leukos · white

What it means

leukos (λευκός) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “white”.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The color of snow or light, like angels' clothing.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×3
• Mark×2
• Luke×1
• John×2
• Acts×1
• Revelation×16

• Matthew 5:36

  Nor swear by your head, for you cannot make one hair white or black.

• Matthew 17:2

  And he was transfigured before them, and his face shone like the sun, and his clothes became white as the light.

• Matthew 28:3

  And his appearance was like lightning, and his clothing white as snow.

• Mark 9:3

  and his clothes became radiant, intensely white, such as no launderer on earth can whiten them like that.

• Mark 16:5

  And entering into the tomb, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, dressed in a white robe, and they were greatly alarmed.

• Luke 9:29

  And it happened, while he was praying, that the appearance of his face became different, and his clothing became white, flashing like lightning.

• John 4:35

  Do you not say, ‘There are still four months, and then the harvest comes’? Look, I tell you, lift up your eyes and see the fields, that they are white for harvest. Already

• John 20:12

  and she sees two angels in white, sitting, one at the head and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus had been lying.

• Acts 1:10

  And as they were gazing into heaven while he was going, look, two men stood by them in white clothing,

• Revelation 1:14

  His head and hair were white like white wool, like snow, and his eyes were like a flame of fire,

• Revelation 2:17

  Whoever has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To the one who conquers I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written that no one knows except the one who receives it.

• Revelation 3:4

  But you have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled their clothes, and they will walk with me in white, for they are worthy.

• Revelation 3:5

  The one who conquers will thus be clothed in white clothes, and I will never erase his name from the book of life, and I will acknowledge his name before my Father and before his angels.

• Revelation 3:18

  I advise you to buy from me gold refined by fire, so that you may be rich, and white clothes so that you may clothe yourself and the shame of your nakedness may not be exposed, and salve to put on your eyes so that you may see.

• Revelation 4:4

  And around the throne were twenty-four thrones, and on the thrones twenty-four elders seated, clothed in white clothes, and on their heads golden crowns.

• Revelation 6:2

  And I looked, and look, a white horse, and the one who sat on it had a bow; and a crown was given to him, and he went out conquering and to conquer.

• Revelation 6:11

  And to each of them was given a white robe, and they were told to rest a little while longer, until the number also of their fellow slaves and their brothers who were about to be killed as they themselves had been would be completed.

• Revelation 7:9

  After these things I looked, and look, a great crowd that no one could count, from every nation and tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, and palm branches in their hands;

• Revelation 7:13

  And one of the elders answered, saying to me, “These, who are clothed in the white robes, who are they, and where have they come from?”

• Revelation 14:14

  And I looked, and look, a white cloud, and on the cloud one who sat like a son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle.

• Revelation 19:11

  And I saw heaven opened, and look, a white horse, and the one who sat on it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he judges and makes war.

• Revelation 19:14

  And the armies that are in heaven were following him on white horses, clothed in white, pure fine linen.

• Revelation 20:11

  And I saw a great white throne and the one who sat on it, from whose presence the earth and heaven fled, and no place was found for them.

And 2 more times.