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Lexicon :: Strong's G2511 - katharizō

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καθαρίζω
Transliteration
katharizō (Key)
Pronunciation
kath-ar-id'-zo
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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)
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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.
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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 100 times in 94 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 35:2–Num 31:23)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:2 - So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods which are among you and cleanse yourselves and change your garments;

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“You shall not take the name of Yahweh your God in vain, for Yahweh will not [fn]leave him unpunished who takes His name in vain.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:36 - “Each day you shall offer a bull as a sin offering for atonement, and you shall [fn]purify the altar when you make atonement [fn]for it, and you shall anoint it to set it apart as holy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:37 - “For seven days you shall make atonement [fn]for the altar and set it apart as holy; then the altar shall be most holy, and whatever touches the altar shall be holy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:10 - “Aaron shall make atonement on its horns once a year; he shall make atonement on it with the blood of the sin offering of atonement once a year throughout your generations. It is most holy to Yahweh.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:7 - who keeps lovingkindness for thousands, who forgives iniquity, transgression, and sin; yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished, visiting the iniquity of fathers on the children and on the grandchildren to the third and fourth generations.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:15 - Next [fn]Moses slaughtered it and took the blood and with his finger put some of it around on the horns of the altar and purified the altar. Then he poured out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar and set it apart as holy, to make atonement for it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 12:7 - ‘Then he shall bring it near before Yahweh and make atonement for her, and she shall be cleansed from the [fn]flow of her blood. This is the law for her who bears a child, whether a male or a female.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 12:8 - ‘But if [fn]she cannot afford a lamb, then she shall take two turtledoves or two young pigeons, the one for a burnt offering and the other for a sin offering; and the priest shall make atonement for her, and she will be clean.’”

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:6 - “And the priest shall look at him again on the seventh day, and if the infection has faded and the mark has not spread on the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean; it is only a scab. And he shall wash his clothes and be clean.

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“But if the scab spreads farther on the skin after he has shown himself to the priest for his cleansing, he shall appear again to the priest.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:13 - then the priest shall look, and behold, if the leprosy has covered all his [fn]body, he shall pronounce clean him who has the infection; it has all turned white, and he is clean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:17 - and the priest shall look at him, and behold, if the infection has turned to white, then the priest shall pronounce clean him who has the infection; he is clean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:23 - “But if the bright spot remains in its place and does not spread, it is only the scar of the boil; and the priest shall pronounce him clean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:28 - “But if the bright spot remains in its place and has not spread in the skin but is faded, it is the swelling from the burn; and the priest shall pronounce him clean, for it is only the scar of the burn.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:34 - “Then on the seventh day the priest shall look at the scale, and if the scale has not spread in the skin and it appears to be no deeper than the skin, the priest shall pronounce him clean; and he shall wash his clothes and be clean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:35 - “But if the scale spreads farther in the skin after his cleansing,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:37 - “If in his sight the scale has remained, however, and black hair has grown in it, the scale has healed, he is clean; and the priest shall pronounce him clean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:59 -

This is the law for the mark of leprosy in a garment of wool or linen, whether in the warp or in the woof or in any article of leather, for pronouncing it clean or unclean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:2 - “This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing. Now he shall be brought to the priest,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:4 - then the priest shall give a command to take two live clean birds and cedar wood and a [fn]scarlet string and hyssop for the one who is to be cleansed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:7 - “He shall then sprinkle seven times the one who is to be cleansed from the leprosy and shall pronounce him clean, and he shall let the live bird go free over the open field.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:8 - “The one to be cleansed shall then wash his clothes and shave off all his hair and bathe in water and be clean. Now afterward, he may enter the camp, but he shall stay outside his tent for seven days.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:11 - and the priest who pronounces him clean shall present the man to be cleansed as well as [fn]these things before Yahweh at the doorway of the tent of meeting.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:14 - “The priest shall then take some of the blood of the guilt offering, and the priest shall put it on the lobe of the right ear of the one to be cleansed and on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:17 - “Of the remaining oil which is in his palm, the priest shall put some on the right ear lobe of the one to be cleansed and on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot, on the blood of the guilt offering;

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 14:18

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:18 - but the rest of the oil that is in the priest’s palm, he shall put on the head of the one to be cleansed. So the priest shall make atonement on his behalf before Yahweh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 14:19

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:19 - “The priest shall next offer the sin offering and make atonement for the one to be cleansed from his uncleanness. Then afterward, he shall slaughter the burnt offering.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:20 - “And the priest shall offer up the burnt offering and the grain offering on the altar. Thus the priest shall make atonement for him, and he will be clean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 14:23

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:23 - “Then the eighth day he shall bring them for his cleansing to the priest, at the doorway of the tent of meeting, before Yahweh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 14:25

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:25 - “Next he shall slaughter the lamb of the guilt offering; and the priest shall take some of the blood of the guilt offering and put it on the lobe of the right ear of the one to be cleansed and on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:28 - “The priest shall then put some of the oil that is in his palm on the lobe of the right ear of the one to be cleansed and on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot, on the place of the blood of the guilt offering.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:29 - “Moreover, the rest of the oil that is in the priest’s palm he shall put on the head of the one to be cleansed, to make atonement on his behalf before Yahweh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 14:31

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:31 - “He shall offer what [fn]he can afford, the one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering, together with the grain offering. So the priest shall make atonement before Yahweh on behalf of the one to be cleansed.

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“If, on the other hand, the priest comes in and looks again, and the mark has not indeed spread in the house after the house has been replastered, then the priest shall pronounce the house clean because the mark has [fn]not reappeared.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:57 - to instruct [fn]when they are unclean and [fn]when they are clean. This is the law of leprosy.

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‘Now when the man with the discharge becomes cleansed from his discharge, then he shall count off for himself seven days for his cleansing; he shall then wash his clothes and bathe his body in [fn]running water and will become clean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:28 - ‘Now if she becomes clean from her discharge, she shall count off for herself seven days; and afterward she will be clean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 16:19

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:19 - “With his finger he shall sprinkle some of the blood on it seven times and cleanse it and set it apart as holy from the uncleanness of the sons of Israel.

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“And when he finishes making atonement for the holy place and the tent of meeting and the altar, he shall bring near the live goat.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 16:30

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:30 - for it is on this day that [fn]atonement shall be made for you to cleanse you; you will be clean from all your sins before Yahweh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 22:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:4 - ‘No man of the seed of Aaron, who is a leper or who has a discharge, may eat of the holy gifts until he is clean. And if one touches anything made unclean by a corpse, or if a man has a seminal emission,

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‘But if a man dies very suddenly beside him and he defiles the head of hair during his Nazirite vow, then he shall shave his head on the day when he becomes clean; he shall shave it on the seventh day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:15 - “Then after that the Levites may go in to serve the tent of meeting. But you shall cleanse them and present them as a wave offering;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:15 - So Miriam was shut up outside the camp for seven days, and the people did not set out until Miriam was received again.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:18 - ‘Yahweh is slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness, forgiving iniquity and transgression; but He will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children [fn]to the third and the fourth generations.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:5 - “But if her father should forbid her on the day he hears of it, none of her vows or her obligations by which she has bound herself shall stand; and Yahweh will pardon her because her father had forbidden her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:8 - “But if, on the day her husband hears of it, he forbids her, then he shall annul her vow which [fn]she is under and the rash statement of her lips by which she has bound herself; and Yahweh will pardon her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:12 - “But if her husband indeed annuls them on the day he hears them, then whatever proceeds out of her lips concerning her vows or concerning the obligation of herself shall not stand; her husband has annulled them, and Yahweh will pardon her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:23 - everything that can stand the fire, you shall pass through the fire, and it shall be clean, but it shall be purified with water for impurity. But whatever cannot stand the fire you shall pass through the water.

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