Strong's #2513: katharos (pronounced kath-ar-os')

of uncertain affinity; clean (literally or figuratively):--clean, clear, pure.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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katharos

1) clean, pure

1a) physically

1a1) purified by fire

1a2) in a similitude, like a vine cleansed by pruning and so fitted to bear fruit

1b) in a levitical sense

1b1) clean, the use of which is not forbidden, imparts no uncleanness

1c) ethically

1c1) free from corrupt desire, from sin and guilt

1c2) free from every admixture of what is false, sincere genuine

1c3) blameless, innocent

1c4) unstained with the guilt of anything

Part of Speech: adjective

Relation: of uncertain affinity

Citing in TDNT: 3:413, 381

Usage:

This word is used 28 times:

 

Matthew 5:8: "Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God."
Matthew 23:26: "outside of them may be clean also."
Matthew 27:59: "body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth,"
Luke 11:41: "behold, all things are clean unto you."
John 13:10: "to wash his feet, but is clean every whit: and ye"
John 13:10: "every whit: and ye are clean, but not all."
John 13:11: "said he, Ye are not all clean."
John 15:3: "Now ye are clean through the word which"
Acts 18:6: "your own heads; I am clean: from henceforth I will go unto"
Acts 20:26: "this day, that I am pure from the blood"
Romans 14:20: "of God. All things indeed are pure; but it is evil for that man who eateth"
1 Timothy 1:5: "is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience,"
1 Timothy 3:9: "of the faith in a pure conscience."
2 Timothy 1:3: "I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing"
2 Timothy 2:22: "the Lord out of a pure heart."
Titus 1:15: "Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled"
Titus 1:15: "pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and"
Titus 1:15: "and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind"
Hebrews 10:22: "and our bodies washed with pure water."
James 1:27: " Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father"
1 Peter 1:22: "see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:"
Revelation 15:6: "seven plagues, clothed in pure and white linen, and"
Revelation 19:8: "that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the"
Revelation 19:14: "fine linen, white and clean."
Revelation 21:18: "and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass."
Revelation 21:18: "was pure gold, like unto clear glass."
Revelation 21:21: "and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were"
Revelation 22:1: "And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear"