טָהֵר ṭâhêr

Meaning

to be pure (physical sound, clear, unadulterated; Levitically, uncontaminated; morally, innocent or holy)

In the King James Version: be (make, make self, pronounce) clean, cleanse (self), purge, purify(-ier, self).

Derivation: a primitive root; properly, to be bright; i.e. (by implication)

Where it is used

• Nehemiah 13:30 Thus I purified the priests and Levites from everything foreign, and I assigned specific duties to each of the priests and Levites.
• Job 4:17 ‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker?
• Job 37:21 Now no one can gaze at the sun when it is bright in the skies after the wind has swept them clean.
• Psalms 51:2 Wash me clean of my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin.
• Psalms 51:7 Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
• Proverbs 20:9 Who can say, “I have kept my heart pure; I am cleansed from my sin”?
• Isaiah 66:17 “Those who consecrate and purify themselves to enter the groves—to follow one in the center of those who eat the flesh of swine and vermin and rats—will perish together,” declares the LORD.
• Jeremiah 13:27 Your adulteries and lustful neighings, your shameless prostitution on the hills and in the fields—I have seen your detestable acts. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! How long will you remain unclean?”
• Jeremiah 33:8 And I will cleanse them from all the iniquity they have committed against Me, and will forgive all their sins of rebellion against Me.
• Ezekiel 22:24 “Son of man, say to her, ‘In the day of indignation, you are a land that has not been cleansed, upon which no rain has fallen.’
• Ezekiel 24:13 Because of the indecency of your uncleanness I tried to cleanse you, but you would not be purified from your filthiness. You will not be pure again until My wrath against you has subsided.
• Ezekiel 36:25 I will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your idols.
• Ezekiel 36:33 This is what the Lord GOD says: On the day I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be resettled and the ruins to be rebuilt.
• Ezekiel 37:23 They will no longer defile themselves with their idols or detestable images, or with any of their transgressions. I will save them from all their apostasies by which they sinned, and I will cleanse them. Then they will be My people, and I will be their God.
• Ezekiel 39:12 For seven months the house of Israel will be burying them in order to cleanse the land.
• Ezekiel 39:14 And men will be employed to continually pass through the land to cleanse it by burying the invaders who remain on the ground. At the end of the seven months they will begin their search.
• Ezekiel 39:16 (Even the city will be named Hamonah.) And so they will cleanse the land.
• Ezekiel 43:26 For seven days the priests are to make atonement for the altar and cleanse it; so they shall consecrate it.
• Malachi 3:3 And He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver; He will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver. Then they will present offerings to the LORD in righteousness.