Numbers 19:12
He shall purify himself with it on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean: but if he purify not himself the third day, then the seventh day he shall not be clean.
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Purify
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James 4:8
Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
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6 occurrences in 5 verses.
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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.
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Strong's first: Numbers 19:12Strong's last: Job 41:25
Open full H2398 profile →טָהֵר
ṭâhêr · taw-hare'
3 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: Isaiah 66:17Strong's last: Malachi 3:3
Open full H2891 profile →ἁγνίζω
hagnízō · hag-nid'-zo
2 times translated as this KJV form7 total Strong's occurrences
to make clean, i.e. (figuratively) sanctify (ceremonially or morally)
Strong's KJV usage: :--purify (self).
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Strong's first: John 11:55Strong's last: James 4:8
Open full G48 profile →καθαρίζω
katharízō · kath-ar-id'-zo
1 times translated as this KJV form36 total Strong's occurrences
to cleanse (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--(make) clean(-se), purge, purify.
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Strong's first: Titus 2:14Strong's last: Titus 2:14
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H2891
And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness.
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purify
PU'RIFY, verb transitive [Latin purifico; purus, pure, and facio, to make.]
1. To make pure or clear; to free from extraneous admixture; as, to purify liquors or metals; to purify the blood; to purify the air.
2. To free from pollution ceremonially; to remove whatever renders unclean and unfit for sacred services.
Purify yourselves and your captives on the third day, and on the seventh day purify all your raiment. Numbers 31:19.
3. To free from guilt or the defilement of sin; as, to purify the heart.
Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. Titus 2:14.
4. To clear form improprieties or barbarisms; as, to purify a language.
PU'RIFY, verb intransitive To grow or become pure or clear. Liquors will gradually purify
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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