Exodus 29:36
And thou shalt offer every day a bullock for a sin offering for atonement: and thou shalt cleanse the altar, when thou hast made an atonement for it, and thou shalt anoint it, to sanctify it.
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Cleanse
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1 John 1:9
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
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9 occurrences in 8 verses.
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טָהֵר
ṭâhêr · taw-hare'
16 times translated as this KJV form94 total Strong's occurrences
to be pure (physical sound, clear, unadulterated; Levitically, uncontaminated; morally, innocent or holy)
Strong's KJV usage: be (make, make self, pronounce) clean, cleanse (self), purge, purify(-ier, self).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Leviticus 16:19Strong's last: Ezekiel 39:16
Open full H2891 profile →חָטָא
châṭâʼ · khaw-taw'
7 times translated as this KJV form238 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to miss; hence (figuratively and generally) to sin; by inference, to forfeit, lack, expiate, repent, (causatively) lead astray, condemn
Strong's KJV usage: bear the blame, cleanse, commit (sin), by fault, harm he hath done, loss, miss, (make) offend(-er), offer for sin, purge, purify (self), make reconciliation, (cause, make) sin(-ful, -ness), trespass.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Exodus 29:36Strong's last: Ezekiel 45:18
Open full H2398 profile →καθαρίζω
katharízō · kath-ar-id'-zo
5 times translated as this KJV form36 total Strong's occurrences
to cleanse (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--(make) clean(-se), purge, purify.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 10:8Strong's last: 1 John 1:9
Open full G2511 profile →נָקָה
nâqâh · naw-kaw'
2 times translated as this KJV form44 total Strong's occurrences
to be (or make) clean (literally or figuratively); by implication (in an adverse sense) to be bare, i.e. extirpated
Strong's KJV usage: acquit × at all, × altogether, be blameless, cleanse, (be) clear(-ing), cut off, be desolate, be free, be (hold) guiltless, be (hold) innocent, × by no means, be quit, be (leave) unpunished, × utterly, × wholly.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Psalms 19:12Strong's last: Joel 3:21
Open full H5352 profile →בָּרַר
bârar · baw-rar'
1 times translated as this KJV form18 total Strong's occurrences
to clarify (i.e. brighten), examine, select
Strong's KJV usage: make bright, choice, chosen, cleanse (be clean), clearly, polished, (shew self) pure(-ify), purge (out).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Jeremiah 4:11Strong's last: Jeremiah 4:11
Open full H1305 profile →זָכָה
zâkâh · zaw-kaw'
1 times translated as this KJV form8 total Strong's occurrences
to be translucent; figuratively, to be innocent
Strong's KJV usage: be (make) clean, cleanse, be clear, count pure.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Psalms 119:9Strong's last: Psalms 119:9
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H2891
Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
H2891
Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.
H2891
And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.
H2891
And they shall sever out men of continual employment, passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.
H2891
And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.
H2398
And thou shalt take of the blood thereof, and put it on the four horns of it, and on the four corners of the settle, and upon the border round about: thus shalt thou cleanse and purge it.
H2398
And on the second day thou shalt offer a kid of the goats without blemish for a sin offering; and they shall cleanse the altar, as they did cleanse it with the bullock.
H2398
And on the second day thou shalt offer a kid of the goats without blemish for a sin offering; and they shall cleanse the altar, as they did cleanse it with the bullock.
H2398
Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the first month, in the first day of the month, thou shalt take a young bullock without blemish, and cleanse the sanctuary:
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cleanse
CLEANSE, verb transitive
1. To purify; to make clean; to remove filth, or foul matter of any kind, or by any process whateve, as by washing, rubbing, scouring, scraping, purging, ventilation, etc.; as, to cleanse the hands or face to cleanse a garment; to cleanse the bowels; to cleanse a ship; to cleanse an infected house.
2. To free from a foul or infectious disease; to heal. Leviticus 14:4, 8; Mark 1:42.
3. To free from ceremonial pollution, and consecrate to a holy use. Numbers 8:15; Exek. 43:20.
4. To purify from guilt. 1 John 1:7.
5. To remove; as, to cleanse a crime.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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