Help QuickNav Adv. Options
NET

NET

Click to Change

Return to Top

Return to Top

Printer Icon

Print

Copy
Copy Options
Strong's
Red Letter
The Blue Letter Bible

Lexicon :: Strong's G2511 - katharizō

Choose a new font size and typeface
καθαρίζω
Transliteration
katharizō (Key)
Pronunciation
kath-ar-id'-zo
Listen
Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
mGNT
31x in 18 unique form(s) TR
30x in 17 unique form(s) LXX
100x in 38 unique form(s)
Dictionary Aids

Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 3:413,381

Strong’s Definitions

καθαρίζω katharízō, kath-ar-id'-zo; from G2513; to cleanse (literally or figuratively):—(make) clean(-se), purge, purify.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 30x

The KJV translates Strong's G2511 in the following manner: cleanse (16x), make clean (5x), be clean (3x), purge (3x), purify (3x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 30x
The KJV translates Strong's G2511 in the following manner: cleanse (16x), make clean (5x), be clean (3x), purge (3x), purify (3x).

  1. to make clean, cleanse

    1. from physical stains and dirt

      1. utensils, food

      2. a leper, to cleanse by curing

      3. to remove by cleansing

    2. in a moral sense

      1. to free from defilement of sin and from faults

      2. to purify from wickedness

      3. to free from guilt of sin, to purify

      4. to consecrate by cleansing or purifying

      5. to consecrate, dedicate

  2. to pronounce clean in a levitical sense

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
καθαρίζω katharízō, kath-ar-id'-zo; from G2513; to cleanse (literally or figuratively):—(make) clean(-se), purge, purify.
STRONGS G2511:
καθαρίζω (Hellenistic for καθαίρω, which classic writings use); Attic future (cf. Buttmann, 37 (32); Winers Grammar, § 13, 1 c.; WH's Appendix, p. 163) καθαριῶ (Hebrews 9:14); 1 aorist ἐκαθάρισα (see below); present passive καθαρίζομαι; 1 aorist passive ἐκαθαρίσθην; perfect passive participle κεκαθαρισμενος (Hebrews 10:2 T Tr WH; on the forms ἐκαθερισθη, T WH in Matthew 8:3; Mark 1:42 (ἐκαθερισεν, Tr in Acts 10:15; Acts 11:9) and κεκαθερισμενος Lachmann in Hebrews 10:2, cf. (Tdf. Proleg., p. 82; WH's Appendix, p. 150); Sturz, De dial. Maced. etc., p. 118; Delitzsch on Hebrews 10:2; Krüger, Part ii. § 2, 2, 6, p. 4; (Buttmann, 29 (25f); Winer's Grammar, 43)); (καθαρός; the Sept. mostly for טִהַר;
1. to make clean, to cleanse;
a. from physical stains and dirt: e. g. utensils, Matthew 23:25 (figuratively, Matthew 23:26); Luke 11:39; food, Mark 7:19; τινα, a leper, to cleanse by curing, Matthew 8:2; Matthew 10:8; Matthew 11:5; Mark 1:40-42; Luke 4:27; Luke 5:12; Luke 7:22; Luke 17:14, 17 (Leviticus 14:8); to remove by cleansing: ἡ λέπρα ἐκαθαρίσθη, Matthew 8:3 (καθαριεῖς τό αἷμα τό ἀναίτιον ἐξ Ἰσραήλ, Deuteronomy 19:13; ἐκαθαριζε τήν περί ταῦτα συνήθειαν, the custom of marrying heathen women, Josephus, Antiquities 11, 5, 4; καθαιρεῖν αἷμα, Homer, Iliad 16, 667; cf. ἐκκαθαίρω).
b. in a moral sense;
α. to free from the defilement of sin and from faults; to purify from wickedness: ἑαυτόν ἀπό μολυσμοῦ σαρκός, 2 Corinthians 7:1; τῇ πίστει τάς καρδίας, Acts 15:9 (καρδίαν ἀπό ἁμαρτίας, Sir. 38:10); τάς χεῖρας, to abstain in future from wrong-doing, James 4:8.
β. to free from the guilt of sin, to purify: τινα ἀπό πάσης ἁμαρτίας, 1 John 1:7; (τινα ἀπό πάσης ἀδικίας, 1 John 1:9); τήν συνείδησιν ἀπό νεκρῶν ἔργων, Hebrews 9:14; τήν ἐκκλησίαν τῷ λουτρῷ τοῦ ὕδατος (instrumental dative), Ephesians 5:26; λαόν ἑαυτῷ, Titus 2:14.
γ. to consecrate by cleansing or purifying: τί ἐν τίνι, dative of instrumentality (Winer's Grammar, 388 (363)), Hebrews 9:22; equivalent to to consecrate, dedicate, τί τίνι (dative of instrumentality), ibid. 23.
2. to pronounce clean in a levitical sense: Acts 10:15; Acts 11:9 (Leviticus 13:13, 17, 23, 28). (Compare: διακαθαρίζω.)
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2006, 2011 by Biblesoft, Inc.
All rights reserved. Used by permission. BibleSoft.com

BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Leviticus
13:13; 13:17; 13:23; 13:28; 14:8
Deuteronomy
19:13
Matthew
8:2; 8:3; 8:3; 10:8; 11:5; 23:25; 23:26
Mark
1:40; 1:41; 1:42; 1:42; 7:19
Luke
4:27; 5:12; 7:22; 11:39; 17:14; 17:17
Acts
10:15; 10:15; 11:9; 11:9; 15:9
2 Corinthians
7:1
Ephesians
5:26
Titus
2:14
Hebrews
9:14; 9:14; 9:22; 10:2; 10:2; 10:2
James
4:8
1 John
1:7; 1:9

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2511 matches the Greek καθαρίζω (katharizō),
which occurs 31 times in 30 verses in the MGNT Greek.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mat 8:2

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 8:2 - And a leper approached, and bowed low before him, saying, "Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean."

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mat 8:3

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 8:3 - He stretched out his hand and touched him saying, "I am willing. Be clean!" Immediately his leprosy was cleansed.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mat 10:8

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 10:8 - Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, cast out demons. Freely you received, freely give.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mat 11:5

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 11:5 - The blind see, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the poor have good news proclaimed to them.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mat 23:25

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 23:25 - "Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mat 23:26

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 23:26 - Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup, so that the outside may become clean too!

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mar 1:40

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 1:40 - Now a leper came to him and fell to his knees, asking for help. "If you are willing, you can make me clean," he said.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mar 1:41

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 1:41 - Moved with compassion, Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, "I am willing. Be clean!"

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mar 1:42

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 1:42 - The leprosy left him at once, and he was clean.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Mar 7:19

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 7:19 - For it does not enter his heart but his stomach, and then goes out into the sewer." (This means all foods are clean.)

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Luk 4:27

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 4:27 - And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha, yet none of them was cleansed except Naaman the Syrian."

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Luk 5:12

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 5:12 - While Jesus was in one of the towns, a man came to him who was covered with leprosy. When he saw Jesus, he bowed down with his face to the ground and begged him, "Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean."

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Luk 5:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 5:13 - So he stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, "I am willing. Be clean!" And immediately the leprosy left him.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Luk 7:22

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 7:22 - So he answered them, "Go tell John what you have seen and heard: The blind see, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, the poor have good news proclaimed to them.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Luk 11:39

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 11:39 - But the Lord said to him, "Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Luk 17:14

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 17:14 - When he saw them he said, "Go and show yourselves to the priests." And as they went along, they were cleansed.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Luk 17:17

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 17:17 - Then Jesus said, "Were not ten cleansed? Where are the other nine?

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Act 10:15

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 10:15 - The voice spoke to him again, a second time, "What God has made clean, you must not consider ritually unclean!"

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Act 11:9

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 11:9 - But the voice replied a second time from heaven, 'What God has made clean, you must not consider ritually unclean!'

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Act 15:9

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 15:9 - and he made no distinction between them and us, cleansing their hearts by faith.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 7:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 7:1 - Therefore, since we have these promises, dear friends, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that could defile the body and the spirit, and thus accomplish holiness out of reverence for God.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eph 5:26

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 5:26 - to sanctify her by cleansing her with the washing of the water by the word,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Tit 2:14

Unchecked Copy BoxTit 2:14 - He gave himself for us to set us free from every kind of lawlessness and to purify for himself a people who are truly his, who are eager to do good.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Heb 9:14

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 9:14 - how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our consciences from dead works to worship the living God.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Heb 9:22

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 9:22 - Indeed according to the law almost everything was purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Heb 9:23

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 9:23 - So it was necessary for the sketches of the things in heaven to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves required better sacrifices than these.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Heb 10:2

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 10:2 - For otherwise would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers would have been purified once for all and so have no further consciousness of sin?

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jas 4:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJas 4:8 - Draw near to God and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and make your hearts pure, you double-minded.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 1Jo 1:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 1:7 - But if we walk in the light as he himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 1Jo 1:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 1:9 - But if we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous, forgiving us our sins and cleansing us from all unrighteousness.
BLB Searches
Search the Bible
NET
  [?]

Advanced Options

Other Searches

Multi-Verse Retrieval
x
NET
Daily Devotionals
x

Blue Letter Bible offers several daily devotional readings in order to help you refocus on Christ and the Gospel of His peace and righteousness.

Daily Bible Reading Plans
x

Recognizing the value of consistent reflection upon the Word of God in order to refocus one's mind and heart upon Christ and His Gospel of peace, we provide several reading plans designed to cover the entire Bible in a year.

One-Year Plans

Two-Year Plan

Translations available: King James Version, New King James Version, New Living Translation, New International Version, English Standard Version, Christian Standard Bible, New American Standard Bible 2020, New American Standard Bible 1995, Legacy Standard Bible 2021, New English Translation, Revised Standard Version, American Standard Version, Young's Literal Translation, Darby Translation, Webster's Bible, Hebrew Names Version, Reina-Valera 1960, Latin Vulgate, Westminster Leningrad Codex, Septuagint, Morphological Greek New Testament, and Textus Receptus.