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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.
Read in context →How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
Read in context →3 occurrences in 3 verses.
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diakatharízō · dee-ak-ath-ar-id'-zo
to cleanse perfectly, i.e. (specially) winnow
Strong's KJV usage: :--thoroughly purge.
Strong's first: Matthew 3:12Strong's last: Luke 3:17
Open full G1245 profile →kâphar · kaw-far'
to cover (specifically with bitumen); figuratively, to expiate or condone, to placate or cancel
Strong's KJV usage: appease, make (an atonement, cleanse, disannul, forgive, be merciful, pacify, pardon, purge (away), put off, (make) reconcile(-liation).
Strong's first: Ezekiel 43:20Strong's last: Ezekiel 43:26
Open full H3722 profile →ekkathaírō · ek-kath-ah'-ee-ro
to cleanse thoroughly
Strong's KJV usage: :--purge (out).
Strong's first: 2 Timothy 2:21Strong's last: 2 Timothy 2:21
Open full G1571 profile →katharízō · kath-ar-id'-zo
to cleanse (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--(make) clean(-se), purge, purify.
Strong's first: Hebrews 9:14Strong's last: Hebrews 9:14
Open full G2511 profile →bârar · baw-rar'
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).
Strong's first: Daniel 11:35Strong's last: Daniel 11:35
Open full H1305 profile →zâqaq · zaw-kak'
to strain, (figuratively) extract, clarify
Strong's KJV usage: fine, pour down, purge, purify, refine.
Strong's first: Malachi 3:3Strong's last: Malachi 3:3
Open full H2212 profile →châṭâʼ · khaw-taw'
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.
Strong's first: Psalms 51:7Strong's last: Psalms 51:7
Open full H2398 profile →ṭâhêr · taw-hare'
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).
Strong's first: 2 Chronicles 34:3Strong's last: 2 Chronicles 34:3
Open full H2891 profile →Strong's data is a concordance/lexical reference layer. Scripture context controls interpretation. Lexical source data is shown separately from future TWBC editorial teaching.
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Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
Iniquities prevail against me: as for our transgressions, thou shalt purge them away.
Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name: and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name's sake.
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PURGE, verb transitive purj. [Latin purgo.]
1. To cleanse or purify by separating and carrying off whatever is impure, heterogeneous, foreign or superfluous; as, to purge the body by evacuation; to purge the Augean stable. It is followed by away, of, or off. We say, to purge away or to purge off filth, and to purge a liquor of its scum.
2. To clear from guilt or moral defilement; as, to purge one of guilt or crime; to purge away sin.
PURGE away our sins, for thy name's sake. Psalms 79:9.
PURGE me with hyssop and I shall be clean. Psalms 51:7.
3. To clear from accusation or the charge of a crime, as in ordeal.
4. To remove what is offensive; to sweep away impurities. Ezekiel 20:38.
5. To clarify; to defecate; as liquors.
PURGE, verb intransitive To become pure by clarification.
1. To have frequent or preternatural evacuations by stool.
PURGE, noun A medicine that evacuates the body by stool; a cathartic.
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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