Strong's Concordance

Hebrew-Aramaic
H2891

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Original: טהר

Transliteration: taher (ṭâhêr)

Phonetic: taw-hare'

BDB Definition:

to be clean, be pure
1. (Qal)
  1. to be clean (physically - of disease)
  2. to be clean ceremonially
  3. to purify, be clean morally, made clean
2. (Piel)
  1. to cleanse, purify
    1. physically
    2. ceremonially
    3. morally
  2. to pronounce clean
  3. to perform the ceremony of cleansing
3. (Pual) to be cleansed, be pronounced clean
4. (Hithpael)
  1. to purify oneself
    1. ceremonially
    2. morally
  2. to present oneself for purification

Origin: a primitive root

TWOT entry: 792

Part(s) of speech: Verb

Strong's Definition: 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).

Occurrences in the (KJV) King James Version:

All Occurrences (94x)

And Be Clean (4x)

And Cleanse (3x)

And Cleansed (1x)

And Cleanseth (1x)

And He Shall Be Clean (1x)

And He Shall Purify (1x)

And He That Is To Be Cleansed (1x)

And He Was Clean (1x)

And I Shall Be Clean (1x)

And I Will Cleanse (1x)

And It Shall Be Clean (2x)

And Purifier (1x)

And Purify (1x)

And Shall Be Clean (2x)

And Shall Pronounce Him Clean (1x)

And They Cleansed (1x)

And Thou Shalt Cleanse (1x)

And Will Cleanse (1x)

And Ye Shall Be Clean (1x)

Be More Pure (1x)

Because I Have Purged (1x)

But If She Be Cleansed (1x)

Clean (4x)

Cleansed (1x)

For Her, And She Shall Be Clean (1x)

For Her; And She Shall Be Cleansed (1x)

For Him That Is To Be Cleansed (3x)

For Him, And He Shall Be Clean (1x)

For Them To Cleanse (1x)

For Us, From Which We Are Not Cleansed (1x)

For You, To Cleanse (1x)

He Shall Be Clean (2x)

He Shall Not Be Clean (1x)

I Am Pure (1x)

In Them, And Be Clean (1x)

Is Cleansed (1x)

Make Themselves Clean (1x)

Of Him That Is To Be Cleansed (6x)

Of Them, That They May Cleanse (1x)

Purified (1x)

Shall Pronounce Him Clean (5x)

So It Shall Be Cleansed (1x)

That He May Be Clean (1x)

That I Shall Have Cleansed (1x)

That Is Not Cleansed (1x)

That Is To Be Made Clean (1x)

That She Shall Be Clean (1x)

That They Should Cleanse (1x)

Thee, And Thou Wast Not Purged (1x)

Themselves, And Purified (1x)

Themselves, And Purify (1x)

Then Shall He Be Clean (1x)

Thou Shalt Not Be Purged (1x)

Thus Cleansed (1x)

Thus Shall They Cleanse (1x)

Time, And Shall Be Clean (1x)

To Cleanse (3x)

To Pronounce It Clean (1x)

To Purge (1x)

To Thee, And Thou Shalt Be Clean (1x)

Until He Be Clean (1x)

Unto Them, To Cleanse (1x)

Upon Him That Is To Be Cleansed (1x)

Upon You, And Ye Shall Be Clean (1x)

We Have Cleansed (1x)

Were Purified (1x)

When He Had Purged (1x)

Will I Cleanse (1x)

Wilt Thou Not Be Made Clean (1x)

Ye May Be Clean (1x)

All Occurrences

Leviticus 17:15

And every soul that eateth that which died of itself, or that which was torn with beasts, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger, he shall both wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even: then shall he be clean.(b)

Leviticus 22:4

What man soever of the seed of Aaron is a leper, or hath a running issue; he shall not eat of the holy things, until he be clean. And whoso toucheth any thing that is unclean by the dead, or a man whose seed goeth from him;(a)

Leviticus 22:7

And when the sun is down, he shall be clean, and shall afterward eat of the holy things; because it is his food.

Numbers 8:6

Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them.

Numbers 8:7

And thus shalt thou do unto them, to cleanse them: Sprinkle water of purifying upon them, and let them shave all their flesh, and let them wash their clothes, and so make themselves clean.(a)

Numbers 8:15

And after that shall the Levites go in to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation: and thou shalt cleanse them, and offer them for an offering.

Numbers 8:21

And the Levites were purified, and they washed their clothes; and Aaron offered them as an offering before the Lord ; and Aaron made an atonement for them to cleanse them.

Numbers 19:12

He shall purify himself with it on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean: but if he purify not himself the third day, then the seventh day he shall not be clean.

Numbers 19:19

And the clean person shall sprinkle upon the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day: and on the seventh day he shall purify himself, and wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at even.

Numbers 31:23

Every thing that may abide 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: and all that abideth not the fire ye shall make go through the water.

Numbers 31:24

And ye shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and ye shall be clean, and afterward ye shall come into the camp.

Joshua 22:17

Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we are not cleansed until this day, although there was a plague in the congregation of the Lord ,

2 Kings 5:10

And Elisha sent a messenger unto him, saying, Go and wash in Jordan seven times, and thy flesh shall come again to thee, and thou shalt be clean.

2 Kings 5:12

Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean? So he turned and went away in a rage.(k)

2 Kings 5:13

And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?

2 Kings 5:14

Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God: and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.

2 Chronicles 29:15

And they gathered their brethren, and sanctified themselves, and came, according to the commandment of the king, by the words of the Lord , to cleanse the house of the Lord .(e)

2 Chronicles 29:16

And the priests went into the inner part of the house of the Lord , to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the temple of the Lord into the court of the house of the Lord . And the Levites took it, to carry it out abroad into the brook Kidron.

2 Chronicles 29:18

Then they went in to Hezekiah the king, and said, We have cleansed all the house of the Lord , and the altar of burnt offering, with all the vessels thereof, and the shewbread table, with all the vessels thereof.

2 Chronicles 30:18

For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim, and Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet did they eat the passover otherwise than it was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, The good Lord pardon every one

2 Chronicles 34:3

For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images.

2 Chronicles 34:5

And he burnt the bones 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 Shaphan the son of Azaliah, and Maaseiah the governor of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz the recorder, to repair the house of the Lord his God.

Ezra 6:20

For the priests and the Levites were purified together, all of them were pure, and killed the passover for all the children of the captivity, and for their brethren the priests, and for themselves.

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, with the meat offering and the frankincense.

Nehemiah 13:22

And I commanded the Levites that they should cleanse themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the sabbath day. Remember me, O my God, concerning this also, and spare me according to the greatness of thy mercy.(o)

Nehemiah 13:30

Thus cleansed I them from all strangers, and appointed the wards of the priests and the Levites, every one in his business;

Job 4:17

Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?

Job 37:21

And now men see not the bright light which is in the clouds: but the wind passeth, and cleanseth them.

Psalm 51:2

Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.

Psalm 51:7

Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

Proverbs 20:9

Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?

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Brown-Driver-Brigg's Information

All of the original Hebrew and Aramaic words are arranged by the numbering system from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible. In some cases more than one form of the word — such as the masculine and feminine forms of a noun — may be listed.

Each entry is a Hebrew word, unless it is designated as Aramaic. Immediately after each word is given its equivalent in English letters, according to a system of transliteration. Then follows the phonetic. Next follows the Brown-Driver-Briggs' Definitions given in English.

Then ensues a reference to the same word as found in Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament (TWOT), by R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, Jr., and Bruce K. Waltke. This section makes an association between the unique number used by TWOT with the Strong's number.

Thayers Information

All of the original Greek words are arranged by the numbering system from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible. The Strong's numbering system arranges most Greek words by their alphabetical order. This renders reference easy without recourse to the Greek characters. In some cases more than one form of the word - such as the masculine, feminine, and neuter forms of a noun - may be listed.

Immediately after each word is given its exact equivalent in English letters, according to the system of transliteration laid down in the scheme here following. Then follows the phonetic. Next follows the Thayer's Definitions given in English.

Then ensues a reference to the same word as found in the ten-volume Theological Dictionary of the New Testament (TDNT), edited by Gerhard Kittel. Both volume and page numbers cite where the word may be found.

The presence of an asterisk indicates that the corresponding entry in the Theological Dictionary of the New Testament may appear in a different form than that displayed in Thayers' Greek Definitions.

Strong's Hebrew and Greek Dictionaries Information

Dictionaries of Hebrew and Greek Words taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance by James Strong, S.T.D., LL.D., 1890.

Strong's Concor­dance

Hebrew-Aramaic H2891

Brown-Driver-Brigg's Information

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Strong's Concordance

Hebrew-Aramaic
H2891