ΛΕΥΚΑΝΕ, λευκανε
LEUKANE, leukane
Sounds Like: le-oo-KAH-ne
Translations: to whiten, to make white, to become white, to cleanse, to purify
From the root: ΛΕΥΚΑΙΝΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word describes the action of making something white or becoming white. It can refer to a literal change in color, such as clothes becoming white, or it can be used metaphorically to mean to cleanse or purify, especially in a moral or spiritual sense. It implies a process of transformation towards purity or brightness.
Inflection: Aorist Active Indicative, 3rd Person Singular (ΕΛΕΥΚΑΝΕΝ); Aorist Active Infinitive (ΛΕΥΚΑΝΑΙ). The provided form 'ΛΕΥΚΑΝΕ' is likely a variant or a misspelling of the 3rd person singular aorist active indicative form 'ΕΛΕΥΚΑΝΕΝ', or it could potentially be an imperative form, though less common for this verb.
Strong’s number: G3021 (Lookup on BibleHub)
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From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΛΕΥΚΑΙΝΩ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ἘΚΛΕΥΚΑΝΘΩΣΙΝ — may be made white, might be whitened, may be cleansed, might be cleansed
- ἘΛΕΥΚΑΝΑΝ — they whitened, they made white, they cleansed, they purified
- ἘΛΕΥΚΑΝΕΝ — he whitened, she whitened, it whitened, he made white, she made white, it made white
- ΕΚΛΕΥΚΑΝΘΩΣΙΝ — they may be made white, they may be whitened, they may become white
- ΕΛΕΥΚΑΝΑΝ — they made white, they whitened, they cleansed, they purified
- ΕΛΕΥΚΑΝΕΝ — made white, whitened, became white, made bright, cleansed
- ΛΕΛΕΥΚΑΝΘΙΣΜΕΝΗ — made white, whitened, having been made white, having been whitened
- ΛΕΥΚΑΙΝΟΥΣΑ — whitening, making white, becoming white
- ΛΕΥΚΑΙΝΩ — to whiten, to make white, to become white
- ΛΕΥΚΑΝΑΙ — to whiten, to make white
- ΛΕΥΚΑΝΘΗΣΟΜΑΙ — I will be made white, I will be whitened
- ΛΕΥΚΩ — to whiten, to make white, to cleanse, to purify
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