Pure
בַּרStrong’s H1249bar
Appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Bar is the Hebrew word usually translated “clean”, “pure of” and “pure”. It appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament.
“For thou hast said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes.”
Meaning
- Pure, clear, sincere
- Clean, empty
- Purely
How it's translated
- clean 2
- and clean 1
- and a pure of 1
- to pure of 1
- a pure 1
- pure 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 3
- Song of Solomon 2
- Job 1
- Proverbs 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Psalms 19:8The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes.
- Psalms 24:4He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
- Psalms 73:1Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart.
- Proverbs 14:4Where no oxen are, the crib is clean: but much increase is by the strength of the ox.
- Song of Solomon 6:9My dove, my undefiled is but one; she is the only one of her mother, she is the choice one of her that bare her. The daughters saw her, and blessed her; yea, the queens and the concubines, and they praised her.
- Song of Solomon 6:10Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners?
Hebrew dictionary
בַּר bar · pure
adj 1) pure, clear, sincere 2) clean, empty adv 3) purely
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
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.]
- 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.
- 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
- Genuine; real; true; incorrupt; unadulterated; as pure religion. James 1:27
- Unmixed; separate from any other subject or from every thing foreign; as pure mathematics.
All definitions and other forms of “pure”
- Free from guilt; guiltless; innocent.
- Not vitiated with improper or corrupt words or phrases; as a pure style of discourse or composition.
- Disinterested; as pure benevolence.
- Chaste; as a pure virgin.
- Free from vice or moral turpitude. Titus 1:15
- Ceremonially clean; unpolluted. Ezra 6:20
- Free from any thing improper; as, his motives are pure
- 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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.