Strong's #2891: taher (pronounced taw-hare')
a primitive root; properly, to be bright; i.e. (by implication) to be pure (physical sound, clear, unadulterated; Levitically, uncontaminated; morally, innocent or holy):--be (make, make self, pronounce) clean, cleanse (self), purge, purify(-ier, self).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
ṭâhêr
1) to be clean, be pure
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to be clean (physically - of disease)
1a2) to be clean ceremonially
1a3) to purify, be clean morally, made clean
1b) (Piel)
1b1) to cleanse, purify
1b1a) physically
1b1b) ceremonially
1b1c) morally
1b2) to pronounce clean
1b3) to perform the ceremony of cleansing
1c) (Pual) to be cleansed, be pronounced clean
1d) (Hithpael)
1d1) to purify oneself
1d1a) ceremonially
1d1b) morally
1d2) to present oneself for purification
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Usage:
This word is used 94 times:
Genesis 35:2: "gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments:"
Leviticus 11:32: "it must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the even; so it shall be cleansed."
Leviticus 12:7: "the LORD, and make an atonement for her; and she shall be cleansed from the issue of her blood. This"
Leviticus 12:8: "and the other and the priest shall make an atonement for her, and she shall be clean."
Leviticus 13:6: "not in the skin, the priest shall pronounce him clean: is but a scab: and he shall wash his clothes,"
Leviticus 13:6: "is but a scab: and he shall wash his clothes, and be clean."
Leviticus 13:13: "all his flesh, he shall pronounce him clean that hath the plague: it is all turned"
Leviticus 13:17: "be turned into white; then the priest shall pronounce him clean that hath the plague: he is clean."
Leviticus 13:23: "is a burning boil; and the priest shall pronounce him clean."
Leviticus 13:28: "is a rising of the burning, and the priest shall pronounce him clean: it is an inflammation of the burning."
Leviticus 13:34: "the skin; then the priest shall pronounce him clean: and he shall wash his clothes, and be clean."
Leviticus 13:34: "shall pronounce him clean: and he shall wash his clothes, and be clean."
Leviticus 13:37: "he is clean: and the priest shall pronounce him clean."
Leviticus 13:58: "from the second time, and shall be clean."
Leviticus 13:59: "any of skins, to pronounce it clean, or to pronounce it unclean."
Leviticus 14:4: "Then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two birds alive and clean,"
Leviticus 14:7: "And he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean,"
Leviticus 14:7: "the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the living bird loose"
Leviticus 14:8: " And he that is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair,"
Leviticus 14:8: "his hair, and wash himself in water, that he may be clean: and after that he shall come into"
Leviticus 14:9: "and he shall wash his clothes, his flesh in water, and he shall be clean."
Leviticus 14:11: "And the priest that maketh him clean shall present the man that is to be made clean, and those things, before the LORD,"
Leviticus 14:11: "shall present the man that is to be made clean, and those things, before the LORD, at the door of the tabernacle"
Leviticus 14:14: "it upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right"
Leviticus 14:17: "upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb"
Leviticus 14:18: "he shall pour upon the head of him that is to be cleansed: and the priest shall make an atonement for him before"
Leviticus 14:19: "the sin offering, and make an atonement for him that is to be cleansed from his uncleanness; and afterward he shall kill"
Leviticus 14:20: "and the priest shall make an atonement for him, and he shall be clean."
Leviticus 14:25: "it upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, the thumb of his right"
Leviticus 14:28: "the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb hand,"
Leviticus 14:29: "he shall put upon the head of him that is to be cleansed, to make an atonement for him before"
Leviticus 14:31: "the meat offering: and the priest shall make an atonement for him that is to be cleansed the LORD."
Leviticus 14:48: "the house was plastered: then the priest shall pronounce the house clean, because"
Leviticus 14:53: "the open fields, and make an atonement for the house: and it shall be clean."
Leviticus 15:13: "And when he that hath an issue is cleansed of his issue; then he shall number to himself seven days"
Leviticus 15:13: "and bathe his flesh in running water, and shall be clean."
Leviticus 15:28: "But if she be cleansed of her issue, then she shall number to herself seven days, and after that"
Leviticus 15:28: "then she shall number to herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean."
Leviticus 16:19: "it with his finger seven times, and cleanse it, and hallow it from the uncleanness of the children"
Leviticus 16:30: "day shall the priest make an atonement for you, to cleanse you, that ye may be clean from all your sins"
Leviticus 16:30: "shall the priest make an atonement for you, to cleanse you, that ye may be clean from all your sins before"
Leviticus 17:15: "and be unclean until then shall he be clean."
Leviticus 22:4: "hath a running issue; he shall not eat of the holy things, until he be clean. And whoso toucheth"
Leviticus 22:7: "And when the sun is down, he shall be clean, and shall afterward eat of the holy things; because"
Numbers 8:6: "from among the children of Israel, and cleanse"
Numbers 8:7: "And thus shalt thou do unto them, to cleanse them: Sprinkle water of purifying upon them, and let them shave"
Numbers 8:7: "them, and let them shave all their flesh, and let them wash their clothes, and so make themselves clean."
Numbers 8:15: "of the tabernacle of the congregation: and thou shalt cleanse them, and offer them for an offering."
Numbers 8:21: "and Aaron made an atonement for them to cleanse"
Numbers 19:12: "day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean: but if he purify not himself the third"
