Purity
טֹ֫הַרStrong’s H2892tohar (to-har)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tohar is the Hebrew word usually translated “purification”, “purification her” and “purity”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness.”
Meaning
- Purity, purification, purifyingpurity · purifying
- Clearness, lustre
How it's translated
- purification 2
- purification her 2
- to purity 1
- from luster his 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 3
- Exodus 1
- Psalms 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Leviticus 12:4And she shall then continue in the blood of her purifying three and thirty days; she shall touch no hallowed thing, nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purifying be fulfilled.
- Leviticus 12:5But if she bear a maid child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her separation: and she shall continue in the blood of her purifying threescore and six days.
- Leviticus 12:6And when the days of her purifying are fulfilled, for a son, or for a daughter, she shall bring a lamb of the first year for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon, or a turtledove, for a sin offering, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, unto the priest:
- Psalms 89:44Thou hast made his glory to cease, and cast his throne down to the ground.
Hebrew dictionary
טֹ֫הַר tohar · purity
1) purity, purification, purifying 1a) purity 1b) purifying
טֳהָר tahar · clearness
clearness, lustre
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “purity” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PU'RITY, noun
[Latin puritas, form purus.]
- Freedom from foreign admixture or heterogeneous matter; as the purity of water, of wine, of spirit; the purity of drugs; the purity of metals.
- Cleanness; freedom from foulness or dirt; as the purity of a garment.
- Freedom from guilt or the defilement of sin; innocence; as purity of heart or life.
- Chastity; freedom from contamination by illicit sexual connection.
All definitions
- Freedom from any sinister or improper views; as the purity of motives or designs.
- Freedom from foreign idioms, from barbarous or improper words or phrases; as purity of style or language.
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.