τοῖχος
toichos
G5109
G:N-M
Greek
wall
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Greek
Language
Toichos is used as a direct address for a “whitewashed” wall in a rebuke.
The attested use addresses someone as a wall, qualified in the verse as “having been whitewashed,” within a rebuke.
Senses in use
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Wall used in direct rebuke · dominant
In Acts 23:3, the vocative singular masculine form addresses a person as a wall in the accusation that he sits judging according to the law while ordering a striking. The APB renders the clause, “God is about to strike you, wall having been whitewashed.”
In the Anselm Project Bible: In Acts 23:3, the APB presents the term in the phrase “wall having been whitewashed.” The precise division of that English phrase cannot be established from the rendering alone.