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Pure

πιστικόςStrong’s G4101

pistikos

Appears in 2 verses of the New Testament

In short

Pistikos is the Greek word usually translated “pure”. It appears in 2 verses of the New Testament.

“And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head.”
Mark 14:3 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “pure”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • pure 2

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Mark 1
  • John 1

2 books in all.

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Greek dictionary

πιστικός pistikos · pure

πιστικός, -ή, -όν (πίστις), 1. having the gift of persuasion (Plat., Gorg., 455A). 2. (a) of persons, faithful, trusty (Plut.); (b) of things, trustworthy, genuine: νάρδος π., Mrk.14:3, Jhn.12:3. † (AS)

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “pure” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

PURE, adjective

[Latin purus.]

  1. Separate from all heterogeneous or extraneous matter; clear; free from mixture; as pure water; pure clay; pure sand; pure air; pure silver of gold. pure wine is very scare.
  2. Free from moral defilement; without spot; not sullied or tarnished; incorrupt; undebased by moral turpitude; holy.“Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil” Habakkuk 1:13
  3. Genuine; real; true; incorrupt; unadulterated; as pure religion. James 1:27
  4. Unmixed; separate from any other subject or from every thing foreign; as pure mathematics.
All definitions and other forms of “pure”
  1. Free from guilt; guiltless; innocent.
  2. Not vitiated with improper or corrupt words or phrases; as a pure style of discourse or composition.
  3. Disinterested; as pure benevolence.
  4. Chaste; as a pure virgin.
  5. Free from vice or moral turpitude. Titus 1:15
  6. Ceremonially clean; unpolluted. Ezra 6:20
  7. Free from any thing improper; as, his motives are pure
  8. Mere; absolute; that and that only; unconnected with any thing else; as a pure villain.

PURE, verb transitive

To purify; to cleanse. [Not in use.]

    Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

    Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.