Zâkak — H2141

Definition

verb

to be transparent or clean (phys. or morally)

1. to be pure, be bright, be clean, be bright, clean
1. (Qal)
1. to be bright, be shining
2. to be clean, be pure
2. (Hiphil) to cleanse, make cleanse, make clean

Usually translated as

clean, be pure, be purer, be

Origin

a primitive root (compare H2135)

• Zâkâh (H2135)

Occurrences

Zâkak occurs 4 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Job (3), Lamentations (1)

• Job 9:30 — If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean (וַ֝הֲזִכּ֗וֹתִי);
• Job 15:15 — Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean (זַכּ֥וּ) in his sight.
• Job 25:5 — Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure (זַכּ֥וּ) in his sight.
• Lamentations 4:7 — Her Nazarites were purer (זַכּ֤וּ) than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was of sapphire: