Pure
טָהוֹרStrong’s H2889tahor (ta-hor)
Appears in 87 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tahor is the Hebrew word usually translated “pure”, “clean” and “on pure”. It appears in 87 verses of the Old Testament.
“And I said, Let them set a fair mitre upon his head. So they set a fair mitre upon his head, and clothed him with garments. And the angel of the LORD stood by.”
Meaning
- Pure, cleanclean (ceremonially-of animals) · pure (physically) · pure, clean (morally, ethically)
How it's translated
- pure 56
- clean 20
- and the clean 3
- the clean 2
- the pure 2
- and pure 2
- and a clean 2
- on pure 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 28
- Leviticus 20
- Numbers 7
- Deuteronomy 6
- 2 Chronicles 4
- Genesis 3
17 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 7:2Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.
- Genesis 7:8Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
- Genesis 8:20And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
- Exodus 25:11And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, within and without shalt thou overlay it, and shalt make upon it a crown of gold round about.
- Exodus 25:17And thou shalt make a mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof.
- Exodus 25:24And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, and make thereto a crown of gold round about.
All 87 verses, by book
- Exodus 28
- 25:1125:1725:2425:2925:3125:3625:3825:3928:1428:2228:3630:330:3531:837:237:637:1137:1637:1737:2237:2337:2437:2637:2939:1539:2539:3039:37
- Leviticus 20
- 4:126:117:1910:1010:1411:3611:3711:4713:1313:1713:3713:3913:4013:4114:414:5715:820:2524:424:6
- 1 Samuel 1
- 20:26
- 1 Chronicles 1
- 28:17
- Ezra 1
- 6:20
- Ecclesiastes 1
- 9:2
- Isaiah 1
- 66:20
- Zechariah 1
- 3:5
- Malachi 1
- 1:11
Hebrew dictionary
טָהוֹר tahor · pure
1) pure, clean 1a) clean (ceremonially-of animals) 1b) pure (physically) 1c) pure, clean (morally, ethically)
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.