טָהֵר taher

Hebrew word for “be pure” · Strong’s H2891 · used 94 times in 79 verses

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Meaning

1) to be clean, be pure;

How it is translated

Glosses given for taher in context, with how often each is used:

• will be pure 21
• one purifying himself 11
• will declare pure 9
• cleanse 7
• will purify 6
• clean 5
• will be clean 4
• purify 3
• cleansed 3
• will cleanse 3
• had purified themselves 2
• purified 2

Where it is used

Also in 3 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Leviticus 14 (16), Leviticus 13 (9), Numbers 8 (4), 2 Kings 5 (4), 2 Chronicles 29 (3), 2 Chronicles 34 (3), Nehemiah 13 (3), Ezekiel 39 (3), Leviticus 12 (2), Leviticus 15 (2)

Forms

• וטהר 20
• המטהר 12
• וטהרו 8
• יטהר 5
• לטהר 5
• ויטהרו 3
• והטהרו 2
• וטהרה 2
• וטהרת 2
• לטהרם 2

Words used with it

Words that share verses with taher more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• כֹּהֵן kohen “priest” 25
• כָּבַס kavas “to wash” 13
• כִּפֶּר kipher “to atone” 12
• בֶּגֶד beged “garment” 13
• רָחַץ rachats “to wash” 8
• שֶׁבַע sheva “seven” 10
• טָהוֹר tahor “pure” 7
• מַי mayim “water” 10
• לֵוִי leviyyi “Levi” 8
• פָּשָׂה pasah “to spread” 5
• נֶגַע nega “plague” 6
• עוֹר or “skin” 6

Key verses

The verses using taher that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Genesis 35:2 — Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments:
• 2 Kings 5:13 — And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much…
• 2 Chronicles 30:18 — For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim, and Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet did they eat the passover otherwise…
• 2 Chronicles 34:3 — For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge…
• Nehemiah 13:22 — And I commanded the Levites that they should cleanse themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the sabbath day. Remember me, O my…
• Psalms 51:2 — Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
• Psalms 51:7 — Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
• Jeremiah 13:27 — I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, and thine abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem!…
• Ezekiel 24:13 — In thy filthiness is lewdness: because I have purged thee, and thou wast not purged, thou shalt not be purged from thy filthiness any more, till I have caused…
• Ezekiel 36:25 — Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
• Ezekiel 37:23 — Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them…
• Malachi 3:3 — And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.