John 15:2
Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
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John 15:2
Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
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καθαίρω
kathaírō · kath-ah'-ee-ro
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
to cleanse, i.e. (specially) to prune; figuratively, to expiate
Strong's KJV usage: :--purge.
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Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
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purge
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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