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Pure

נְקֵאStrong’s H5343

neqe (ne-qe)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Neqe is the Aramaic word usually translated “pure”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire.”
Daniel 7:9 KJV
Meaning
  1. Clean, pure
How it's translated
  • pure 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Daniel 1

1 book in all.

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    Aramaic dictionary

    נְקֵא neqe · pure

    clean, pure

    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.]

    1. 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.
    2. 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
    3. Genuine; real; true; incorrupt; unadulterated; as pure religion. James 1:27
    4. Unmixed; separate from any other subject or from every thing foreign; as pure mathematics.
    All definitions and other forms of “pure”
    1. Free from guilt; guiltless; innocent.
    2. Not vitiated with improper or corrupt words or phrases; as a pure style of discourse or composition.
    3. Disinterested; as pure benevolence.
    4. Chaste; as a pure virgin.
    5. Free from vice or moral turpitude. Titus 1:15
    6. Ceremonially clean; unpolluted. Ezra 6:20
    7. Free from any thing improper; as, his motives are pure
    8. 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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.