טָהוֹרṭâhôwr
clean, pure
Pronunciation: taw-hore' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H2889
Meanings
1. clean, ceremonially (Genesis 7:2; Genesis 7:8; Genesis 8:20)
2. pure, physically (Exodus 25:11; Exodus 25:17; Exodus 25:24)
3. pure, clean, ethically (Proverbs 30:12; Ecclesiastes 9:2; Job 14:4)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 94 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 7:2 Take with you seven pairs—male and female—of each animal I have approved for eating and for sacrifice, and take one pair of each of the others.
- Genesis 7:8 With them were all the various kinds of animals—those approved for eating and for sacrifice and those that were not—along with all the birds and the small animals that scurry along the ground.
- Genesis 8:20 Then Noah built an altar to the Lord, and there he sacrificed as burnt offerings the animals and birds that had been approved for that purpose.
- Exodus 25:11 Overlay it inside and outside with pure gold, and run a molding of gold all around it.
- Exodus 25:17 “Then make the Ark’s cover—the place of atonement—from pure gold. It must be 45 inches long and 27 inches wide.
- Exodus 25:24 Overlay it with pure gold and run a gold molding around the edge.
See every passage
- Genesis 7:2, 7:8, 8:20
- Exodus 25:11, 25:17, 25:24, 25:29, 25:31, 25:36, 25:38, 25:39, 28:14, 28:22, 28:36, 30:3, 30:35, 31:8, 37:2, 37:6, 37:11, 37:16, 37:17, 37:22, 37:23, 37:24, 37:26, 37:29, 39:15, 39:25, 39:30, 39:37
- Leviticus 4:12, 6:11, 7:19, 10:10, 10:14, 11:36, 11:37, 11:47, 13:13, 13:17, 13:37, 13:39, 13:40, 13:41, 14:4, 14:57, 15:8, 20:25, 24:4, 24:6
- Numbers 5:28, 9:13, 18:11, 18:13, 19:9, 19:18, 19:19
- Deuteronomy 12:15, 12:22, 14:11, 14:20, 15:22, 23:10
- 1 Samuel 20:26
- 1 Chronicles 28:17
- 2 Chronicles 3:4, 9:17, 13:11, 30:17
- Ezra 6:20
- Job 14:4, 17:9, 28:19
- Psalms 12:6, 19:9, 51:10
- Proverbs 15:26, 22:11, 30:12
- Ecclesiastes 9:2
- Isaiah 66:20
- Ezekiel 22:26, 36:25, 44:23
- Zechariah 3:5
- Malachi 1:11
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).