Ṭohŏrâh — H2893

Definition

feminine noun

ceremonial purification; moral purity

1. purifying, cleansing, purification, purity, cleanness
1. purifying, menstruation
2. cleansing, purification

Usually translated as

cleansing, purifying, purification, is cleansed

Origin

feminine of H2892

• Ṭôhar (H2892)

Greek equivalents

• hagneía (G47)
• katharismós (G2512)

Occurrences

Ṭohŏrâh occurs 13 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Leviticus (8), Numbers (1), 1 Chronicles (1), 2 Chronicles (1), Nehemiah (1), Ezekiel (1)

• Leviticus 12:4 — And she shall then continue in the blood of her purifying three and thirty days; she shall touch no hallowed thing, nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purifying be fulfilled.
• Leviticus 12:5 — But if she bear a maid child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her separation: and she shall continue in the blood of her purifying threescore and six days.
• Leviticus 13:7 — But if the scab spread much abroad in the skin, after that he hath been seen of the priest for his cleansing (לְטָהֳרָת֑וֹ), he shall be seen of the priest again:
• Leviticus 13:35 — But if the scall spread much in the skin after his cleansing (טָהֳרָתֽוֹ);
• Leviticus 14:2 — This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing (טָהֳרָת֑וֹ): He shall be brought unto the priest:
• Leviticus 14:23 — And he shall bring them on the eighth day for his cleansing (לְטָהֳרָת֖וֹ) unto the priest, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, before the LORD.
• Leviticus 14:32 — This is the law of him in whom is the plague of leprosy, whose hand is not able to get that which pertaineth to his cleansing (בְּטָהֳרָתֽוֹ).
• 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 (לְטָהֳרָת֖וֹ), and wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in running water, and shall be clean.
• Numbers 6:9 — And if any man die very suddenly by him, and he hath defiled the head of his consecration; then he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing (טָהֳרָת֔וֹ), on the seventh day shall he shave it.
• 1 Chronicles 23:28 — Because their office was to wait on the sons of Aaron for the service of the house of the LORD, in the courts, and in the chambers, and in the purifying (טָהֳרַ֖ת) of all holy things, and the work of the service of the house of God;
• 2 Chronicles 30:19 — That prepareth his heart to seek God, the LORD God of his fathers, though he be not cleansed according to the purification (כְּטָהֳרַ֥ת) of the sanctuary.
• Nehemiah 12:45 — And both the singers and the porters kept the ward of their God, and the ward of the purification (הַֽטָּהֳרָ֔ה), according to the commandment of David, and of Solomon his son.
• Ezekiel 44:26 — And after he is cleansed (טָֽהֳרָת֑וֹ), they shall reckon unto him seven days.