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:
Numbers 19:12: "day, then the seventh day he shall not be clean."
Numbers 19:19: "his clothes, and bathe and shall be clean at even."
Numbers 31:23: "the fire, ye shall make it go through the fire, and it shall be clean: nevertheless it shall be purified with the water of separation:"
Numbers 31:24: "your clothes on the seventh day, and ye shall be clean, and afterward ye shall come into the camp."
Joshua 22:17: "for us, from which we are not cleansed until this day, although there was"
2 Kings 5:10: "times, and thy flesh shall come again to thee, and thou shalt be clean."
2 Kings 5:12: "the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean? So he turned and went away"
2 Kings 5:13: "then, when to thee, Wash, and be clean?"
2 Kings 5:14: "like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean."
2 Chronicles 29:15: "of the king, by the words of the LORD, to cleanse the house of the LORD."
2 Chronicles 29:16: "into the inner part of the house of the LORD, to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness"
2 Chronicles 29:18: "Hezekiah the king, and said, We have cleansed all the house of the LORD,"
2 Chronicles 30:18: "and Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet did they eat"
2 Chronicles 34:3: "and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem"
2 Chronicles 34:5: "of the priests upon their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem."
2 Chronicles 34:8: "Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purged the land, and the house, he sent"
Ezra 6:20: "For the priests and the Levites were purified together, all of them were pure, and killed"
Nehemiah 12:30: "And the priests and the Levites purified themselves, and purified the people, and the gates, and the wall."
Nehemiah 12:30: "And the priests and the Levites purified themselves, and purified the people, and the gates, and the wall."
Nehemiah 13:9: "Then I commanded, and they cleansed the chambers: and thither brought I again the vessels of the house of God,"
Nehemiah 13:22: "the Levites that they should cleanse themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify"
Nehemiah 13:30: " Thus cleansed I them from all strangers, and appointed the wards of the priests and the Levites,"
Job 4:17: "Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?"
Job 37:21: "is in the clouds: but the wind passeth, and cleanseth"
Psalms 51:2: "Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin."
Psalms 51:7: "Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow."
Proverbs 20:9: "can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?"
Isaiah 66:17: "They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating"
Jeremiah 13:27: "Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean? when"
Jeremiah 33:8: " And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they have sinned against me; and I will pardon all"
Ezekiel 22:24: "art the land that is not cleansed, nor rained upon in the day of indignation."
Ezekiel 24:13: "In thy filthiness is lewdness: because I have purged thee, and thou wast not purged, thou shalt not be purged"
Ezekiel 24:13: "because I have purged thee, and thou wast not purged, thou shalt not be purged from thy filthiness"
Ezekiel 24:13: "thee, and thou wast not purged, thou shalt not be purged from thy filthiness any more, till"
Ezekiel 36:25: "clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all"
Ezekiel 36:25: "from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse"
Ezekiel 36:33: "the Lord GOD; In the day that I shall have cleansed you from all your iniquities I will also cause you to dwell"
Ezekiel 37:23: "them out of all their dwelling places, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be and I"
Ezekiel 39:12: "of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land."
Ezekiel 39:14: "upon the face of the earth, to cleanse of seven months"
Ezekiel 39:16: "the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land."
Ezekiel 43:26: "shall they purge the altar and purify it; and they shall consecrate"
Malachi 3:3: "And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi,"
Malachi 3:3: "as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge"
