טָהֵר
ṭâhêr · taw-hare'
to be pure (physical sound, clear, unadulterated; Levitically, uncontaminated; morally, innocent or holy)
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root; properly, to be bright; i.e. (by implication)
to be pure (physical sound, clear, unadulterated; Levitically, uncontaminated; morally, innocent or holy)
- to be pure (physical sound, clear, unadulterated
- Levitically, uncontaminated
- morally, innocent or holy)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: be (make, make self, pronounce) clean, cleanse (self), purge, purify(-ier, self).
Letters
- טTet9
Picture: a basket, or something coiled
- Concrete
- basket · coil · snake · container
- Extended
- to surround · to contain · to store · to twist
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to surround and contain › to reveal, behold › the head, the highest
To surround and contain that works to reveal, behold of the head, the highest.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of טָהֵר above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
94 occurrences · 94 OT · 0 NT · 74 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- shall pronounce him clean6 · 13%
- of him that is to be cleansed6 · 13%
- and be clean4 · 9%
- and cleanse3 · 6%
- for him that is to be cleansed3 · 6%
- to cleanse3 · 6%
- and shall be clean2 · 4%
- and it shall be clean2 · 4%
- he shall be clean2 · 4%
- time, and shall be clean1 · 2%
- clean1 · 2%
- he shall pronounce him clean1 · 2%
- for her, and she shall be clean1 · 2%
- to pronounce it clean1 · 2%
- that is to be made clean1 · 2%
- that maketh him clean1 · 2%
- and he shall be clean1 · 2%
- that he may be clean1 · 2%
- and he that is to be cleansed1 · 2%
- and shall pronounce him clean1 · 2%
- upon him that is to be cleansed1 · 2%
- for him, and he shall be clean1 · 2%
- for her; and she shall be cleansed1 · 2%
- is cleansed1 · 2%
- so it shall be cleansed1 · 2%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.