Definition
or טָהֹר; from H2891; pure (in a physical, chemical, ceremonial or moral sense)
Traditional renderings: clean, fair, pure(-ness).
Traditional renderings: clean, fair, pure(-ness).
In the Greek Old Testament
How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders טָהוֹר:
Usage patterns
Occurrences
94 total
- Leviticus 15:8בַּטָּה֑וֹר · on one who is cleanIf the man with the discharge spits on one who is clean, that person must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening.
- Leviticus 20:25הַטְּהֹרָה֙ · clean; לַטָּהֹ֑רYou are therefore to distinguish between clean and unclean animals and birds. Do not become contaminated by any animal or bird, or by anything that crawls on the ground; I have set these apart as unclean for you.
- Leviticus 24:4הַטְּהֹרָ֔ה · the pure [gold]He shall tend the lamps on the pure gold lampstand before the LORD continually.
- Leviticus 24:6הַטָּהֹ֖ר · of pure gold…and set them in two rows—six per row—on the table of pure gold before the LORD.
- Numbers 5:28וּטְהֹרָ֖ה · and is cleanBut if the woman has not defiled herself and is clean, she will be unaffected and able to conceive children.
- Numbers 9:13טָה֜וֹר · ceremonially cleanBut if a man who is ceremonially clean and is not on a journey still fails to observe the Passover, he must be cut off from his people, because he did not present the LORD’s offering at its appointed time. That man will bear the consequences of his sin.
- Numbers 18:11טָה֥וֹר · ceremonially clean personAnd this is yours as well: the offering of their gifts, along with all the wave offerings of the Israelites. I have given this to you and your sons and daughters as a permanent statute. Every ceremonially clean person in your household may eat it.
- Numbers 18:13טָה֥וֹר · ceremonially clean personThe firstfruits of everything in their land that they bring to the LORD will belong to you. Every ceremonially clean person in your household may eat them.
- Numbers 19:9טָה֗וֹר · who is ceremonially clean; טָה֑וֹר · in a ceremonially cleanThen a man who is ceremonially clean is to gather up the ashes of the heifer and store them in a ceremonially clean place outside the camp. They must be kept by the congregation of Israel for preparing the water of purification; this is for purification from sin.
- Numbers 19:18טָהוֹר֒ · who is ceremonially cleanThen a man who is ceremonially clean is to take some hyssop, dip it in the water, and sprinkle the tent, all the furnishings, and the people who were there. He is also to sprinkle the one who touched a bone, a grave, or a person who has died or been slain.
- Numbers 19:19הַטָּהֹר֙ · The man who is ceremonially cleanThe man who is ceremonially clean is to sprinkle the unclean person on the third day and on the seventh day. After he purifies the unclean person on the seventh day, the one being cleansed must wash his clothes and bathe in water, and that evening he will be clean.
- Deuteronomy 12:15וְהַטָּהוֹר֙ · Both the ceremonially cleanBut whenever you want, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your gates, according to the blessing the LORD your God has given you. Both the ceremonially clean and unclean may eat it as they would a gazelle or deer,
- Deuteronomy 12:22וְהַטָּה֔וֹר · and the cleanIndeed, you may eat it as you would eat a gazelle or deer; both the ceremonially unclean and the clean may eat it.
- Deuteronomy 14:11טְהֹרָ֖ה · cleanYou may eat any clean bird,
- Deuteronomy 14:20טָה֖וֹר · cleanBut you may eat any clean bird.
- Deuteronomy 15:22וְהַטָּהוֹר֙ · and clean [may eat it]Eat it within your gates; both the ceremonially unclean and clean may eat it as they would a gazelle or a deer.
- Deuteronomy 23:10טָה֖וֹר · uncleanIf any man among you becomes unclean because of a nocturnal emission, he must leave the camp and stay outside.
- 1 Samuel 20:26טָה֛וֹר; טָהֽוֹר׃סSaul said nothing that day because he thought, “Something has happened to David to make him ceremonially unclean—surely he is unclean.”
- 1 Chronicles 28:17טָה֑וֹר · [the weight of] the pure…the weight of the pure gold for the forks, sprinkling bowls, and pitchers; the weight of each gold dish; the weight of each silver bowl;
- 2 Chronicles 3:4טָהֽוֹר׃ · with pureThe portico at the front, extending across the width of the temple, was twenty cubits long and twenty cubits high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold.
- 2 Chronicles 9:17טָהֽוֹר׃ · with pureAdditionally, the king made a great throne of ivory and overlaid it with pure gold.
- 2 Chronicles 13:11הַטָּה֗וֹר · the ceremonially cleanEvery morning and every evening they present burnt offerings and fragrant incense to the LORD. They set out the rows of showbread on the ceremonially clean table, and every evening they light the lamps of the gold lampstand. We are carrying out the requirements of the LORD our God, while you have forsaken Him.
- 2 Chronicles 30:17טָה֔וֹרSince there were many in the assembly who had not consecrated themselves, the Levites were in charge of slaughtering the Passover lambs for every unclean person to consecrate the lambs to the LORD.
- Ezra 6:20טְהוֹרִ֑ים · and were ceremonially cleanAll the priests and Levites had purified themselves and were ceremonially clean. And the Levites slaughtered the Passover lamb for all the exiles, for their priestly brothers, and for themselves.
- Job 14:4טָ֭הוֹר · cleanWho can bring out clean from unclean? No one!
- Job 17:9וּֽטֳהָר־Yet a righteous one holds to his way, and the one with clean hands grows stronger.
- Job 28:19טָ֝ה֗וֹר · in pureTopaz from Cush cannot compare to it, nor can it be valued in pure gold.
- Psalm 12:6טְהֹ֫ר֥וֹת · are flawlessThe words of the LORD are flawless, like silver refined in a furnace, like gold purified sevenfold.
- Psalm 19:9טְהוֹרָה֮ · is pureThe fear of the LORD is pure, enduring forever; the judgments of the LORD are true, being altogether righteous.
- Psalm 51:10טָ֭הוֹר · a cleanCreate in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
- Proverbs 15:26וּ֝טְהֹרִ֗ים · of the pureThe LORD detests the thoughts of the wicked, but the words of the pure are pleasant to Him.
- Proverbs 22:11טְהוֹר · a pure heartHe who loves a pure heart and gracious lips will have the king for a friend.
- Proverbs 30:12טָה֣וֹר · of those who are pureThere is a generation of those who are pure in their own eyes and yet unwashed of their filth.
- Ecclesiastes 9:2וְלַטָּה֣וֹר · for the cleanIt is the same for all: There is a common fate for the righteous and the wicked, for the good and the bad, for the clean and the unclean, for the one who sacrifices and the one who does not. As it is for the good, so it is for the sinner; as it is for the one who makes a vow, so it is for the one who refuses to take a vow.
- Isaiah 66:20טָה֖וֹר · in a cleanAnd they will bring all your brothers from all the nations as a gift to the LORD on horses and chariots and wagons, on mules and camels, to My holy mountain Jerusalem,” says the LORD, “just as the Israelites bring an offering in a clean vessel to the house of the LORD.”
- Ezekiel 22:26לְטָה֖וֹר · the cleanHer priests do violence to My law and profane My holy things. They make no distinction between the holy and the common, and they fail to distinguish between the clean and the unclean. They disregard My Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them.
- Ezekiel 36:25טְהוֹרִ֖ים · cleanI will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your idols.
- Ezekiel 44:23לְטָה֖וֹר · the cleanThey are to teach My people the difference between the holy and the common and show them how to discern between the clean and the unclean.
- Zechariah 3:5טָה֖וֹר · a clean; הַטָּה֜וֹר · So a cleanThen I said, “Let them put a clean turban on his head.” So a clean turban was placed on his head, and they clothed him, as the angel of the LORD stood by.
- Malachi 1:11טְהוֹרָ֑ה · and pureFor My name will be great among the nations, from where the sun rises to where it sets. In every place, incense and pure offerings will be presented in My name, because My name will be great among the nations,” says the LORD of Hosts.