11 occurrences in 12 translations

'Purify' in the Bible

"Take the descendants of Levi from the Israelis and purify them.

Verse ConceptsPollutions

This is what you must do to them for their purification: Sprinkle them with the purification water. Have them shave their entire bodies and wash their clothes, and so purify themselves.

Verse ConceptsBodyShavingSprinklingClean Clothes

And after this the Levites will come to serve [at] the tent of assembly, and you will purify them, and you {will offer} them [as] a wave offering.

Verse ConceptsSwinging

The descendants of Levi therefore purified themselves, washed their clothes, and then Aaron presented them as wave offerings to the LORD. Aaron provided atonement for them to purify them.

Verse ConceptsSwingingClean ClothesBeing Cleansed From SinPriests Atoning

“Tell the people: Purify yourselves in readiness for tomorrow, and you will eat meat because you cried before the Lord: ‘Who will feed us meat? We really had it good in Egypt.’ The Lord will give you meat and you will eat.

Verse ConceptsMaking People HolyEating Meat

He shall purify himself with it on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean: but if he purify not himself the third day, then the seventh day he shall not be clean.

Verse Conceptscleansing

Anyone who touches a body of a person who has died, and does not purify himself, defiles the tabernacle of the Lord. That person will be cut off from Israel. He remains unclean because the water for impurity has not been sprinkled on him, and his uncleanness is still on him.

Verse ConceptsHoliness,  Worldly SeparationRitual WashingSprinklingContaminationSprinkling WaterTouching Unclean ThingsPolluting Holy PlacesThose To Be Cut Off From Israel

And the clean person shall sprinkle upon the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day: and on the seventh day he shall purify himself, and wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at even.

Verse ConceptsEveningSprinkling WaterClean ClothesUnclean Until Evening

But the man that shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from among the congregation, because he hath defiled the sanctuary of the LORD: the water of separation hath not been sprinkled upon him; he is unclean.

Verse ConceptsRitual WashingSanctuaryExcommunicationDisfellowshipSprinkling WaterPolluting Holy PlacesThose To Be Cut Off From Israel

And do ye abide without the camp seven days: whosoever hath killed any person, and whosoever hath touched any slain, purify both yourselves and your captives on the third day, and on the seventh day.

Verse ConceptsQuarantiningHealingQuarantineSeven DaysPeople Being PollutedSeven Days For Legal Purposes

And purify all your raiment, and all that is made of skins, and all work of goats' hair, and all things made of wood.

Verse ConceptsDressAnimal SkinsWashing ClothesHairclothClean Clothes

Bible Theasaurus

Distill (3 instances)
Purge (41 instances)
Purify (64 instances)
Sanctify (97 instances)

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Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
G48
ἁγνίζω 
Hagnizo 
Usage: 7

καθαρίζω 
Katharizo 
Usage: 18

καθαρισμός 
Katharismos 
Usage: 5

καθαρότης 
Katharotes 
Usage: 1

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