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Lexicon :: Strong's G2513 - katharos

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καθαρός
Transliteration
katharos (Key)
Pronunciation
kath-ar-os'
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Part of Speech
adjective
Root Word (Etymology)
Of uncertain affinity
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 3:413,381

Trench's Synonyms: lxxxv. εἰλικρινής, καθαρός.

Strong’s Definitions

καθαρός katharós, kath-ar-os'; of uncertain affinity; clean (literally or figuratively):—clean, clear, pure.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 28x

The KJV translates Strong's G2513 in the following manner: pure (17x), clean (10x), clear (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 28x
The KJV translates Strong's G2513 in the following manner: pure (17x), clean (10x), clear (1x).

  1. clean, pure

    1. physically

      1. purified by fire

      2. in a similitude, like a vine cleansed by pruning and so fitted to bear fruit

    2. in a levitical sense

      1. clean, the use of which is not forbidden, imparts no uncleanness

    3. ethically

      1. free from corrupt desire, from sin and guilt

      2. free from every admixture of what is false, sincere genuine

      3. blameless, innocent

      4. unstained with the guilt of anything

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
καθαρός katharós, kath-ar-os'; of uncertain affinity; clean (literally or figuratively):—clean, clear, pure.
STRONGS G2513:
καθαρός, καθαρά, καθαρόν; (akin to Latincastus, incestus, English chaste, chasten; Curtius, § 26; Vanicek, p. 177); from Homer down; the Sept. mostly for טָהור; clean, pure (free from the admixture or adhesion of anything that soils, adulterates, corrupts);
a. physically: Matthew 23:26; Matthew 27:59; Hebrews 10:22 (23); Revelation 15:6; Revelation 19:8, 14, and Rec. in Revelation 22:1; χρυσίον, purified by fire, Revelation 21:18, 21; in a similitude, like a vine cleansed by pruning and so fitted to bear fruit, John 15:3; ὁ λελουμένος... καθαρός ὅλος (where the idea winch Christ expresses figuratively is as follows: 'he whose inmost nature has been renovated does not need radical renewal, but only to be cleansed from every several fault into which he may fall through contact with the unrenewed world'), John 13:10.
b. in a levitical sense; clean, i. e. the use of which is not forbidden, imparts no uncleanness: πάντα καθαρά, Romans 14:20; Titus 1:15.
c. ethically; free from corrupt desire, from sin and guilt: Titus 1:15; ὑμεῖς καθαροί, John 13:10 (11); οἱ καθαροί τῇ καρδία (as respects heart (Winer's Grammar, § 31, 6 a.)), Matthew 5:8 (καθαρός χεῖρας, Herodotus 1, 35; κατά τό σῶμα καί κατά τήν ψυχήν, Plato, Crat., p. 405 b.); free from every admixture of what is false, sincere, ἐκ καθαρᾶς καρδίας, 1 Timothy 1:5; 2 Timothy 2:22, and R G in 1 Peter 1:22; ἐν καθαρά συνειδήσει, 1 Timothy 3:9; 2 Timothy 1:3; genuine (joined with ἀμίαντος) θρησκεία, James 1:27; blameless, innocent, Acts 18:6. Hebraistically with the addition of ἀπό τίνος, pure from, i. e. unstained with the guilt of, anything (Winers Grammar, § 30, 6 a.; Buttmann, 157f (137f)): ἀπό τοῦ αἵματος, Acts 20:26; Susanna 46 Alex., cf. Genesis 24:8; Tobit 3:14; καθαρᾶς ἔχειν τάς χεῖρας ἀπό τοῦ φόνου, Josephus, Antiquities 4, 8, 16; in classical Greek with a simple genitive, as φόνου, Plato, legg. 9, p. 864 e.; cf. Passow, under the word, p. 1528{a}; (Liddell and Scott, under the word, 3); Kühner, § 421, 4 ii., p. 344.
d. in a levitical and ethical sense: πάντα καθαρά ὑμῖν, Luke 11:41, on which see ἔνειμι. (Synonym: see εἰλικρινής; cf. Westcott on 1 John 3:3.)
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Genesis
24:8
Matthew
5:8; 23:26; 27:59
Luke
11:41
John
13:10; 13:10; 15:3
Acts
18:6; 20:26
Romans
14:20
1 Timothy
1:5; 3:9
2 Timothy
1:3; 2:22
Titus
1:15; 1:15
Hebrews
10:22
James
1:27
1 Peter
1:22
1 John
3:3
Revelation
15:6; 19:8; 19:14; 21:18; 21:21; 22:1

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2513 matches the Greek καθαρός (katharos),
which occurs 145 times in 135 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 3 (Gen 7:2–Lev 14:4)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:2 - Take with you seven pairs of all clean animals,[fn] the male and his mate, and a pair of the animals that are not clean, the male and his mate,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:3 - and seven pairs[fn] of the birds of the heavens also, male and female, to keep their offspring alive on the face of all the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:8 - Of clean animals, and of animals that are not clean, and of birds, and of everything that creeps on the ground,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:20 - Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and took some of every clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:5 - Did he not himself say to me, ‘She is my sister’? And she herself said, ‘He is my brother.’ In the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands I have done this.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:6 - Then God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know that you have done this in the integrity of your heart, and it was I who kept you from sinning against me. Therefore I did not let you touch her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:8 - But if the woman is not willing to follow you, then you will be free from this oath of mine; only you must not take my son back there.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:10 - He said, “Let it be as you say: he who is found with it shall be my servant, and the rest of you shall be innocent.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:11 - You shall overlay it with pure gold, inside and outside shall you overlay it, and you shall make on it a molding of gold around it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 25:17

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:17 - “You shall make a mercy seat[fn] of pure gold. Two cubits and a half shall be its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 25:23

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:23 - “You shall make a table of acacia wood. Two cubits shall be its length, a cubit its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:28 - You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold, and the table shall be carried with these.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 25:29

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:29 - And you shall make its plates and dishes for incense, and its flagons and bowls with which to pour drink offerings; you shall make them of pure gold.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 25:31

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:31 - “You shall make a lampstand of pure gold. The lampstand shall be made of hammered work: its base, its stem, its cups, its calyxes, and its flowers shall be of one piece with it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 25:36

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:36 - Their calyxes and their branches shall be of one piece with it, the whole of it a single piece of hammered work of pure gold.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 25:38

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:38 - Its tongs and their trays shall be of pure gold.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 25:39

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:39 - It shall be made, with all these utensils, out of a talent[fn] of pure gold.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 27:20

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:20 - “You shall command the people of Israel that they bring to you pure beaten olive oil for the light, that a lamp may regularly be set up to burn.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:13 - You shall make settings of gold filigree,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:14 - and two chains of pure gold, twisted like cords; and you shall attach the corded chains to the settings.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 28:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:22 - You shall make for the breastpiece twisted chains like cords, of pure gold.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 28:36

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:36 - “You shall make a plate of pure gold and engrave on it, like the engraving of a signet, ‘Holy to the LORD.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:3 - You shall overlay it with pure gold, its top and around its sides and its horns. And you shall make a molding of gold around it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 30:4

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:4 - And you shall make two golden rings for it. Under its molding on two opposite sides of it you shall make them, and they shall be holders for poles with which to carry it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:35 - and make an incense blended as by the perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and holy.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 31:8

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:8 - the table and its utensils, and the pure lampstand with all its utensils, and the altar of incense,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 37:2 - And he overlaid it with pure gold inside and outside, and made a molding of gold around it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 37:10 - He also made the table of acacia wood. Two cubits was its length, a cubit its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 37:29 - He made the holy anointing oil also, and the pure fragrant incense, blended as by the perfumer.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:15 - And they made on the breastpiece twisted chains like cords, of pure gold.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:30 - They made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and wrote on it an inscription, like the engraving of a signet, “Holy to the LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 39:37

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:37 - the lampstand of pure gold and its lamps with the lamps set and all its utensils, and the oil for the light;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:12 - all the rest of the bull—he shall carry outside the camp to a clean place, to the ash heap, and shall burn it up on a fire of wood. On the ash heap it shall be burned up.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:11 - Then he shall take off his garments and put on other garments and carry the ashes outside the camp to a clean place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:19 - “Flesh that touches any unclean thing shall not be eaten. It shall be burned up with fire. All who are clean may eat flesh,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:10 - You are to distinguish between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:32 - And anything on which any of them falls when they are dead shall be unclean, whether it is an article of wood or a garment or a skin or a sack, any article that is used for any purpose. It must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the evening; then it shall be clean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:36

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:36 - Nevertheless, a spring or a cistern holding water shall be clean, but whoever touches a carcass in them shall be unclean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:37

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:37 - And if any part of their carcass falls upon any seed grain that is to be sown, it is clean,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:47

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:47 - to make a distinction between the unclean and the clean and between the living creature that may be eaten and the living creature that may not be eaten.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:6 - And the priest shall examine him again on the seventh day, and if the diseased area has faded and the disease has not spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean; it is only an eruption. And he shall wash his clothes and be clean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:13 - then the priest shall look, and if the leprous disease has covered all his body, he shall pronounce him clean of the disease; it has all turned white, and he is clean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:17 - and the priest shall examine him, and if the disease has turned white, then the priest shall pronounce the diseased person clean; he is clean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:34 - And on the seventh day the priest shall examine the itch, and if the itch has not spread in the skin and it appears to be no deeper than the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean. And he shall wash his clothes and be clean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:37 - But if in his eyes the itch is unchanged and black hair has grown in it, the itch is healed and he is clean, and the priest shall pronounce him clean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:39 - the priest shall look, and if the spots on the skin of the body are of a dull white, it is leukoderma that has broken out in the skin; he is clean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:40 - “If a man’s hair falls out from his head, he is bald; he is clean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:41 - And if a man’s hair falls out from his forehead, he has baldness of the forehead; he is clean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:58 - But the garment, or the warp or the woof, or any article made of skin from which the disease departs when you have washed it, shall then be washed a second time, and be clean.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:4 - the priest shall command them to take for him who is to be cleansed two live[fn] clean birds and cedarwood and scarlet yarn and hyssop.

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