Strong's #2511: katharizo (pronounced kath-ar-id'-zo)

from 2513; to cleanse (literally or figuratively):--(make) clean(-se), purge, purify.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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katharizō

1) to make clean, cleanse

1a) from physical stains and dirt

1a1) utensils, food

1a2) a leper, to cleanse by curing

1a3) to remove by cleansing

1b) in a moral sense

1b1) to free from defilement of sin and from faults

1b2) to purify from wickedness

1b3) to free from guilt of sin, to purify

1b4) to consecrate by cleansing or purifying

1b5) to consecrate, dedicate

2) to pronounce clean in a levitical sense

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: from G2513

Citing in TDNT: 3:413, 381

Usage:

This word is used 30 times:

 

Matthew 8:2: "if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean."
Matthew 8:3: "him, saying, I will; be thou clean. And immediately his leprosy"
Matthew 8:3: "immediately his leprosy was cleansed."
Matthew 10:8: "Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils:"
Matthew 11:5: "the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead"
Matthew 23:25: "Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup"
Matthew 23:26: "Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup"
Mark 1:40: "If thou wilt, thou canst make me clean."
Mark 1:41: "saith unto him, I will; be thou clean."
Mark 1:42: "from him, and he was cleansed."
Mark 7:19: "into the draught, purging all meats?"
Luke 4:27: "and none of them was cleansed, saving Naaman the Syrian."
Luke 5:12: "Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean."
Luke 5:13: "him, saying, I will: be thou clean. And immediately the leprosy"
Luke 7:22: "the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised,"
Luke 11:39: "Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup"
Luke 17:14: "it came to pass, that, as they went, they were cleansed."
Luke 17:17: "said, Were there not ten cleansed? but where are the nine?"
Acts 10:15: "second time, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common."
Acts 11:9: "from heaven, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common."
Acts 15:9: "us and them, purifying their hearts by faith."
2 Corinthians 7:1: "these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness"
Ephesians 5:26: "That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by"
Titus 2:14: "all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous"
Hebrews 9:14: "himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead"
Hebrews 9:22: "are by the law purged with blood; and without"
Hebrews 9:23: "in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things"
James 4:8: "and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify"
1 John 1:7: "of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all"
1 John 1:9: "us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."