To whitewash
שִׂידStrong’s H7874sid
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Sid is the Hebrew word usually translated “whitewash”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And it shall be on the day when ye shall pass over Jordan unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, that thou shalt set thee up great stones, and plaister them with plaister:”
Meaning
- (Qal) to whitewash
How it's translated
- and you will whitewash 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Deuteronomy 2
1 book in all.
Related words
Hebrew dictionary
שִׂיד sid · to whitewash
(Qal) to whitewash
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “whitewash” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WHITEWASH, noun
[white and wash.]
- A wash or liquid composition for whitening something; a wash for making the skin fair.
- A composition of lime and water, used for whitening the plaster of walls, etc.
All definitions and other forms of “whitewash”
WHITEWASH, verb transitive
- To cover with a white liquid composition, as with lime and water, etc.
- To make white; to give a fair external appearance.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.