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And a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up without the camp in a clean place, and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a water of separation: it is a purification for sin.
Read in context →Then Paul took the men, and the next day purifying himself with them entered into the temple, to signify the accomplishment of the days of purification, until that an offering should be offered for every one of them.
Read in context →2 occurrences in 2 verses.
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ṭohŏrâh · toh-or-aw'
ceremonial purification; moral purity
Strong's KJV usage: × is cleansed, cleansing, purification(-fying).
Strong's first: 2 Chronicles 30:19Strong's last: Nehemiah 12:45
Open full H2893 profile →tamrûwq · tam-rook'
properly, a scouring, i.e. soap or perfumery for the bath; figuratively, a detergent
Strong's KJV usage: × cleanse, (thing for) purification(-fying).
Strong's first: Esther 2:3Strong's last: Esther 2:9
Open full H8562 profile →hagnismós · hag-nis-mos'
a cleansing (the act), i.e. (ceremonially) lustration
Strong's KJV usage: :--purification.
Strong's first: Acts 21:26Strong's last: Acts 21:26
Open full G49 profile →katharismós · kath-ar-is-mos'
a washing off, i.e. (ceremonially) ablution, (morally) expiation
Strong's KJV usage: :--cleansing, + purge, purification(-fying).
Strong's first: Luke 2:22Strong's last: Luke 2:22
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And let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, that they may gather together all the fair young virgins unto Shushan the palace, to the house of the women, unto the custody of Hege the king's chamberlain, keeper of the women; and let their things for purification be given them:
And the maiden pleased him, and she obtained kindness of him; and he speedily gave her her things for purification, with such things as belonged to her, and seven maidens, which were meet to be given her, out of the king's house: and he preferred her and her maids unto the best place of the house of the women.
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PURIFICA'TION, noun [Latin purificatio. See Purify.]
1. The act of purifying; the act or operation of separating and removing from any thing that which is heterogeneous or foreign to it; as the purification of liquors or of metals.
2. In religion, the act or operation of cleansing ceremonially, by removing any pollution or defilement. purification by washing or by other means, was common to the Hebrews and to pagans. The Mohammedans use purification as a preparation for devotion. 2 Chronicles 30:19. Esther 2:3. Luke 2:22.
3. A cleansing from guilt or the pollution of sin; the extinction of sinful desires, appetites and inclinations.
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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