Greek verb · G3021
λευκαίνω
leukainolyoo-kah'-ee-no
to bleach
2 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: leukaínō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G3021is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 27New Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G3021
to whiten
The King James renders it: make white, whiten.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
leukaino is rendered "to bleach". It stands 2 times in the Greek text, across two books.
- One of the uses stand in Mark, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Mark 9:3His clothes became radiantly white, brighter than any launderer on earth could bleach them.
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
His clothes became radiantly white, brighter than any launderer on earth could bleach them.
Mark 9:3λευκᾶναι
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
One of the word's two uses is in Mark.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- made white1
- to whiten1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| λευκός | leukos | white | Uses25 |
All 2, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- ἐλεύκαναν1
- λευκᾶναι1
The grammar of each form
- verb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person plural1V-AAI-3P
- verb · aorist active, infinitive (“to…”)1V-AAN
Mark
one use
His clothes became radiantly white, brighter than any launderer on earth could bleach them.
- λευκᾶναιleukanaiverb · aorist active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to whiten
Revelation
one use
“Sir,” I answered, “you know.” So he replied, “These are the ones who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
- ἐλεύκανανeleukananverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: made white
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.