduce a marginal note explaining the figurative language and suggesting the rendering ‘to make them pure.’

MRK 9:3: RV MRK 9:3 · LV MRK 9:3 · Read together MRK 9:3

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OET-RV MRK 9:3

3 and his clothes turned incredibly shining white—whiter than any bleach could make them.

OET-LV MRK 9:3

3 and the clothes of _him became shining exceedingly white, such _as a_launderer on the earth is_ not _able to _whiten thus.

REV 7:14: RV REV 7:14 · LV REV 7:14 · Read together REV 7:14

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OET-RV REV 7:14

14 “Sir, you are the one who knows,” I answered.
¶ And then he told me, “Those are the ones who’ve come through the terrible tribulation, and they’ve washed their robes in the blood of the lamb and made them white.

OET-LV REV 7:14

14 And I _have _said to _him:
master of _me, you you _have _known.
And he _said to _me:
These are the ones coming out _of the tribulation the great, and they _washed the robes of _them, and they _whitened them in the blood of _the lamb.

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

λευκαίνω

Form 1

Sense 1: to make white, to whiten