Greek adjective · G3022
λευκός
leukoslyoo-kos'
bright, brilliant; white
25 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: leukós
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G3022is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 6 of 27New Testament books
- 14spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G3022
white
The King James renders it: white.
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
leukos is rendered "bright, brilliant; white". It stands 25 times in the Greek text, across six books.
- Sixteen of the uses stand in Revelation, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "bright, brilliant".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 5:36Nor should you swear by your head, for you cannot make a single hair white or black.
- The Greek text spells it fourteen different ways.
The first use
Nor should you swear by your head, for you cannot make a single hair white or black.
Matthew 5:36λευκὴν
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
The word carries two meanings: bright, brilliant, and white.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| bright, brilliantof clothing | Tagged as
| WhereEcclesiastes 9:8Let your garments always be white, and never spare the oil for your head. |
| whiteMat.5:36, Rev.1:14 2:17 4:4 6:2 14:14 19:11; figuratively, of garments, Rev.3:18; of ripened grain, Jhn.4:35.† (AS) | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereMatthew 5:36Nor should you swear by your head, for you cannot make a single hair white or black. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| λευκαίνω | leukaino | to bleach | Uses2 |
All 25, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
14 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
- λευκοῖς5
- λευκὸν4
- λευκὰ3
- λευκὴν2
- λευκὸς2
- λευκαί1
- λευκαὶ1
- λευκαῖς1
- λευκάς1
- λευκὰς1
- λευκή1
- λευκὴ1
and 2 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- adjective · dative (“to / for”) · neuter plural4A-DPN
- adjective · accusative (object) · feminine singular3A-ASF
- adjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singular3A-NSM
- adjective · accusative (object) · feminine plural2A-APF
- adjective · nominative (subject) · feminine plural2A-NPF
- adjective · nominative (subject) · neuter plural2A-NPN
- adjective · nominative (subject) · feminine singular2A-NSF
- adjective · nominative (subject) · neuter singular2A-NSN
- adjective · accusative (object) · neuter plural1A-APN
- adjective · accusative (object) · masculine singular1A-ASM
- adjective · accusative (object) · neuter singular1A-ASN
- adjective · dative (“to / for”) · feminine plural1A-DPF
Matthew
three uses
Nor should you swear by your head, for you cannot make a single hair white or black.
- λευκὴνleukenadjective · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: white
There He was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and His clothes became as white as the light.
- λευκὰleukaadjective · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: white
His appearance was like lightning, and his clothes were white as snow.
- λευκὸνleukonadjective · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: white
Mark
two uses
His clothes became radiantly white, brighter than any launderer on earth could bleach them.
- λευκὰleukaadjective · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: white
When they entered the tomb, they saw a young man dressed in a white robe sitting on the right side, and they were alarmed.
- λευκὴνleukenadjective · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: white
Luke
one use
And as He was praying, the appearance of His face changed, and His clothes became radiantly white.
- λευκὸςleukosadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: white
John
two uses
Do you not say, ‘There are still four months until the harvest’? I tell you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are ripe for harvest.
- λευκαίleukaiadjective · nominative (subject) · feminine pluraltagged: white
and she saw two angels in white sitting where the body of Jesus had lain, one at the head and the other at the feet.
- λευκοῖςleukoisadjective · dative (“to / for”) · neuter pluraltagged: white
Acts
one use
They were looking intently into the sky as He was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them.
- λευκαῖςleukaisadjective · dative (“to / for”) · feminine pluraltagged: white
Revelation
sixteen uses
The hair of His head was white like wool, as white as snow, and His eyes were like a blazing fire.
- λευκαὶleukaiadjective · nominative (subject) · feminine pluraltagged: white
- λευκὸνleukonadjective · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: white
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who overcomes, I will give the hidden manna. I will also give him a white stone inscribed with a new name, known only to the one who receives it.
- λευκήνleukenadjective · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: white
But you do have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled their garments, and because they are worthy, they will walk with Me in white.
- λευκοῖςleukoisadjective · dative (“to / for”) · neuter pluraltagged: white
Like them, he who overcomes will be dressed in white. And I will never blot out his name from the Book of Life, but I will confess his name before My Father and His angels.
- λευκοῖςleukoisadjective · dative (“to / for”) · neuter pluraltagged: white
I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined by fire so that you may become rich, white garments so that you may be clothed and your shameful nakedness not exposed, and salve to anoint your eyes so that you may see.
- λευκὰleukaadjective · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: white
Surrounding the throne were twenty-four other thrones, and on these thrones sat twenty-four elders dressed in white, with golden crowns on their heads.
- λευκοῖςleukoisadjective · dative (“to / for”) · neuter pluraltagged: white
So I looked and saw a white horse, and its rider held a bow. And he was given a crown, and he rode out to overcome and conquer.
- λευκὸςleukosadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: white
Then each of them was given a white robe and told to rest a little while longer, until the full number of their fellow servants, their brothers, were killed, just as they had been killed.
- λευκὴleukeadjective · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: white
After this I looked and saw a multitude too large to count, from every nation and tribe and people and tongue, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and holding palm branches in their hands.
- λευκὰςleukasadjective · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: white
Then one of the elders addressed me: “These in white robes,” he asked, “who are they, and where have they come from?”
- λευκάςleukasadjective · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: white
And I looked and saw a white cloud, and seated on the cloud was One like the Son of Man, with a golden crown on His head and a sharp sickle in His hand.
- λευκήleukeadjective · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: white
Then I saw heaven standing open, and there before me was a white horse. And its rider is called Faithful and True. With righteousness He judges and wages war.
- λευκόςleukosadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: white
The armies of heaven, dressed in fine linen, white and pure, follow Him on white horses.
- λευκοῖςleukoisadjective · dative (“to / for”) · masculine pluraltagged: white
- λευκὸνleukonadjective · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: white
Then I saw a great white throne and the One seated on it. Earth and heaven fled from His presence, and no place was found for them.
- λευκὸνleukonadjective · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: 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 words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
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.