רָחַץ

One evening David got up from his bed and strolled around on the roof of the palace. And from the roof he saw a woman bathing—a very beautiful woman.

Then he said to Uriah, “Go down to your house and wash your feet.” So Uriah left the palace, and a gift from the king followed him.

Then David got up from the ground, washed and anointed himself, changed his clothes, and went into the house of the LORD and worshiped. Then he went to his own house, and at his request they set food before him, and he ate.

And the chariot was washed at the pool of Samaria where the prostitutes bathed, and the dogs licked up Ahab’s blood, according to the word that the LORD had spoken.

Then Elisha sent him a messenger, who said, “Go and wash yourself seven times in the Jordan, and your flesh will be restored, and you will be clean.”

Are not the Abanah and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Could I not have washed in them and been cleansed?” So he turned and went away in a rage.

Naaman’s servants, however, approached him and said, “My father, if the prophet had told you to do some great thing, would you not have done it? How much more, then, when he tells you, ‘Wash and be cleansed’?”

He also made ten basins for washing and placed five on the south side and five on the north. The parts of the burnt offering were rinsed in them, but the priests used the Sea for washing.

If I should wash myself with snow and cleanse my hands with lye,

…when my steps were bathed in cream and the rock poured out for me streams of oil!

I wash my hands in innocence that I may go about Your altar, O LORD,

The righteous will rejoice when they see they are avenged; they will wash their feet in the blood of the wicked.

Surely in vain I have kept my heart pure; in innocence I have washed my hands.

There is a generation of those who are pure in their own eyes and yet unwashed of their filth.

I have taken off my robe—must I put it back on? I have washed my feet—must I soil them again?

His eyes are like doves beside the streams of water, bathed in milk and mounted like jewels.

Wash and cleanse yourselves. Remove your evil deeds from My sight. Stop doing evil!

…when the Lord has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion and cleansed the bloodstains from the heart of Jerusalem by a spirit of judgment and a spirit of fire.

On the day of your birth your cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water for cleansing. You were not rubbed with salt or wrapped in cloths.

Then I bathed you with water, rinsed off your blood, and anointed you with oil.

Furthermore, you sisters sent messengers for men who came from afar; and behold, when they arrived, you bathed for them, painted your eyes, and adorned yourself with jewelry.