ta.hor H2889

טָהוֹר (ta.hor) means “pure” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

טָהוֹר Hebrew · H2889 94 tagged occurrences in 87 verses

Pronunciation guide: taw-hore' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H2889

טָהוֹר · ta.hor · pure

1) pure, clean 1a) clean (ceremonially-of animals) 1b) pure (physically) 1c) pure, clean (morally, ethically)

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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary

or טָהֹר; from H2891 (טָהֵר); pure (in a physical, chemical, ceremonial or moral sense)

KJV glosses: clean, fair, pure(-ness).

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How translators render H2889

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BSB rendering counts
Rendering	Count
clean	12
of pure	12
with pure	6
is clean	5
out of pure	5
the clean	3
unclean	3
who is ceremonially clean	3
a ceremonially clean	2
a clean	2
and the clean	2
ceremonially clean person	2
in a ceremonially clean	2
it with pure	2
the pure	2
a pure heart	1
and clean may eat it	1
and is clean	1
and pure	1
and the pure	1
and were ceremonially clean	1
are flawless	1
both the ceremonially clean	1
ceremonially clean	1
for the clean	1
in a clean	1
in pure	1
is pure	1
must be of pure	1
of clean	1
of pure gold	1
of the pure	1
of those who are pure	1
on one who is clean	1
pure	1
so a clean	1
something is clean	1
the ceremonially clean	1
the man who is ceremonially clean	1
the pure gold	1
the weight of the pure	1

KJV rendering counts
Rendering	Count
pure	19
clean	12
and the clean	7
it with pure	7
not clean	4
in a clean	3
upon the pure	3
a fair	2
all clean	2
and clean	2
and the pure	2
he clean	2
of every clean	2
of pure	2
unto a clean	2
with pure	2
a clean	1
all that be clean	1
also pure	1
and a clean	1
and a pure	1
and of every clean	1
and to the clean	1
between clean	1
but be clean	1
every one that is clean	1
in me a clean	1
of clean	1
of purer	1
of the pure	1
pureness	1
shall be clean	1
shall be thine every one that is clean	1
that is not clean	1
the pure	1
together pure	1
upon him that is clean	1

Verses containing H2889

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Leviticus 24:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
and set them in two rows—six per row—on the table of pure gold before the LORD.
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Numbers 5:28 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But if the woman has not defiled herself and is clean, she will be unaffected and able to conceive children.
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Numbers 9:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But if a man who is ceremonially clean and is not on a journey still fails to observe the Passover, he must be cut off from his people, because he did not present the LORD’s offering at its appointed time. That man will bear the consequences of his sin.
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Numbers 18:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And this is yours as well: the offering of their gifts, along with all the wave offerings of the Israelites. I have given this to you and your sons and daughters as a permanent statute. Every ceremonially clean person in your household may eat it.
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Numbers 18:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The firstfruits of everything in their land that they bring to the LORD will belong to you. Every ceremonially clean person in your household may eat them.
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Numbers 19:9 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Then a man who is ceremonially clean is to gather up the ashes of the heifer and store them in a ceremonially clean place outside the camp. They must be kept by the congregation of Israel for preparing the water of purification; this is for purification from sin.
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Numbers 19:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then a man who is ceremonially clean is to take some hyssop, dip it in the water, and sprinkle the tent, all the furnishings, and the people who were there. He is also to sprinkle the one who touched a bone, a grave, or a person who has died or been slain.
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Numbers 19:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The man who is ceremonially clean is to sprinkle the unclean person on the third day and on the seventh day. After he purifies the unclean person on the seventh day, the one being cleansed must wash his clothes and bathe in water, and that evening he will be clean.
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Deuteronomy 12:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But whenever you want, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your gates, according to the blessing the LORD your God has given you. Both the ceremonially clean and unclean may eat it as they would a gazelle or deer,
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Deuteronomy 12:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Indeed, you may eat it as you would eat a gazelle or deer; both the ceremonially unclean and the clean may eat it.
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Deuteronomy 14:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
You may eat any clean bird,
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Deuteronomy 14:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But you may eat any clean bird.
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Deuteronomy 15:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Eat it within your gates; both the ceremonially unclean and clean may eat it as they would a gazelle or a deer.
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Deuteronomy 23:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
If any man among you becomes unclean because of a nocturnal emission, he must leave the camp and stay outside.
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Source alternate reference: 23.11
1 Samuel 20:26 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Saul said nothing that day because he thought, “Something has happened to David to make him ceremonially unclean—surely he is unclean.”
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1 Chronicles 28:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
the weight of the pure gold for the forks, sprinkling bowls, and pitchers; the weight of each gold dish; the weight of each silver bowl;
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2 Chronicles 3:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The portico at the front, extending across the width of the temple, was twenty cubits long and twenty cubits high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold.
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2 Chronicles 9:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Additionally, the king made a great throne of ivory and overlaid it with pure gold.
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2 Chronicles 13:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Every morning and every evening they present burnt offerings and fragrant incense to the LORD. They set out the rows of showbread on the ceremonially clean table, and every evening they light the lamps of the gold lampstand. We are carrying out the requirements of the LORD our God, while you have forsaken Him.
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2 Chronicles 30:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Since there were many in the assembly who had not consecrated themselves, the Levites were in charge of slaughtering the Passover lambs for every unclean person to consecrate the lambs to the LORD.
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Ezra 6:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
All the priests and Levites had purified themselves and were ceremonially clean. And the Levites slaughtered the Passover lamb for all the exiles, for their priestly brothers, and for themselves.
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Job 14:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Who can bring out clean from unclean? No one!
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Job 17:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Yet a righteous one holds to his way, and the one with clean hands grows stronger.
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Job 28:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Topaz from Cush cannot compare to it, nor can it be valued in pure gold.
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Psalms 12:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The words of the LORD are flawless, like silver refined in a furnace, like gold purified sevenfold.
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Source alternate reference: 12.7
Psalms 19:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The fear of the LORD is pure, enduring forever; the judgments of the LORD are true, being altogether righteous.
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Source alternate reference: 19.10
Psalms 51:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
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Source alternate reference: 51.12
Proverbs 15:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The LORD detests the thoughts of the wicked, but the words of the pure are pleasant to Him.
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Proverbs 22:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He who loves a pure heart and gracious lips will have the king for a friend.
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Proverbs 30:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
There is a generation of those who are pure in their own eyes and yet unwashed of their filth.
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Ecclesiastes 9:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
It is the same for all: There is a common fate for the righteous and the wicked, for the good and the bad, for the clean and the unclean, for the one who sacrifices and the one who does not. As it is for the good, so it is for the sinner; as it is for the one who makes a vow, so it is for the one who refuses to take a vow.
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Isaiah 66:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And they will bring all your brothers from all the nations as a gift to the LORD on horses and chariots and wagons, on mules and camels, to My holy mountain Jerusalem,” says the LORD, “just as the Israelites bring an offering in a clean vessel to the house of the LORD.”
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Ezekiel 22:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Her priests do violence to My law and profane My holy things. They make no distinction between the holy and the common, and they fail to distinguish between the clean and the unclean. They disregard My Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them.
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Ezekiel 36:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
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Ezekiel 44:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence
They are to teach My people the difference between the holy and the common and show them how to discern between the clean and the unclean.
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Zechariah 3:5 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Then I said, “Let them put a clean turban on his head.” So a clean turban was placed on his head, and they clothed him, as the angel of the LORD stood by.
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Malachi 1:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For My name will be great among the nations, from where the sun rises to where it sets. In every place, incense and pure offerings will be presented in My name, because My name will be great among the nations,” says the LORD of Hosts.
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