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WHITEWASH

A liquid plaster colored with lime and used to whiten walls. Metaphorically, “whitewash” implies hypocrisy, the concealment of inner corruption. All biblical references to whitewash (except Prov. 21:9 LXX) carry this force.

Ezekiel likens promises of peace made by false prophets to a whitewashed wall of loose stones (Ezek. 13:10-16), and Paul employs similar imagery in referring to Ananias (Acts 23:3). Jesus calls the Pharisees “whitewashed tombs” (Matt. 23:27), but the Jewish practice of chalking graves in order to avoid accidental defilement may have suggested this rich metaphor.

Perry L. Stepp






Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)

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