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 to his household, and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves, change your garments.Leviticus 11:32 · וְטָהֵֽר׃On whatever any of them falls when they are dead, it shall be unclean; whether it is any vessel of wood, or clothing, or skin, or sack, whatever vessel it is, with which any work is done, it must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the evening; then it will be clean.Leviticus 12:7 · וְטָהֲרָ֖הand he shall offer it before Yahweh, and make atonement for her; and she shall be cleansed from the fountain of her blood. “‘This is the law for her who bears, whether a male or a female.Leviticus 12:8 · וְטָהֵֽרָה׃ פIf she cannot afford a lamb, then she shall take two turtledoves, or two young pigeons; the one for a burnt offering, and the other for a sin offering: and the priest shall make atonement for her, and she shall be clean.’”Leviticus 13:6 · וְטִהֲר֤וֹ · וְטָהֵֽר׃The priest shall examine him again on the seventh day; and behold, if the plague has faded, and the plague hasn’t spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean. It is a scab. He shall wash his clothes, and be clean.Leviticus 13:13 · וְטִהַ֖רthen the priest shall examine him; and, behold, if the leprosy has covered all his flesh, he shall pronounce him clean of the plague. It has all turned white: he is clean.Leviticus 13:17 · וְטִהַ֧רand the priest shall examine him; and, behold, if the plague has turned white, then the priest shall pronounce him clean of the plague. He is clean.Leviticus 13:23 · וְטִהֲר֖וֹBut if the bright spot stays in its place, and hasn’t spread, it is the scar from the boil; and the priest shall pronounce him clean.Leviticus 13:28 · וְטִֽהֲרוֹ֙If the bright spot stays in its place, and hasn’t spread in the skin, but is faded, it is the swelling from the burn, and the priest shall pronounce him clean; for it is the scar from the burn.Leviticus 13:34 · וְטִהַ֤ר · וְטָהֵֽר׃On the seventh day, the priest shall examine the itch; and behold, if the itch hasn’t spread in the skin, and its appearance isn’t deeper than the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean. He shall wash his clothes, and be clean.Leviticus 13:37 · וְטִהֲר֖וֹBut if in his eyes the itch is arrested, and black hair has grown in it; the itch is healed, he is clean. The priest shall pronounce him clean.Leviticus 13:58 · וְטָהֵֽר׃The garment, either the warp, or the woof, or whatever thing of skin it is, which you shall wash, if the plague has departed from them, then it shall be washed the second time, and it will be clean.”Leviticus 13:59 · לְטַהֲר֖וֹThis is the law of the plague of mildew in a garment of wool or linen, either in the warp, or the woof, or in anything of skin, to pronounce it clean, or to pronounce it unclean.Leviticus 14:4 · לַמִּטַּהֵ֛רthen the priest shall command them to take for him who is to be cleansed two living clean birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop.Leviticus 14:7 · הַמִּטַּהֵ֛ר · וְטִ֣הֲר֔וֹHe shall sprinkle on him who is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the living bird go into the open field.Leviticus 14:8 · הַמִּטַּהֵ֨ר · וְטָהֵ֔ר“He who is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair, and bathe himself in water; and he shall be clean. After that he shall come into the camp, but shall dwell outside his tent seven days.Leviticus 14:9 · וְטָהֵֽר׃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. He shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his body in water, then he shall be clean.Leviticus 14:11 · הַֽמְטַהֵ֗ר · הַמִּטַּהֵ֖רThe priest who cleanses him shall set the man who is to be cleansed, and those things, before Yahweh, at the door of the Tent of Meeting.Leviticus 14:14 · הַמִּטַּהֵ֖רThe priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and the priest shall put it on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.Leviticus 14:17 · הַמִּטַּהֵר֙The priest shall put some of the rest of the oil that is in his hand on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, upon the blood of the trespass offering.Leviticus 14:18 · הַמִּטַּהֵ֑רThe rest of the oil that is in the priest’s hand he shall put on the head of him who is to be cleansed, and the priest shall make atonement for him before Yahweh.Leviticus 14:19 · הַמִּטַּהֵ֖ר“The priest shall offer the sin offering, and make atonement for him who is to be cleansed because of his uncleanness: and afterward he shall kill the burnt offering;Leviticus 14:20 · וְטָהֵֽר׃ סand the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the meal offering on the altar. The priest shall make atonement for him, and he shall be clean.Leviticus 14:25 · הַמִּטַּהֵ֖רHe shall kill the lamb of the trespass offering. The priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering and put it on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.Leviticus 14:28 · הַמִּטַּהֵר֙Then the priest shall put some of the oil that is in his hand on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, on the place of the blood of the trespass offering.Leviticus 14:29 · הַמִּטַּהֵ֑רThe rest of the oil that is in the priest’s hand he shall put on the head of him who is to be cleansed, to make atonement for him before Yahweh.Leviticus 14:31 · הַמִּטַּהֵ֖רeven such as he is able to afford, the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, with the meal offering. The priest shall make atonement for him who is to be cleansed before Yahweh.”Leviticus 14:48 · וְטִהַ֤ר“If the priest shall come in, and examine it, and behold, the plague hasn’t spread in the house, after the house was plastered, then the priest shall pronounce the house clean, because the plague is healed.Leviticus 14:53 · וְטָהֵֽר׃but he shall let the living bird go out of the city into the open field. So shall he make atonement for the house; and it shall be clean.”Leviticus 15:13 · יִטְהַ֤ר · וְטָהֵֽר׃“‘When he who has a discharge is cleansed of his discharge, then he shall count to himself seven days for his cleansing, and wash his clothes; and he shall bathe his flesh in running water, and shall be clean.Leviticus 15:28 · טָהֲרָ֖ה · תִּטְהָֽר׃“‘But if she is cleansed of her discharge, then she shall count to herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean.Leviticus 16:19 · וְטִהֲר֣וֹHe shall sprinkle some of the blood on it with his finger seven times, and cleanse it, and make it holy from the uncleanness of the children of Israel.Leviticus 16:30 · לְטַהֵ֣ר · תִּטְהָֽרוּ׃for on this day shall atonement be made for you, to cleanse you; from all your sins you shall be clean before Yahweh.Leviticus 17:15 · וְטָהֵֽר׃“‘Every person that eats what dies of itself, or that which is torn by animals, whether he is native-born or a foreigner, he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening: then he shall be clean.Leviticus 22:4 · יִטְהָ֑ר“‘Whoever of the seed of Aaron is a leper or has an issue; he shall not eat of the holy things, until he is clean. Whoever touches anything that is unclean by the dead, or a man whose seed goes from him;Leviticus 22:7 · וְטָהֵ֑רWhen the sun is down, he shall be clean; and afterward he shall eat of the holy things, because it is his bread.Numbers 8:6 · וְטִהַרְתָּ֖“Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them.Numbers 8:7 · לְטַֽהֲרָ֔ם · וְהִטֶּהָֽרוּ׃You shall do this to them, to cleanse them: sprinkle the water of cleansing on them, let them shave their whole bodies with a razor, and let them wash their clothes, and cleanse themselves.Numbers 8:15 · וְטִֽהַרְתָּ֣“After that, the Levites shall go in to do the service of the Tent of Meeting: and you shall cleanse them, and offer them as a wave offering.Numbers 8:21 · לְטַהֲרָֽם׃The Levites purified themselves from sin, and they washed their clothes; and Aaron offered them for a wave offering before Yahweh; and Aaron made atonement for them to cleanse them.Numbers 19:12 · יִטְהָ֑ר · יִטְהָֽר׃the same shall purify himself with water on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean: but if he doesn’t purify himself the third day, then the seventh day he shall not be clean.Numbers 19:19 · וְטָהֵ֥רand the clean person shall sprinkle on the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day: and on the seventh day he shall purify him; and he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at evening.Numbers 31:23 · וְטָהֵ֔רeverything that may withstand the fire, you shall make to go through the fire, and it shall be clean; nevertheless it shall be purified with the water for impurity: and all that doesn’t withstand the fire you shall make to go through the water.Numbers 31:24 · וּטְהַרְתֶּ֑םYou shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you shall be clean; and afterward you shall come into the camp.”Joshua 22:17 · הִטַּהַ֙רְנוּ֙Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we have not cleansed ourselves to this day, although there came a plague on the congregation of Yahweh,2 Kings 5:10 · וּטְהָֽר׃Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, “Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall come again to you, and you shall be clean.”2 Kings 5:12 · וְטָהָ֑רְתִּיAren’t Abanah and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Couldn’t I wash in them, and be clean?” So he turned and went away in a rage.2 Kings 5:13 · וּטְהָֽר׃His servants came near, and spoke to him, and said, “My father, if the prophet had asked you do some great thing, wouldn’t you have done it? How much rather then, when he says to you, ‘Wash, and be clean?’”2 Kings 5:14 · וַיִּטְהָֽר׃Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God; and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.2 Chronicles 29:15 · לְטַהֵ֖רThey gathered their brothers, and sanctified themselves, and went in, according to the commandment of the king by the words of Yahweh, to cleanse the house of Yahweh.2 Chronicles 29:16 · לְטַהֵר֒The priests went in to the inner part of the house of Yahweh, to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the temple of Yahweh into the court of the house of Yahweh. The Levites took it, to carry it out abroad to the brook Kidron.2 Chronicles 29:18 · טִהַ֖רְנוּThen they went in to Hezekiah the king within the palace, and said, “We have cleansed all the house of Yahweh, and the altar of burnt offering, with all its vessels, and the table of show bread, with all its vessels.2 Chronicles 30:18 · הִטֶּהָ֔רוּFor a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim and Manasseh, Issachar and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet they ate the Passover otherwise than it is written. For Hezekiah had prayed for them, saying, “May the good Yahweh pardon everyone2 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 Asherim, and the engraved images, and the molten images.2 Chronicles 34:5 · וַיְטַהֵ֥רHe burnt the bones of the priests on their altars, and purged 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 Yahweh his God.Ezra 6:20 · הִֽטַּהֲר֞וּFor the priests and the Levites had purified themselves together; all of them were pure: and they killed the Passover for all the children of the captivity, and for their brothers the priests, and for themselves.Nehemiah 12:30 · וַיִּֽטַּהֲר֔וּ · וַֽיְטַהֲרוּ֙The priests and the Levites purified themselves; and they purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.Nehemiah 13:9 · וַֽיְטַהֲר֖וּThen I commanded, and they cleansed the rooms: and there brought I again the vessels of the house of God, with the meal offerings and the frankincense.Nehemiah 13:22 · מִֽטַּהֲרִים֙I commanded the Levites that they should purify themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the Sabbath day. Remember to me, my God, this also, and spare me according to the greatness of your loving kindness.Nehemiah 13:30 · וְטִֽהַרְתִּ֖יםThus I cleansed them from all foreigners, and appointed duties for the priests and for the Levites, everyone in his work;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׃Now men don’t see the light which is bright in the skies, but the wind passes, and clears them.Psalm 51:2 · טַהֲרֵֽנִי׃Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity. Cleanse me from my sin.Psalm 51:7 · וְאֶטְהָ֑רPurify me with hyssop, and I will be clean. Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.Proverbs 20:9 · טָ֝הַ֗רְתִּיWho can say, “I have made my heart pure. I am clean and without sin?”Isaiah 66:17 · וְהַמִּֽטַּהֲרִ֜ים“Those who sanctify themselves and purify themselves to go to the gardens, behind one in the midst, eating pig’s flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, they shall come to an end together,” says Yahweh.Jeremiah 13:27 · תִטְהֲרִ֔יI have seen your abominations, even your adulteries, and your neighing, the lewdness of your prostitution, on the hills in the field. Woe to you, Jerusalem! You will not be made clean; how long shall it yet be?Jeremiah 33:8 · וְטִ֣הַרְתִּ֔יםI will cleanse them from all their iniquity, by which they have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, by which they have sinned against me, and by which they have transgressed against me.Malachi 3:3 · וּמְטַהֵר֙ · וְטִהַ֤רand he will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi, and refine them as gold and silver; and they shall offer to Yahweh offerings in righteousness.