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Strong's #2135: zakah (pronounced zaw-kaw')

a primitive root (compare 2141); to be translucent; figuratively, to be innocent:--be (make) clean, cleanse, be clear, count pure.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

zâkâh

1) to be clean, be pure, be clear

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to be clean, be pure

1a2) to be clear, be justified

1b) (Piel)

1b1) to make clean, make pure, keep clean, keep pure

1c) (Hithpael)

1c1) to cleanse

1c2) to make yourself clean, purify oneself

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root [compare H2141]; to be translucent



Usage:

This word is used 8 times:

Job 15:14: "What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?"
Job 25:4: "God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?"
Psalms 51:4: "that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest."
Psalms 73:13: "Verily I have cleansed my heart and washed my hands in innocency."
Psalms 119:9: "Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word."
Proverbs 20:9: "Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?"
Isaiah 1:16: "Wash you, make you clean; put away of your doings from before mine eyes;"
Micah 6:11: " Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, of deceitful weights?"









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