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Koine Greek wordlink #158912

SR GNT Rev 7:14 ἐλεύκαναν (eleukanan) ‘robes of them and they whitened them in the’ Strongs=30210 Lemma=leukainō
Word role=verb mood=indicative tense=aorist voice=active person=3rd number=plural
Year=96 AD Refers to Word #158873

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Only use of identical word form ἐλεύκαναν (V-IAA3··P) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ἐλεύκαναν’ (V-IAA3··P) is always and only glossed as ‘they whitened’.

Rev 7:14 ‘robes of them and they whitened them in the’ SR GNT Rev 7:14 word 29

OET-LV: 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. (REV_7:14)

OET-RV: 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. (REV 7:14)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘leukainō’ have 2 different glosses: ‘to whiten’, ‘they whitened’.

Key: V=verb