Greek noun (masculine) · G2512
καθαρισμός
katharismoskath-ar-is-mos'
cleansing
7 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: katharismós
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G2512is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 27New Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G2512
a washing off, i.e. (ceremonially) ablution, (morally) expiation
The King James renders it: cleansing, + purge, purification(-fying).
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
katharismos is rendered "cleansing". It stands 7 times in the Greek text, across five books.
- Two of the uses stand in Luke, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Mark 1:44“See that you don’t tell anyone. But go, show yourself to the priest and present the offering Moses prescribed for your cleansing, as a testimony to them.”
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
“See that you don’t tell anyone. But go, show yourself to the priest and present the offering Moses prescribed for your cleansing, as a testimony to them.”
Mark 1:44καθαρισμοῦ
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- purification5
- cleansing2
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 7, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- καθαρισμοῦ5
- καθαρισμὸν2
The grammar of each form
- noun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singular5N-GSM
- noun · accusative (object) · masculine singular2N-ASM
Mark
one use
“See that you don’t tell anyone. But go, show yourself to the priest and present the offering Moses prescribed for your cleansing, as a testimony to them.”
- καθαρισμοῦkatharismounoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singulartagged: cleansing
Luke
two uses
And when the time of purification according to the Law of Moses was complete, His parents brought Him to Jerusalem to present Him to the Lord
- καθαρισμοῦkatharismounoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singulartagged: purification
“Do not tell anyone,” Jesus instructed him. “But go, show yourself to the priest and present the offering Moses prescribed for your cleansing, as a testimony to them.”
- καθαρισμοῦkatharismounoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singulartagged: cleansing
John
two uses
Now six stone water jars had been set there for the Jewish rites of purification. Each could hold from twenty to thirty gallons.
- καθαρισμὸνkatharismonnoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: purification
Then a dispute arose between John’s disciples and a certain Jew over the issue of ceremonial washing.
- καθαρισμοῦkatharismounoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singulartagged: purification
Hebrews
one use
The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of His nature, upholding all things by His powerful word. After He had provided purification for sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.
- καθαρισμὸνkatharismonnoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: purification
2 Peter
one use
But whoever lacks these traits is nearsighted to the point of blindness, having forgotten that he has been cleansed from his past sins.
- καθαρισμοῦkatharismounoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singulartagged: purification
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.