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Brown-Driver-Briggs /Thayer Dictionary - טָהֵר

טָהֵר

H2891

Transliteration: ṭâhêr

Pronunciation: taw-hare'

Definition: be clean


Original: טהר

Transliteration: ṭâhêr

Phonetic: taw-hare'

BDB Definition:

  1. to be clean, be pure
    1. (Qal)
      1. to be clean (physically - of disease)
      2. to be clean ceremonially
      3. to purify, be clean morally, made clean
    2. (Piel)
      1. to cleanse, purify
        1. physically
        2. ceremonially
        3. morally
      2. to pronounce clean
      3. to perform the ceremony of cleansing
    3. (Pual) to be cleansed, be pronounced clean
    4. (Hithpael)
      1. to purify oneself
        1. ceremonially
        2. morally
      2. to present oneself for purification

Origin: a primitive root

TWOT entry: 792

Part(s) of speech: Verb


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