- Original: טהר
- Transliteration: Taher
- Phonetic: taw-hare'
- Definition:
1. to be clean, be pure
a. (Qal)
1. to be clean (physically - of disease)
2. to be clean ceremonially
3. to purify, be clean morally, made clean
b. (Piel)
1. to cleanse, purify 1b
c. physically 1b
d. ceremonially 1b
e. morally
1. to pronounce clean
2. to perform the ceremony of cleansing
f. (Pual) to be cleansed, be pronounced clean
g. (Hithpael)
1. to purify oneself 1d
h. ceremonially 1d
i. morally
1. to present oneself for purification
- Origin: a primitive root
- TWOT entry: 792
- Part(s) of speech: Verb
- Strong's: A primitive root; properly to be bright; that is (by implication) to be pure (physically sound clear unadulterated; Levitically uncontaminated; morally innocent or holy): - be (make make self pronounce) clean cleanse (self) purge purify (-ier self).
Total KJV Occurrences: 94
• clean, 40
Genesis 35:2;
Leviticus 12:8;
Leviticus 13:6(2);
Leviticus 13:13;
Leviticus 13:17;
Leviticus 13:23;
Leviticus 13:28;
Leviticus 13:34(2);
Leviticus 13:37;
Leviticus 13:58;
Leviticus 13:59;
Leviticus 14:7;
Leviticus 14:8;
Leviticus 14:9;
Leviticus 14:11(2);
Leviticus 14:20;
Leviticus 14:48;
Leviticus 14:53;
Leviticus 15:13;
Leviticus 15:28;
Leviticus 16:30;
Leviticus 17:15;
Leviticus 22:4;
Leviticus 22:7;
Numbers 8:7;
Numbers 19:12(2);
Numbers 19:19;
Numbers 31:23;
Numbers 31:24;
2 Kings 5:10;
2 Kings 5:12;
2 Kings 5:13;
2 Kings 5:14;
Psalm 51:7;
Jeremiah 13:27;
Ezekiel 36:25
• cleanse, 15
Leviticus 16:19;
Leviticus 16:30;
Numbers 8:6;
Numbers 8:7;
Numbers 8:15;
Numbers 8:21;
2 Chronicles 29:15;
2 Chronicles 29:16;
Psalm 51:2;
Jeremiah 33:8;
Ezekiel 36:25;
Ezekiel 37:23;
Ezekiel 39:12;
Ezekiel 39:14;
Ezekiel 39:16
• cleansed, 22
Leviticus 11:32;
Leviticus 12:7;
Leviticus 14:4;
Leviticus 14:7;
Leviticus 14:8;
Leviticus 14:14;
Leviticus 14:17;
Leviticus 14:18;
Leviticus 14:19;
Leviticus 14:25;
Leviticus 14:28;
Leviticus 14:29;
Leviticus 14:31;
Leviticus 15:13;
Leviticus 15:28;
Joshua 22:17;
2 Chronicles 29:18;
2 Chronicles 34:5;
Nehemiah 13:9;
Nehemiah 13:30;
Ezekiel 22:24;
Ezekiel 36:33
• cleanseth, 1
Job 37:21
• pure, 2
Job 4:17;
Proverbs 20:9
• purge, 1
2 Chronicles 34:3
• purged, 4
2 Chronicles 34:8;
Ezekiel 24:13(3)
• purified, 2
Ezra 6:20;
Nehemiah 12:30
• purifier, 1
Malachi 3:3
• purify, 2
Ezekiel 43:26;
Malachi 3:3
• themselves, 4
2 Chronicles 30:18;
Nehemiah 12:30;
Nehemiah 13:22;
Isaiah 66:17
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