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Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words

is used of (a) clothing (sometimes in the sense of "bright"), Matthew 17:2; 28:3; Mark 9:3; 16:5; Luke 9:29; John 20:12; Acts 1:10; symbolically, Revelation 3:4,5,18; 4:4; 6:11; 7:9,13; 19:14 (2nd part); (b) hair, Matthew 5:36; Christ's head and hair (in a vision; cp. Daniel 7:9 ), Revelation 1:14 (twice); ripened grain, John 4:35; a stone, Revelation 2:17 , an expression of the Lord's special delight in the overcomer, the new name on it being indicative of a secret communication of love and joy; a horse (in a vision), Revelation 6:2; 19:11,14 (1st part); a cloud, Revelation 14:14; the throne of God, Revelation 20:11 .

Note: Lampros, "bright, clear," is rendered "white" in Revelation 15:6 , AV, of "white (linen)" (RV, "bright," following those mss. which have lithon "stone"); in Revelation 19:8 (RV, "bright"). See BRIGHT , CLEAR , GOODLY , Note, GORGEOUS.

"to whiten, make white" (akin to A), is used in Mark 9:3; figuratively in Revelation 7:14 .

from konia, "dust, lime," denotes "to whiten, whitewash," of tombs, Matthew 23:27; figuratively of a hypocrite, Acts 23:3 . In the Sept., Deuteronomy 27:2,4; Proverbs 21:9 .