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To wash

דּוּחַStrong’s H1740

duach (du-ach)

Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Duach is the Hebrew word usually translated “people rinsed”, “cleanse” and “rinsed out me”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.

“He made also ten lavers, and put five on the right hand, and five on the left, to wash in them: such things as they offered for the burnt offering they washed in them; but the sea was for the priests to wash in.”
2 Chronicles 4:6 KJV
Meaning
  1. To rinse, cleanse away by rinsing, cast out, purge, wash, washing(Hiphil)
How it's translated
  • people rinsed 1
  • he will cleanse 1
  • he rinsed out me 1
  • people rinse 1

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

Where it's used most
  • 2 Chronicles 1
  • Isaiah 1
  • Jeremiah 1
  • Ezekiel 1

4 books in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

דּוּחַ duach · to wash

1) to rinse, cleanse away by rinsing, cast out, purge, wash, washing 1a) (Hiphil) 1a1) to rinse 1a2) to cleanse (by washing) (fig.)

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

WASH, verb transitive

[G.]

  1. To cleanse by ablution, or by rubbing in water; as, to wash the hands or the body; to wash garments.
  2. To wet; to fall on and moisten; as, the rain washes the flowers or plants.
  3. To overflow.
  4. To overflow or dash against; to cover with water; as, the waves wash the strand or shore; the sea washes the rocks on the shore or beach.
All definitions and other forms of “wash”
  1. To scrub in water; as, to wash a deck or a floor.
  2. To separate extraneous matter from; as, to wash ore; to wash grain.
  3. In painting, to lay a color over any work with a pencil, to give it the proper tints, and make it appear more natural.
  4. To rub over with some liquid substance; as, to wash trees fro removing insects or diseases.
  5. To squeeze and cleanse in water; as, to wash wool.
  6. To cleanse by a current of water; as, showers wash the streets.
  7. To overlay with a thin coat of metal; as steel washed with silver.
  8. To purify from the pollution of sin.“But ye are washed, but ye are sanctified” 1 Corinthians 6:11

WASH, verb intransitive

  1. To perform the act of ablution.“WASH in Jordan seven times. [Elliptical.]” 2 Kings 5:10
  2. To perform the business of cleansing clothes in water.

WASH, noun

  1. Alluvial matter; substances collected and deposited by water; as the wash of a river.
  2. A bog; a marsh; a fen.
  3. A cosmetic; as a wash for the face, to help the complexion.
  4. A lotion; a medical liquid preparation for external application.
  5. A superficial stain or color.
  6. Waste liquor of a kitchen for hogs.
  7. The act of washing the clothes of a family; or the whole quantity washed at once.
  8. With distillers, the fermentable liquor made b dissolving the proper subject for fermentation and distillation in common water.
  9. The shallow part of a river, or arm of the sea; as the wastes in Lincolnshire.
  10. The blade of an oar; the thin part, which enters the water and by whose impulse the boat is moved.
  11. The color laid on a picture to vary its tints.
  12. A substance laid on boards or other work for beauty or preservation.
  13. A thin coat of metal.
  14. In the west Indies, a mixture of dunder, molasses, water and scummings, for distillation.

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.