Pure
זַךְStrong’s H2134zakh
Appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Zakh is the Hebrew word usually translated “pure”. It appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament.
“And thou shalt command the children of Israel, that they bring thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamp to burn always.”
Meaning
- Clean, purepure · pure, clean, righteous (fig.)
- The pure one (subst)
How it's translated
- pure 10
- and a pure 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 4
- Proverbs 3
- Exodus 2
- Leviticus 2
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 30:34And the LORD said unto Moses, Take unto thee sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum; these sweet spices with pure frankincense: of each shall there be a like weight:
- Leviticus 24:2Command the children of Israel, that they bring unto thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamps to burn continually.
- Leviticus 24:7And thou shalt put pure frankincense upon each row, that it may be on the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
- Job 8:6If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.
- Job 11:4For thou hast said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes.
- Job 16:17Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.
Hebrew dictionary
זַךְ zakh · pure
1) clean, pure 1a) pure 1b) pure, clean, righteous (fig.) 2) the pure one (subst)
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.