Pureness
טְהוֹרStrong’s H2890tehor (te-hor)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Tehor is the Hebrew word usually translated “pure of”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he?”
Meaning
- Pureness, cleanness, clean, pureclean (ceremonially-of animals) · pure (physically) · pure, clean (morally, ethically)
How it's translated
- pure of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Habakkuk 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
טְהוֹר tehor · pureness
1) pureness, cleanness, clean, pure 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 “pureness” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PU'RENESS, noun
Clearness; an unmixed state; separation or freedom from any heterogeneous or foreign matter; as the pureness of water or other liquor; the pureness of a metal; the pureness of marl or clay; the pureness of air.
- Freedom from moral turpitude or guilt.
- Simplicity; freedom from mixture or composition.
- Freedom from vicious or improper words, phrases or modes of speech; as pureness of style.
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.