Be clean
זָכַךְStrong’s H2141zakhakh (za-khakh)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Zakhakh is the Hebrew word usually translated “are pure”, “cleansed” and “were bright”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;”
Meaning
- To be pure, be bright, be clean, be bright, clean(Qal) · (Hiphil) to cleanse, make cleanse, make clean
How it's translated
- they are pure 2
- and i cleansed 1
- they were bright 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 3
- Lamentations 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Job 15:15Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.
- Job 25:5Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight.
- Lamentations 4:7Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was of sapphire:
Hebrew dictionary
זָכַךְ zakhakh · be clean
1) to be pure, be bright, be clean, be bright, clean 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to be bright, be shining 1a2) to be clean, be pure 1b) (Hiphil) to cleanse, make cleanse, make clean
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “cleansed” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CLEANSED, participle passive
Purified; made clean; purged; healed.
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.