Strong's #2512: katharismos (pronounced kath-ar-is-mos')

from 2511; a washing off, i.e. (ceremonially) ablution, (morally) expiation:--cleansing, + purge, purification(-fying).

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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katharismos

1) a cleansing, purification, a ritual purgation or washing

1a) of the washing of the Jews before and after their meals

1b) of levitical purification of women after childbirth

1c) a cleansing from the guilt of sins wrought by the expiatory sacrifice of Christ

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from G2511

Citing in TDNT: 3:429, 381

Usage:

This word is used 7 times:

 

Mark 1:44: "offer for thy cleansing those things which Moses commanded, for"
Luke 2:22: "the days of her purification according to the law of Moses"
Luke 5:14: "offer for thy cleansing, according as Moses commanded, for"
John 2:6: "of stone, after the manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two"
John 3:25: "and the Jews about purifying."
Hebrews 1:3: "power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down"
2 Peter 1:9: "is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old"