85 occurrences in 12 translations

'Cleanse' in the Bible

And Jacob saith unto his household, and unto all who are with him, 'Turn aside the gods of the stranger which are in your midst, and cleanse yourselves, and change your garments;

Verse ConceptsFamilies, Examples OfHeads Of The FamilyClean, Spiritual UseReformationIdolsEmployers, Good ExamplesForeign ThingsChanging ClothesClean ClothesPutting Away Other GodsChanging YourselfHinduism

And thou shalt make its pots to cleanse it of the fat, its shovels, and its bowls, and its forks, and its firepans; for all the utensils thereof thou shalt employ copper.

Verse ConceptsBasinsForksShovelsSacred VesselsBronze Items For The TabernacleProvision Of Temple Utensilspot

And thou shalt offer every day a bullock for a sin offering for atonement: and thou shalt cleanse the altar, when thou hast made an atonement for it, and thou shalt anoint it, to sanctify it.

Verse ConceptsAnointing, ObjectsPurificationOnce A DaySetting Up The Bronze AltarAnointing Things

And he shall burn all its fat on the altar, as the fat of the sacrifice of peace-offering; and the priest shall make atonement for him to cleanse him from his sin, and it shall be forgiven him.

Verse ConceptsFat Of The SacrificesPriests AtoningPeace offerings

and he shall bring his trespass-offering to Jehovah for his sin which he hath sinned, a female from the small cattle, a sheep or doe goat, for a sin-offering; and the priest shall make atonement for him to cleanse him from his sin.

Verse ConceptsGoatsFemale AnimalsSheep And GoatsPriests Atoning

And he shall offer the other for a burnt-offering, according to the ordinance. And the priest shall make atonement for him to cleanse him from his sin which he hath sinned, and it shall be forgiven him.

Verse ConceptsPriests Atoning

This is the law of the sore of leprosy in a garment of wool or linen, or in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything of skin, to cleanse it, or to pronounce it unclean.

Verse ConceptsCordsAnimal SkinsClean And UncleanUnclean Thingsmold

And he shall take to cleanse the house two birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:

Verse ConceptsRed CordsCedar WoodClean ObjectsTwo Animals

And he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird, and with the running water, and with the living bird, and with the cedar wood, and with the hyssop, and with the scarlet:

Verse ConceptsAblutionClean Objectsmold

and he shall make atonement for the sanctuary, to cleanse it from the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and from their transgressions in all their sins; and so shall he do for the tent of meeting which dwelleth among them in the midst of their uncleanness.

Verse ConceptsAtonementPriests Atoning

And he shall sprinkle of the blood upon it with his finger seven times, and cleanse it, and hallow it from the uncleanness of the children of Israel.

Verse ConceptsSprinkling BloodSeven TimesClean ObjectsApplied With The Finger

For on that day shall the priest make an atonement for you, to cleanse you, that ye may be clean from all your sins before the LORD.

Verse ConceptsAtonement, Types OfSin, Deliverance From GodBeing Cleansed From SinForgiving Yourselfcleansing

And this shall be an everlasting statute unto you, to make atonement for the children of Israel to cleanse them from all their sins once a year. And he did as Jehovah had commanded Moses.

Verse ConceptsAtonement, Types OfAtonement, in OTOrdinancesWorship, Times ForDoing Repeatedly

Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them.

Verse ConceptsPollutions

And thus shalt thou do unto them, to cleanse them: Sprinkle water of purifying upon them, and let them shave all their flesh, and let them wash their clothes, and so make themselves clean.

Verse ConceptsBodyShavingSprinklingClean Clothes

And after that shall the Levites go in to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation: and thou shalt cleanse them, and offer them for an offering.

Verse ConceptsSwinging

And the Levites were purified, and they washed their clothes; and Aaron offered them as an offering before the LORD; and Aaron made an atonement for them to cleanse them.

Verse ConceptsSwingingClean ClothesBeing Cleansed From SinPriests Atoning

he doth cleanse himself for it on the third day, and on the seventh day he is clean; and if he cleanse not himself on the third day, then on the seventh day he is not clean.

Verse Conceptscleansing

And the man who is unclean, and doth not cleanse himself, even that person hath been cut off from the midst of the assembly; for the sanctuary of Jehovah he hath defiled; water of separation is not sprinkled upon him; he is unclean.

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

And ye, encamp ye at the outside of the camp seven days -- any who hath slain a person, and any who hath come against a pierced one, ye cleanse yourselves on the third day, and on the seventh day -- ye and your captives;

Verse ConceptsQuarantiningHealingQuarantineSeven DaysPeople Being PollutedSeven Days For Legal Purposes

and every garment, and every skin vessel, and every work of goats' hair, and every wooden vessel, ye yourselves cleanse.'

Verse ConceptsDressAnimal SkinsWashing ClothesHairclothClean Clothes

Then all the men of his city shall stone him to death; so you shall remove the evil from among you, and all Israel will hear of it and be afraid.

Verse Conceptsevil, warnings againstBanishmentPunishment, Legal Aspects OfSelf WillChildren, UngratefulFear Is DueInstructions About Stoning

"Sing for joy, nations! Sing for joy, people who belong to him! For he'll avenge the blood of his servants, turn on his adversary, and cleanse both his land and his people."

Verse ConceptsGentiles, In OtAvenger of bloodJoy, Of IsraelRevenge, And RetaliationForeigners Included Among The PeopleGod Atoning

And they gathered their brethren, and sanctified themselves, and came, according to the commandment of the king, by the words of the LORD, to cleanse the house of the LORD.

Verse ConceptsCeremonies

And the priests went into the inner part of the house of the LORD, to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the temple of the LORD into the court of the house of the LORD. And the Levites took it, to carry it out abroad into the brook Kidron.

In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still a youth, Josiah began to seek the God of his ancestor David, and in the twelfth year he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherah poles, the carved images, and the cast images.

Verse ConceptsChildren, Good Examples OfPurgingYouthful Devotionteenager

In the eighteenth year of his reign, in order to cleanse the land and the temple, Josiah sent Shaphan son of Azaliah, along with Maaseiah the governor of the city and the court historian Joah son of Joahaz, to repair the temple of the Lord his God.

Verse ConceptsPurification

and the priests and the Levites are cleansed, and they cleanse the people, and the gates, and the wall.

Verse ConceptsHoliness, Believers' Growth InPurifying Oneself

and I speak, and they cleanse the chambers, and I bring back thither the vessels of the house of God with the present and the frankincense.

Verse Conceptsequipping, spiritualCeremoniesHouse Of GodClean Objects

And I commanded the Levites that they should cleanse themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the sabbath day. Remember me, O my God, concerning this also, and spare me according to the greatness of thy mercy.

Verse ConceptsCommands, in OTPurifying Oneself

Lashes and wounds purge away evil,and beatings cleanse the innermost parts. >

Verse ConceptsPurgingThe Inward BeingWoundsspankingscars

I said in my heart concerning the matter of the sons of man that God might cleanse them, so as to see that they themselves are beasts.

Verse ConceptsGod Testing PeopleEverything Happening For A ReasonTestshumanityordermyself

“Those who [vainly attempt to] sanctify and cleanse themselves to go to the gardens [to sacrifice to idols],Following after one in the center,Who eat swine’s flesh, detestable things and mice,Will come to an end together,” says the Lord.

Verse ConceptsAbominationsGarden, NaturalAbominations, Ceremonial MattersMiceSwineAbstaining From MeatsDesecrationPeople EndedForbidden FoodEating Meatpork

At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A dry wind of the high places in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse,

Verse ConceptseastWeather, As God's JudgmentWinnowingHot WeatherClean ObjectsDirection

Cleanse your heart from wickedness, Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. {How long} will your thoughts of mischief dwell in your inner part?

Verse Conceptsevil, origins ofCleanliness, Metaphorical UseHeart, Fallen And RedeemedJerusalem, Significance OfWashingThoughts Of The WickedContinuing In Sin

And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, whereby they have sinned, and whereby they have transgressed against me.

Verse ConceptsCleanliness, Metaphorical UseRebellion, Against GodBeing Cleansed From SinGod Will ForgiveRebellion against GodGuiltforgivingcleansingrebellion

Cleanse ye the arrows, fill the shields, Stirred up hath Jehovah the spirit of the kings of Madia, For against Babylon His device is to destroy it, For the vengeance of Jehovah it is, The vengeance of His temple.

Verse ConceptsArrows, Described AsShieldsArchers, In ArmiesDestruction Of BabylonBabylon DestroyedSharpeningGod Executes VengeanceGod's PlansArrowsRevenge

And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to cleanse thee; thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all.

Verse ConceptsClothWrapping A BabyMidwifeMedicineSaltSanitation, DisinfectionBabiesSevering Body PartsNew BornSournessJesus Birthnegativitycutting

You mix uncleanness with obscene conduct. I tried to cleanse you, but you are not clean. You will not be cleansed from your uncleanness until I have exhausted my anger on you.

Verse ConceptsLewdnessPurity, Moral And SpiritualAfflictions Of The WickedPurgingPeople Being Unclean

“This is what the Lord God says: On the day I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be inhabited, and the ruins will be rebuilt.

Verse ConceptsBuilding CitiesInhabitationBeing Cleansed From Sin

Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.

Verse ConceptsOffenceBeing Cleansed From SinAvoiding IdolatryI Will Be Their God

And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.

Verse ConceptsFive Months And MoreMonths

And they shall sever out men of continual employment, passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.

Verse ConceptsFive Months And MoreSeeking For Concrete Thingsexploring

And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.

And thou shalt take of the blood thereof, and put it on the four horns of it, and on the four corners of the settle, and upon the border round about: thus shalt thou cleanse and purge it.

Verse ConceptsFour HornsCornersAtoning By Sacrifices

And on the second day thou shalt offer a kid of the goats without blemish for a sin offering; and they shall cleanse the altar, as they did cleanse it with the bullock.

Verse ConceptsGoatsThe Second Day Of The WeekPerfect SacrificesSetting Up The Bronze AltarDay 2Sacrificing Goats

For seven days the priests are to make atonement for the altar and cleanse it. In this way they will consecrate it

Verse ConceptsConsecrationSeven DaysSetting Up The Bronze AltarAtoning By Sacrificescleansing

Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the first month, in the first day of the month, thou shalt take a young bullock without blemish, and cleanse the sanctuary:

Verse ConceptsPerfect SacrificesSacrificing Cattle

For I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed: for the LORD dwelleth in Zion.

Verse ConceptsSin, Deliverance From GodGod Lives In Jerusalemcleansing

He will act like a refiner and purifier of silver and will cleanse the Levites and refine them like gold and silver. Then they will offer the Lord a proper offering.

Verse ConceptsGoldPurificationSilverTestingTrialsGoldsmithsFruits Of RighteousnessPurgingRefining Influences Of AfflictionThings Like SilverThings ImprovedRegulating SacrificesBurnout

and lo, a leper having come, was bowing to him, saying, 'Sir, if thou art willing, thou art able to cleanse me;'

Verse ConceptsBowingKneelingCleansing The BodyChrist WillingHealing Cancercancer

Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.

Verse ConceptsMiracles Of ChristCleaningFirst ActionsInside And OutThe Inward BeingCleanlinessPurityFocusInner Beautycleansingmathpharisees

and there doth come to him a leper, calling on him, and kneeling to him, and saying to him -- 'If thou mayest will, thou art able to cleanse me.'

Verse ConceptsBeggarsChrist Willing

and when they come from the market place, they do not eat unless they cleanse themselves; and there are many other things which they have received in order to observe, such as the washing of cups and pitchers and copper pots.)

Verse ConceptsMarketsBrassPurifying OneselfClean ObjectsHow People Eatmarketing

whose winnowing shovel is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his floor, and will gather the wheat to his storehouse, and the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.'

Verse ConceptsEternal DeathExhortation, Objects OfThreshing FloorToolsWinnowingGathering FoodReapingBurning PlantsGod's Storehousesgirlfriends

And it came to pass, in his being in one of the cities, that lo, a man full of leprosy, and having seen Jesus, having fallen on his face, he besought him, saying, 'Sir, if thou mayest will, thou art able to cleanse me;'

Verse ConceptsBeggarsProstrationBowing Before MessiahChrist Willing

Now the Jewish feast of Passover was near, and many people went up to Jerusalem from the rural areas before the Passover to cleanse themselves ritually.

Verse ConceptsPassoverPurifying OneselfNear The Time Generally

and there is a voice again a second time unto him: 'What God did cleanse, thou, declare not thou common;'

Verse ConceptsAbolish, Temporary ThingsAcceptance, Of One AnotherSpeaking AgainLack Of HolinessGod's Callpork

and a voice did answer me a second time out of the heaven, What God did cleanse, thou -- declare not thou common.

Verse ConceptsGod Speaks From HeavenLack Of Holiness

if, then, any one may cleanse himself from these, he shall be a vessel to honour, sanctified and profitable to the master -- to every good work having been prepared,

Verse ConceptsFutilityGood WorksReadinessSelf DenialChristians, Names OfHoly VesselsPurgingPeople Have HonourUseful PeoplePreparationSanctificationChanging Yourselfcleansinginstrumentsmasterpiece

Blessed (happy, prosperous, to be admired) are those who wash their robes [in the blood of Christ by believing and trusting in Him—the righteous who do His commandments], so that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter by the gates into the city.

Verse ConceptsAvoiding SinGatesHappinessHeaven,  Redeemed CommunityRightsRitual WashingRobesTreesWashingThe Water Of LifeBeginning And EndWashing ClothesEntering LifeMetaphorical TreesBlessed In ServiceHealing Of NationsPromise Of HeavenUniversalism

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Cleanse (85 instances)

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Root Form
Definition
Usage
חטא 
Chata' 
Usage: 238

טהרה 
Tohorah 
Usage: 13

נקה 
Naqah 
Usage: 44

צדק 
Tsadaq 
Usage: 41

תּמריק תּמרק תּמרוּקo 
Tamruwq 
Usage: 4

καθαρίζω 
Katharizo 
Usage: 18

καθαρισμός 
Katharismos 
Usage: 5

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