Ṭâhêr — H2891

Definition

verb

to be pure (physical sound, clear, unadulterated; Levitically, uncontaminated; morally, innocent or holy)

1. to be clean, be pure
1. (Qal)
1. to be clean (physically-of disease)
2. to be clean ceremonially
3. to purify, be clean morally, made clean
2. (Piel)
1. to cleanse, purify
1. physically
2. ceremonially
3. morally
2. to pronounce clean
3. to perform the ceremony of cleansing
3. (Pual) to be cleansed, be pronounced clean
4. (Hithpael)
1. to purify oneself
1. ceremonially
2. morally
2. to present oneself for purification

Usually translated as

clean, cleanse, purify, purge, purifier, be

Origin

a primitive root; properly, to be bright; i.e. (by implication)

Greek equivalents

• hagnízō (G48)
• hagnismós (G49)
• akáthartos (G169)
• ámemptos (G273)
• bréchō (G1026)
• katharízō (G2511)
• katharismós (G2512)
• katharós (G2513)

Occurrences

Ṭâhêr occurs 94 times in 79 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (1), Leviticus (35), Numbers (8), Joshua (1), 2 Kings (4), 2 Chronicles (7), Ezra (1), Nehemiah (4), Job (2), Psalms (2), Proverbs (1), Isaiah (1), Jeremiah (2), Ezekiel (9), Malachi (1)

• Genesis 35:2 — Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean (וְהִֽטַּהֲר֔וּ), and change your garments:
• Leviticus 11:32 — And upon whatsoever any of them, when they are dead, doth fall, it shall be unclean; whether it be any vessel of wood, or raiment, or skin, or sack, whatsoever vessel it be, wherein any work is done, it must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the even; so it shall be cleansed (וְטָהֵֽר).
• Leviticus 12:7 — Who shall offer it before the LORD, and make an atonement for her; and she shall be cleansed (וְטָהֲרָ֖ה) from the issue of her blood. This is the law for her that hath born a male or a female.
• Leviticus 12:8 — And if she be not able to bring a lamb, then she shall bring two turtles, or two young pigeons; the one for the burnt offering, and the other for a sin offering: and the priest shall make an atonement for her, and she shall be clean (וְטָהֵֽרָה).
• Leviticus 13:6 — And the priest shall look on him again the seventh day: and, behold, if the plague be somewhat dark, and the plague spread not in the skin, the priest shall pronounce him clean (וְטִהֲר֤וֹ): it is but a scab: and he shall wash his clothes, and be clean.
• Leviticus 13:6 — And the priest shall look on him again the seventh day: and, behold, if the plague be somewhat dark, and the plague spread not in the skin, the priest shall pronounce him clean: it is but a scab: and he shall wash his clothes, and be clean (וְטָהֵֽר).
• Leviticus 13:13 — Then the priest shall consider: and, behold, if the leprosy have covered all his flesh, he shall pronounce him clean (וְטִהַ֖ר) that hath the plague: it is all turned white: he is clean.
• Leviticus 13:17 — And the priest shall see him: and, behold, if the plague be turned into white; then the priest shall pronounce him clean (וְטִהַ֧ר) that hath the plague: he is clean.
• Leviticus 13:23 — But if the bright spot stay in his place, and spread not, it is a burning boil; and the priest shall pronounce him clean (וְטִהֲר֖וֹ).
• Leviticus 13:28 — And if the bright spot stay in his place, and spread not in the skin, but it be somewhat dark; it is a rising of the burning, and the priest shall pronounce him clean (וְטִֽהֲרוֹ֙): for it is an inflammation of the burning.
• Leviticus 13:34 — And in the seventh day the priest shall look on the scall: and, behold, if the scall be not spread in the skin, nor be in sight deeper than the skin; then the priest shall pronounce him clean (וְטִהַ֤ר): and he shall wash his clothes, and be clean.
• Leviticus 13:34 — And in the seventh day the priest shall look on the scall: and, behold, if the scall be not spread in the skin, nor be in sight deeper than the skin; then the priest shall pronounce him clean: and he shall wash his clothes, and be clean (וְטָהֵֽר).
• Leviticus 13:37 — But if the scall be in his sight at a stay, and that there is black hair grown up therein; the scall is healed, he is clean: and the priest shall pronounce him clean (וְטִהֲר֖וֹ).
• Leviticus 13:58 — And the garment, either warp, or woof, or whatsoever thing of skin it be, which thou shalt wash, if the plague be departed from them, then it shall be washed the second time, and shall be clean (וְטָהֵֽר).
• Leviticus 13:59 — This is the law of the plague of leprosy in a garment of woollen or linen, either in the warp, or woof, or any thing of skins, to pronounce it clean (לְטַהֲר֖וֹ), or to pronounce it unclean.
• Leviticus 14:4 — Then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed (לַמִּטַּהֵ֛ר) two birds alive and clean, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:
• Leviticus 14:7 — And he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed (הַמִּטַּהֵ֛ר) from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the living bird loose into the open field.
• Leviticus 14:7 — And he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean (וְטִ֣הֲר֔וֹ), and shall let the living bird loose into the open field.
• Leviticus 14:8 — And he that is to be cleansed (הַמִּטַּהֵ֨ר) shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair, and wash himself in water, that he may be clean: and after that he shall come into the camp, and shall tarry abroad out of his tent seven days.
• Leviticus 14:8 — And he that is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair, and wash himself in water, that he may be clean (וְטָהֵ֔ר): and after that he shall come into the camp, and shall tarry abroad out of his tent seven days.
• Leviticus 14:9 — But it shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shall shave off: and he shall wash his clothes, also he shall wash his flesh in water, and he shall be clean (וְטָהֵֽר).
• Leviticus 14:11 — And the priest that maketh him clean (הַֽמְטַהֵ֗ר) shall present the man that is to be made clean, and those things, before the LORD, at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation:
• Leviticus 14:11 — And the priest that maketh him clean shall present the man that is to be made clean (הַמִּטַּהֵ֖ר), and those things, before the LORD, at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation:
• Leviticus 14:14 — And the priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and the priest shall put it upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed (הַמִּטַּהֵ֖ר), and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot:
• Leviticus 14:17 — And of the rest of the oil that is in his hand shall the priest put upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed (הַמִּטַּהֵר֙), and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot, upon the blood of the trespass offering:
• Leviticus 14:18 — And the remnant of the oil that is in the priest’s hand he shall pour upon the head of him that is to be cleansed (הַמִּטַּהֵ֑ר): and the priest shall make an atonement for him before the LORD.
• Leviticus 14:19 — And the priest shall offer the sin offering, and make an atonement for him that is to be cleansed (הַמִּטַּהֵ֖ר) from his uncleanness; and afterward he shall kill the burnt offering:
• Leviticus 14:20 — And the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the meat offering upon the altar: and the priest shall make an atonement for him, and he shall be clean (וְטָהֵֽר).
• Leviticus 14:25 — And he shall kill the lamb of the trespass offering, and the priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and put it upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed (הַמִּטַּהֵ֖ר), and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot:
• Leviticus 14:28 — And the priest shall put of the oil that is in his hand upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed (הַמִּטַּהֵר֙), and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot, upon the place of the blood of the trespass offering:
• Leviticus 14:29 — And the rest of the oil that is in the priest’s hand he shall put upon the head of him that is to be cleansed (הַמִּטַּהֵ֑ר), to make an atonement for him before the LORD.
• Leviticus 14:31 — Even such as he is able to get, the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, with the meat offering: and the priest shall make an atonement for him that is to be cleansed (הַמִּטַּהֵ֖ר) before the LORD.
• Leviticus 14:48 — And if the priest shall come in, and look upon it, and, behold, the plague hath not spread in the house, after the house was plaistered: then the priest shall pronounce the house clean (וְטִהַ֤ר), because the plague is healed.
• Leviticus 14:53 — But he shall let go the living bird out of the city into the open fields, and make an atonement for the house: and it shall be clean (וְטָהֵֽר).
• Leviticus 15:13 — And when he that hath an issue is cleansed (יִטְהַ֤ר) of his issue; then he shall number to himself seven days for his cleansing, and wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in running water, and shall be clean.
• Leviticus 15:13 — And when he that hath an issue is cleansed of his issue; then he shall number to himself seven days for his cleansing, and wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in running water, and shall be clean (וְטָהֵֽר).
• Leviticus 15:28 — But if she be cleansed (טָהֲרָ֖ה) of her issue, then she shall number to herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean.
• Leviticus 15:28 — But if she be cleansed of her issue, then she shall number to herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean (תִּטְהָֽר).
• Leviticus 16:19 — And he shall sprinkle of the blood upon it with his finger seven times, and cleanse (וְטִהֲר֣וֹ) it, and hallow it from the uncleanness of the children of Israel.
• Leviticus 16:30 — For on that day shall the priest make an atonement for you, to cleanse (לְטַהֵ֣ר) you, that ye may be clean from all your sins before the LORD.
• Leviticus 16:30 — For on that day shall the priest make an atonement for you, to cleanse you, that ye may be clean (תִּטְהָֽרוּ) from all your sins before the LORD.
• Leviticus 17:15 — And every soul that eateth that which died of itself, or that which was torn with beasts, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger, he shall both wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even: then shall he be clean (וְטָהֵֽר).
• Leviticus 22:4 — What man soever of the seed of Aaron is a leper, or hath a running issue; he shall not eat of the holy things, until he be clean (יִטְהָ֑ר). And whoso toucheth any thing that is unclean by the dead, or a man whose seed goeth from him;
• Leviticus 22:7 — And when the sun is down, he shall be clean (וְטָהֵ֑ר), and shall afterward eat of the holy things; because it is his food.
• Numbers 8:6 — Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse (וְטִהַרְתָּ֖) them.
• Numbers 8:7 — And thus shalt thou do unto them, to cleanse (לְטַֽהֲרָ֔ם) them: Sprinkle water of purifying upon them, and let them shave all their flesh, and let them wash their clothes, and so make themselves clean.
• Numbers 8:7 — And thus shalt thou do unto them, to cleanse them: Sprinkle water of purifying upon them, and let them shave all their flesh, and let them wash their clothes, and so make themselves clean (וְהִטֶּהָֽרוּ).
• Numbers 8:15 — And after that shall the Levites go in to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation: and thou shalt cleanse (וְטִֽהַרְתָּ֣) them, and offer them for an offering.
• Numbers 8:21 — And the Levites were purified, and they washed their clothes; and Aaron offered them as an offering before the LORD; and Aaron made an atonement for them to cleanse (לְטַהֲרָֽם) them.
• Numbers 19:12 — He shall purify himself with it on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean (יִטְהָ֑ר): but if he purify not himself the third day, then the seventh day he shall not be clean.