UBS Greek Dictionary Article

Form 1

Part of speech: noun, m.

Inflections: τοῖχος; -ου

Related lemmas: μεσότοιχον · τεῖχος

Sense 1: wall

Semantic entry: 7.46

Semantic domains: Constructions

Subdomains: Parts and Areas of Buildings

Definition: wall of a house or enclosure

Notes: A literal translation of the phrase ‘whitewashed wall’ is rarely meaningful. Sometimes one can use a descriptive phrase such as ‘a dirty wall which is made to look white’ or ‘… to look clean.’ In other instances one may wish to focus upon the function suggested by the idiom ‘whitewashed wall’ and employ a phrase such as ‘one who has been made to look good but really isn’t.’

ACT 23:3: RV ACT 23:3 · LV ACT 23:3 · Read together ACT 23:3

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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?

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