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
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H2891 — טָהֵר
ta.her · be pure · Hebrew/Aramaic
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Genesis 35:2 · וְהִֽטַּהֲר֔וּThen Jacob said unto his household, and to all that [were] with him, Put away the strange gods that [are] among you, and be clean, and change your garments:Leviticus 11:32 · וְטָהֵֽר׃And upon whatsoever [any] of them, when they are dead, doth fall, it shall be unclean; whether [it be] any vessel of wood, or raiment, or skin, or sack, whatsoever vessel [it be], wherein [any] work is done, it must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the even; so it shall be cleansed.Leviticus 12:7 · וְטָהֲרָ֖הWho shall offer it before the LORD, and make an atonement for her; and she shall be cleansed from the issue of her blood. This [is] the law for her that hath born a male or a female.Leviticus 12:8 · וְטָהֵֽרָה׃ פAnd if she be not able to bring a lamb, then she shall bring two turtles, or two young pigeons; the one for the burnt offering, and the other for a sin offering: and the priest shall make an atonement for her, and she shall be clean.Leviticus 13:6 · וְטִהֲר֤וֹ · וְטָהֵֽר׃And the priest shall look on him again the seventh day: and, behold, [if] the plague [be] somewhat dark, [and] the plague spread not in the skin, the priest shall pronounce him clean: it [is but] a scab: and he shall wash his clothes, and be clean.Leviticus 13:13 · וְטִהַ֖רThen the priest shall consider: and, behold, [if] the leprosy have covered all his flesh, he shall pronounce [him] clean [that hath] the plague: it is all turned white: he [is] clean.Leviticus 13:17 · וְטִהַ֧רAnd the priest shall see him: and, behold, [if] the plague be turned into white; then the priest shall pronounce [him] clean [that hath] the plague: he [is] clean.Leviticus 13:23 · וְטִהֲר֖וֹBut if the bright spot stay in his place, [and] spread not, it [is] a burning boil; and the priest shall pronounce him clean.Leviticus 13:28 · וְטִֽהֲרוֹ֙And if the bright spot stay in his place, [and] spread not in the skin, but it [be] somewhat dark; it [is] a rising of the burning, and the priest shall pronounce him clean: for it [is] an inflammation of the burning.Leviticus 13:34 · וְטִהַ֤ר · וְטָהֵֽר׃And in the seventh day the priest shall look on the scall: and, behold, [if] the scall be not spread in the skin, nor [be] in sight deeper than the skin; then the priest shall pronounce him clean: and he shall wash his clothes, and be clean.Leviticus 13:37 · וְטִהֲר֖וֹBut if the scall be in his sight at a stay, and [that] there is black hair grown up therein; the scall is healed, he [is] clean: and the priest shall pronounce him clean.Leviticus 13:58 · וְטָהֵֽר׃And the garment, either warp, or woof, or whatsoever thing of skin [it be], which thou shalt wash, if the plague be departed from them, then it shall be washed the second time, and shall be clean.Leviticus 13:59 · לְטַהֲר֖וֹThis [is] the law of the plague of leprosy in a garment of woollen or linen, either in the warp, or woof, or any thing of skins, to pronounce it clean, or to pronounce it unclean.Leviticus 14:4 · לַמִּטַּהֵ֛רThen shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two birds alive [and] clean, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:Leviticus 14:7 · הַמִּטַּהֵ֛ר · וְטִ֣הֲר֔וֹAnd he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the living bird loose into the open field.Leviticus 14:8 · הַמִּטַּהֵ֨ר · וְטָהֵ֔רAnd he that is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair, and wash himself in water, that he may be clean: and after that he shall come into the camp, and shall tarry abroad out of his tent seven days.Leviticus 14:9 · וְטָהֵֽר׃But it shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shall shave off: and he shall wash his clothes, also he shall wash his flesh in water, and he shall be clean.Leviticus 14:11 · הַֽמְטַהֵ֗ר · הַמִּטַּהֵ֖רAnd the priest that maketh [him] clean shall present the man that is to be made clean, and those things, before the LORD, [at] the door of the tabernacle of the congregation:Leviticus 14:14 · הַמִּטַּהֵ֖רAnd the priest shall take [some] of the blood of the trespass offering, and the priest shall put [it] upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot:Leviticus 14:17 · הַמִּטַּהֵר֙And of the rest of the oil that [is] in his hand shall the priest put upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot, upon the blood of the trespass offering:Leviticus 14:18 · הַמִּטַּהֵ֑רAnd the remnant of the oil that [is] in the priest’s hand he shall pour upon the head of him that is to be cleansed: and the priest shall make an atonement for him before the LORD.Leviticus 14:19 · הַמִּטַּהֵ֖רAnd the priest shall offer the sin offering, and make an atonement for him that is to be cleansed from his uncleanness; and afterward he shall kill the burnt offering:Leviticus 14:20 · וְטָהֵֽר׃ סAnd the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the meat offering upon the altar: and the priest shall make an atonement for him, and he shall be clean.Leviticus 14:25 · הַמִּטַּהֵ֖רAnd he shall kill the lamb of the trespass offering, and the priest shall take [some] of the blood of the trespass offering, and put [it] upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot:Leviticus 14:28 · הַמִּטַּהֵר֙And the priest shall put of the oil that [is] in his hand upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot, upon the place of the blood of the trespass offering:Leviticus 14:29 · הַמִּטַּהֵ֑רAnd the rest of the oil that [is] in the priest’s hand he shall put upon the head of him that is to be cleansed, to make an atonement for him before the LORD.Leviticus 14:31 · הַמִּטַּהֵ֖ר[Even] such as he is able to get, the one [for] a sin offering, and the other [for] a burnt offering, with the meat offering: and the priest shall make an atonement for him that is to be cleansed before the LORD.Leviticus 14:48 · וְטִהַ֤רAnd if the priest shall come in, and look [upon it], and, behold, the plague hath not spread in the house, after the house was plaistered: then the priest shall pronounce the house clean, because the plague is healed.Leviticus 14:53 · וְטָהֵֽר׃But he shall let go the living bird out of the city into the open fields, and make an atonement for the house: and it shall be clean.Leviticus 15:13 · יִטְהַ֤ר · וְטָהֵֽר׃And when he that hath an issue is cleansed of his issue; then he shall number to himself seven days for his cleansing, and wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in running water, and shall be clean.Leviticus 15:28 · טָהֲרָ֖ה · תִּטְהָֽר׃But if she be cleansed of her issue, then she shall number to herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean.Leviticus 16:19 · וְטִהֲר֣וֹAnd he shall sprinkle of the blood upon it with his finger seven times, and cleanse it, and hallow it from the uncleanness of the children of Israel.Leviticus 16:30 · לְטַהֵ֣ר · תִּטְהָֽרוּ׃For on that day shall [the priest] make an atonement for you, to cleanse you, [that] ye may be clean from all your sins before the LORD.Leviticus 17:15 · וְטָהֵֽר׃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.Leviticus 22:4 · יִטְהָ֑רWhat 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;Leviticus 22:7 · וְטָהֵ֑רAnd 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 · וְטִהַרְתָּ֖Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them.Numbers 8:7 · לְטַֽהֲרָ֔ם · וְהִטֶּהָֽרוּ׃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.Numbers 8:15 · וְטִֽהַרְתָּ֣And 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 · לְטַהֲרָֽם׃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 · יִטְהָ֑ר · יִטְהָֽר׃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 · וְטָהֵ֥רAnd 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 · וְטָהֵ֔רEvery 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 · וּטְהַרְתֶּ֑םAnd 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 · הִטַּהַ֙רְנוּ֙[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 · וּטְהָֽר׃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 · וְטָהָ֑רְתִּי[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.2 Kings 5:13 · וּטְהָֽר׃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 · וַיִּטְהָֽר׃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 · לְטַהֵ֖רAnd 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.2 Chronicles 29:16 · לְטַהֵר֒And 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 · טִהַ֖רְנוּThen 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 · הִטֶּהָ֔רוּFor 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 one2 Chronicles 34:3 · לְטַהֵ֔רFor 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 · וַיְטַהֵ֥רAnd he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.2 Chronicles 34:8 · לְטַהֵ֥רNow 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 · הִֽטַּהֲר֞וּFor 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 · וַיִּֽטַּהֲר֔וּ · וַֽיְטַהֲרוּ֙And the priests and the Levites purified themselves, and purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.Nehemiah 13:9 · וַֽיְטַהֲר֖וּThen 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 · מִֽטַּהֲרִים֙And 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.Nehemiah 13:30 · וְטִֽהַרְתִּ֖יםThus cleansed I them from all strangers, and appointed the wards of the priests and the Levites, every one in his business;Job 4:17 · יִטְהַר־Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?Job 37:21 · וַֽתְּטַהֲרֵֽם׃And now [men] see not the bright light which [is] in the clouds: but the wind passeth, and cleanseth them.Psalm 51:2 · טַהֲרֵֽנִי׃Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.Psalm 51:7 · וְאֶטְהָ֑רPurge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.Proverbs 20:9 · טָ֝הַ֗רְתִּיWho can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?Isaiah 66:17 · וְהַמִּֽטַּהֲרִ֜יםThey that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one [tree] in the midst, eating swine’s flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD.Jeremiah 13:27 · תִטְהֲרִ֔יI have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, [and] thine abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean? when [shall it] once [be]?Jeremiah 33:8 · וְטִ֣הַרְתִּ֔יםAnd I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, whereby they have sinned, and whereby they have transgressed against me.Malachi 3:3 · וּמְטַהֵר֙ · וְטִהַ֤רAnd he shall sit [as] a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness.