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Lexicon :: Strong's G2512 - katharismos

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καθαρισμός
Transliteration
katharismos (Key)
Pronunciation
kath-ar-is-mos'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 3:429,381

Strong’s Definitions

καθαρισμός katharismós, kath-ar-is-mos'; from G2511; a washing off, i.e. (ceremonially) ablution, (morally) expiation:—cleansing, + purge, purification(-fying).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 7x

The KJV translates Strong's G2512 in the following manner: cleansing (2x), purifying (2x), be purged (1x), purge (with G4060) (1x), purification (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 7x
The KJV translates Strong's G2512 in the following manner: cleansing (2x), purifying (2x), be purged (1x), purge (with G4060) (1x), purification (1x).

  1. a cleansing, purification, a ritual purgation or washing

    1. of the washing of the Jews before and after their meals

    2. of levitical purification of women after childbirth

    3. a cleansing from the guilt of sins wrought by the expiatory sacrifice of Christ

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
καθαρισμός katharismós, kath-ar-is-mos'; from G2511; a washing off, i.e. (ceremonially) ablution, (morally) expiation:—cleansing, + purge, purification(-fying).
STRONGS G2512:
καθαρισμός, καθαρισμοῦ, ὁ (καθαρίζω), a cleansing, purification; a ritual purgation or washing (Vulg.purgatio, pnrifcatio, emundatio): used with a genitive of the subjunctive, τῶν Ἰουδαίων, of the washings of the Jews before and after their meals, John 2:6; without a genitive, of baptism (a symbol of moral cleansing), John 3:25; with a genitive of the object, and that a person — of the levitical purification of women after childbirth, Luke 2:22; and of lepers, Mark 1:44; Luke 5:14; with a genitive of the thing, ἁμαρτιῶν or ἁμαρτημάτων, a cleansing from the guilt of sins (see καθαρίζω, 1 b. β.): wrought now by baptism, 2 Peter 1:9, now by the expiatory sacrifice of Christ, Hebrews 1:3 on which cf. Kurtz, Commentary, p. 70; (Exodus 30:10; τῆς ἁμαρτίας μου, Job 7:21; of an atonement, Lucian, asin. 22).
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Exodus
30:10
Job
7:21
Mark
1:44
Luke
2:22; 5:14
John
2:6; 3:25
Hebrews
1:3
2 Peter
1:9

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2512 matches the Greek καθαρισμός (katharismos),
which occurs 7 times in 7 verses in the TR Greek.

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telling him, “See that you say nothing to anyone; but go and show yourself to the priest, and offer what Moses commanded for your cleansing, as a testimony to them.”[fn]

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And when the days of their purification according to the law of Moses were finished, they brought him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord

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Then he ordered him to tell no one: “But go and show yourself to the priest, and offer what Moses commanded for your cleansing as a testimony to them.”

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Now six stone water jars had been set there for Jewish purification. Each contained twenty or thirty gallons.[fn]

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Then a dispute arose between John’s disciples and a Jew[fn] about purification.

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The Son is the radiance[fn] of God’s glory and the exact expression[fn] of his nature, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After making purification for sins,[fn] he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.[fn]

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The person who lacks these things is blind and shortsighted and has forgotten the cleansing from his past sins.

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