To purify
בָּרַרStrong’s H1305barar (ba-rar)
Appears in 16 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Barar is the Hebrew word usually translated “purifies himself”, “show yourself pure” and “chosen”. It appears in 16 verses of the Old Testament.
“And some of them of understanding shall fall, to try them, and to purge, and to make them white, even to the time of the end: because it is yet for a time appointed.”
Meaning
- To purify, select, polish, choose, purge, cleanse or make bright, test or prove(Qal) · (Niphal) to purify oneself · (Piel) to purify · (Hiphil) · (Hithpael)
How it's translated
- purifies himself 2
- you show yourself pure 2
- chosen 2
- purified 2
- who had been chosen 1
- those had been chosen 1
- to test them 1
- polished 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Chronicles 3
- Isaiah 2
- Jeremiah 2
- Daniel 2
- 2 Samuel 1
- Nehemiah 1
11 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 12:10In contextMany shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.
- 2 Samuel 22:27With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself unsavoury.
- 1 Chronicles 7:40All these were the children of Asher, heads of their father’s house, choice and mighty men of valour, chief of the princes. And the number throughout the genealogy of them that were apt to the war and to battle was twenty and six thousand men.
- 1 Chronicles 9:22All these which were chosen to be porters in the gates were two hundred and twelve. These were reckoned by their genealogy in their villages, whom David and Samuel the seer did ordain in their set office.
- 1 Chronicles 16:41And with them Heman and Jeduthun, and the rest that were chosen, who were expressed by name, to give thanks to the LORD, because his mercy endureth for ever;
- Nehemiah 5:18Now that which was prepared for me daily was one ox and six choice sheep; also fowls were prepared for me, and once in ten days store of all sorts of wine: yet for all this required not I the bread of the governor, because the bondage was heavy upon this people.
Hebrew dictionary
בָּרַר barar · to purify
1) to purify, select, polish, choose, purge, cleanse or make bright, test or prove 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to purge, purge out, purify 1a2) to choose, select 1a3) to cleanse, make shining, polish 1a4) to test, prove 1b) (Niphal) to purify oneself 1c) (Piel) to purify 1d) (Hiphil) 1d1) to purify 1d2) to polish arrows 1e) (Hithpael) 1e1) to purify oneself 1e2) to show oneself pure, just, kind
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “purify” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PU'RIFY, verb transitive
[Latin purifico; purus, pure, and facio, to make.]
- To make pure or clear; to free from extraneous admixture; as, to purify liquors or metals; to purify the blood; to purify the air.
- To free from pollution ceremonially; to remove whatever renders unclean and unfit for sacred services.“Purify yourselves and your captives on the third day, and on the seventh day purify all your raiment” Numbers 31:19
- To free from guilt or the defilement of sin; as, to purify the heart.“Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works” Titus 2:14
- To clear form improprieties or barbarisms; as, to purify a language.
All definitions and other forms of “purify”
PU'RIFY, verb intransitive
To grow or become pure or clear. Liquors will gradually purify
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.