Hebrew verb · H2141
זָכַךְ
zakakzaw-kak'
be clean
4 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: zâkak
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2141is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2141
to be transparent or clean (phys. or morally)
The King James renders it: be (make) clean, be pure(-r).
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
zakak is rendered "be clean". It stands 4 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Three of the uses stand in Job, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Job 9:30If I should wash myself with snow and cleanse my hands with lye,
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
If I should wash myself with snow and cleanse my hands with lye,
Job 9:30וַ֝הֲזִכּ֗וֹתִי
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's four uses are in Job.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- they are pure2
- and I cleansed1
- they were bright1
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| זָכַר | zakar | to remember | Uses230 |
All 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 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
- זַכּ֥וּ2
- וַ֝הֲזִכּ֗וֹתִי1
- זַכּ֤וּ1
The grammar of each form
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural3HVqp3cp
- Hc/Vhq1cs1Hc/Vhq1cs
Job
three uses
If I should wash myself with snow and cleanse my hands with lye,
- וַ֝הֲזִכּ֗וֹתִיvahazikotiHc/Vhq1cstagged: and I cleansed
If God puts no trust in His holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in His eyes,
- זַכּ֥וּzakuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they are pure
If even the moon does not shine, and the stars are not pure in His sight,
- זַכּ֥וּzakuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they are pure
Lamentations
one use
Her dignitaries were brighter than snow, whiter than milk; their bodies were more ruddy than rubies, their appearance like sapphires.
- זַכּ֤וּzakuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they were bright
The letters
Gematria 47· 527 mispar gadol
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.