Bible Dictionary: Whiten

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (v. i.) To grow white; to turn or become white or whiter; as, the hair whitens with age; the sea whitens with foam; the trees in spring whiten with blossoms.

2. (v. t.) To make white; to bleach; to blanch; to whitewash; as, to whiten a wall; to whiten cloth.

Greek

3021. leukaino -- to whiten, to make white
... to whiten, to make white. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: leukaino Phonetic
Spelling: (lyoo-kah'-ee-no) Short Definition: I whiten Definition: I whiten ...
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2867. koniao -- to plaster over
... whiten, whitewash. From konia (dust; by analogy, lime); to whitewash -- whiten.
(kekoniamene) -- 1 Occurrence. (kekoniamenois) -- 1 Occurrence. 2866, 2867. ...
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Strong's Hebrew

7893. shayish -- alabaster
... Whiten, white, marble. From an unused root meaning to bleach, ie Whiten; white,
ie Marble. See shesh. see HEBREW shesh. 7892b, 7893. shayish. 7894 . ...
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Library

That by this Alone the Jews Can Receive Pardon of their Sins, if ...
... And come, let us reason together, saith the Lord: and although your sins be as scarlet,
I will whiten [3926] them as snow; and although they were as crimson, I ...
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John xiii. 1
... Yet consider how great is the reward. "Though," it saith, "your sins be as scarlet,
I will whiten them as snow; though they be red like crimson, I will whiten ...
/.../homilies on the gospel of st john and hebrews/homily lxx john xiii 1.htm

God Has Everything to do with Prayer
... Who can gild refined gold, whiten the snow, perfume the rose or heighten the colors
of the summer sunset? Who will prop the mountains or help the great deep? ...
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Soul-Rest.
... Gigantic "Majesties" and "Kaiser Wilhelms" and "Oregons" and "Vizcayas" plow and
whiten the surface; tempests rage and Euroclydons roar and currents change and ...
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And He Said unto Them, Verily I Say unto You...
... his face shone like the sun, and his raiment was very white like the snow, and as
[5] the light of lightning, so that nothing on earth can whiten [1685] like it ...
/.../hogg/the diatessaron of tatian/section xxiv and he said.htm

Continuation Respecting Repentance.
... He declares, Though your sins be like crimson, I will make them white as snow;
though they be like scarlet, I will whiten them like wool. ...
/.../chapter viii continuation respecting repentance.htm

Continuation Respecting Repentance.
... He declares, Though your sins be like crimson, I will make them white as snow;
though they be like scarlet, I will whiten them like wool. ...
/.../the epistles of clement/chapter viii continuation respecting repentance.htm

The Transfiguration
... mountain apart by themselves: and He was transfigured before them: and His garments
became glistening, exceeding white: so as no fuller on earth can whiten them ...
/.../chadwick/the gospel of st mark/chapter 9 2-8 the transfiguration.htm

O Gift that Camest up Without Price with the Diver!
... Receive my offering, not that Thou art shortcoming; it is because of mine own
shortcoming that I have offered it to Thee. Whiten my stains! ...
/.../ephraim/hymns and homilies of ephraim the syrian/hymn v o gift that.htm

An Impossibility Made Possible
... there with tawny yellow, it is ineradicable; and a man can no more change his character
once formed than a can cast his skin, or a leopard whiten out the ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture h/an impossibility made possible.htm

Thesaurus

Whiten (1 Occurrence)
... 1. (vi) To grow white; to turn or become white or whiter; as, the hair whitens with
age; the sea whitens with foam; the trees in spring whiten with blossoms. ...
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Fuller (5 Occurrences)
... Easton's Bible Dictionary The word "full" is from the Anglo-Saxon fullian, meaning
"to whiten." To full is to press or scour cloth in a mill. ...
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Bleach (1 Occurrence)
... 1. (v.) To make white, or whiter; to remove the color, or stains, from; to blanch;
to whiten. 2. (vi) To grow white or lose color; to whiten. ...
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Lime (4 Occurrences)
... 8. (vt) To treat with lime, or oxide or hydrate of calcium; to manure with lime;
as, to lime hides for removing the hair; to lime sails in order to whiten them ...
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Launderer (1 Occurrence)
... Launderer (1 Occurrence). Mark 9:3 His clothing became glistening, exceedingly white,
like snow, such as no launderer on earth can whiten them. (WEB NAS). ...
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Glittering (12 Occurrences)
... Mark 9:3 and his garments became glittering, white exceedingly, as snow, so as
a fuller upon the earth is not able to whiten 'them'. (YLT). ...
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Glistening (4 Occurrences)
... Glistening (4 Occurrences). Mark 9:3 His clothing became glistening, exceedingly
white, like snow, such as no launderer on earth can whiten them. (WEB RSV). ...
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Glistering (3 Occurrences)
... Glistering (3 Occurrences). Mark 9:3 and his garments became glistering, exceeding
white, so as no fuller on earth can whiten them. (ASV). ...
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Whitewash (7 Occurrences)
... ceilings, etc.; milk of lime. 3. (vt) To apply a white liquid composition
to; to whiten with whitewash. 4. (vt) To make white; to ...
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White-hot (1 Occurrence)
White-hot. White-haired, White-hot. Whiten . Noah Webster's Dictionary ...
(WEY). White-haired, White-hot. Whiten . Reference Bible.
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Bible Concordance

Whiten (1 Occurrence)

Mark 9:3 His clothing became glistening, exceedingly white, like snow, such as no launderer on earth can whiten them.
(WEB WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)

Subtopics

Whiten

Related Terms

Fuller (5 Occurrences)

Bleach (1 Occurrence)

Lime (4 Occurrences)

Launderer (1 Occurrence)

Glittering (12 Occurrences)

Glistening (4 Occurrences)