Strong's #48: hagnizo (pronounced hag-nid'-zo)

from 53; to make clean, i.e. (figuratively) sanctify (ceremonially or morally):--purify (self).

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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hagnizō

1) ceremonially

1a) to make pure, purify, cleanse

2) morally

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: from G53

Citing in TDNT: 1:123, 19

Usage:

This word is used 7 times:

 

John 11:55: "to Jerusalem before the passover, to purify themselves."
Acts 21:24: "Them take, and purify thyself with them, and be at charges with"
Acts 21:26: "and the next day purifying himself with them entered into"
Acts 24:18: "from Asia found me purified in the temple,"
James 4:8: "your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded."
1 Peter 1:22: " Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through"
1 John 3:3: "hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is"