Purifying
טׇהֳרָהStrong’s H2893tohorah (to-ho-rah)
Appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tohorah is the Hebrew word usually translated “purification his”, “purification” and “according to purification of”. It appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament.
“But if the scab spread much abroad in the skin, after that he hath been seen of the priest for his cleansing, he shall be seen of the priest again:”
Meaning
- Purifying, cleansing, purification, purity, cleannesspurifying, menstruation · cleansing, purification
How it's translated
- for purification his 4
- purification his 4
- purification 2
- according to purification of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 6
- Numbers 1
- 1 Chronicles 1
- 2 Chronicles 1
- Nehemiah 1
- Ezekiel 1
6 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Leviticus 13:35But if the scall spread much in the skin after his cleansing;
- Leviticus 14:2This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: He shall be brought unto the priest:
- Leviticus 14:23And he shall bring them on the eighth day for his cleansing unto the priest, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, before the LORD.
- Leviticus 14:32This is the law of him in whom is the plague of leprosy, whose hand is not able to get that which pertaineth to his cleansing.
- Leviticus 15:13And when he that hath an issue is cleansed of his issue; then he shall number to himself seven days for his cleansing, and wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in running water, and shall be clean.
- Numbers 6:9And if any man die very suddenly by him, and he hath defiled the head of his consecration; then he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing, on the seventh day shall he shave it.
Hebrew dictionary
טׇהֳרָה tohorah · purifying
1) purifying, cleansing, purification, purity, cleanness 1a) purifying, menstruation 1b) cleansing, purification
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “purifying” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PU'RIFYING, participle passive
Removing foreign or heterogeneous matter; cleansing from pollution; fining; making clear.
All definitions and other forms of “purifying”
PU'RIFYING, noun
The act or operation of making pure or of cleansing from extraneous matter or from pollution.
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.