Hebrew adjective · H2889
טָהוֹר
tahortaw-hore'
pure
94 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ṭâhôwr
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2889is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 17 of 39Old Testament books
- 47spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2889
pure (in a physical, chemical, ceremonial or moral sense)
The King James renders it: clean, fair, pure(-ness).
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
tahor is rendered "pure". It stands 94 times in the Hebrew text, across seventeen books.
- Twenty-eight of the uses stand in Exodus, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 7:2You are to take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate; a pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate;
- The Greek text spells it forty-seven different ways.
The first use
You are to take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate; a pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate;
Genesis 7:2הַטְּהוֹרָ֗ה
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Twenty-eight of the word's ninety-four uses are in Exodus.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- pure51
- clean14
- the clean8
- the pure7
- and the clean3
- and a clean2
- a clean1
- a pure1
- and clean1
- and clean of1
- and pure1
- and the pure1
and 3 more, 94 uses in all
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.
The words it stands beside
All 94, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
47 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
- טָה֑וֹר13
- טָה֖וֹר10
- טָהֽוֹר׃9
- טָה֥וֹר8
- טָה֔וֹר4
- טָה֗וֹר3
- הַטְּהוֹרָ֗ה2
- הַטָּהֹ֑ר2
- וְהַטָּהוֹר֙2
- טָ֭הוֹר2
- טָה֣וֹר2
- לְטָה֖וֹר2
and 35 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- adjective · masculine singular58HAamsa
- the definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine singular8HTd/Aamsa
- the definite article (“the”) + adjective · feminine singular7HTd/Aafsa
- adjective · feminine singular5HAafsa
- conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine singular3HC/Td/Aamsa
- adjective · feminine plural2HAafpa
- adjective · masculine plural2HAampa
- preposition + adjective · masculine singular2HR/Aamsa
- preposition with the article + adjective · masculine singular2HRd/Aamsa
- adjective · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HAamsc
- conjunction (“and”) + adjective · feminine singular1HC/Aafsa
- conjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine plural1HC/Aampa
Genesis
six uses
You are to take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate; a pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate;
- הַטְּהוֹרָ֗הhatehorahthe definite article (“the”) + adjective · feminine singulartagged: the clean
- טְהֹרָ֥הtehorahadjective · feminine singulartagged: clean
The clean and unclean animals, the birds, and everything that crawls along the ground
- הַטְּהוֹרָ֔הhatehorahthe definite article (“the”) + adjective · feminine singulartagged: the clean
- טְהֹרָ֑הtehorahadjective · feminine singulartagged: clean
Then Noah built an altar to the LORD. And taking from every kind of clean animal and clean bird, he offered burnt offerings on the altar.
- הַטְּהוֹרָ֗הhatehorahthe definite article (“the”) + adjective · feminine singulartagged: the clean
- הַטָּהֹ֔רhatahorthe definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine singulartagged: the clean
Exodus
twenty-eight uses
Overlay it with pure gold both inside and out, and make a gold molding around it.
- טָה֔וֹרtahoradjective · masculine singulartagged: pure
And you are to construct a mercy seat of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.
- טָה֑וֹרtahoradjective · masculine singulartagged: pure
Overlay it with pure gold and make a gold molding around it.
- טָה֑וֹרtahoradjective · masculine singulartagged: pure
You are also to make the plates and dishes, as well as the pitchers and bowls for pouring drink offerings. Make them out of pure gold.
- טָה֖וֹרtahoradjective · masculine singulartagged: pure
Then you are to make a lampstand of pure, hammered gold. It shall be made of one piece, including its base and shaft, its cups, and its buds and petals.
- טָה֑וֹרtahoradjective · masculine singulartagged: pure
The buds and branches are to be all of one piece with the lampstand, hammered out of pure gold.
- טָהֽוֹר׃tahoradjective · masculine singulartagged: pure
The wick trimmers and their trays must be of pure gold.
- טָהֽוֹר׃tahoradjective · masculine singulartagged: pure
The lampstand and all these utensils shall be made from a talent of pure gold.
- טָה֖וֹרtahoradjective · masculine singulartagged: pure
and two chains of pure gold, made of braided cord work; and attach these chains to the settings.
- טָה֔וֹרtahoradjective · masculine singulartagged: pure
For the breastpiece, make braided chains like cords of pure gold.
- טָהֽוֹר׃tahoradjective · masculine singulartagged: pure
You are to make a plate of pure gold and engrave on it as on a seal: HOLY TO THE LORD.
- טָה֑וֹרtahoradjective · masculine singulartagged: pure
Overlay with pure gold the top and all the sides and horns, and make a molding of gold around it.
- טָה֗וֹרtahoradjective · masculine singulartagged: pure
and make a fragrant blend of incense, the work of a perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and holy.
- טָה֥וֹרtahoradjective · masculine singulartagged: pure
the table with its utensils, the pure gold lampstand with all its utensils, the altar of incense,
- הַטְּהֹרָ֖הhatehorahthe definite article (“the”) + adjective · feminine singulartagged: the pure
He overlaid it with pure gold, both inside and out, and made a gold molding around it.
- טָה֖וֹרtahoradjective · masculine singulartagged: pure
He constructed a mercy seat of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.
- טָה֑וֹרtahoradjective · masculine singulartagged: pure
He overlaid it with pure gold and made a gold molding around it.
- טָה֑וֹרtahoradjective · masculine singulartagged: pure
He also made the utensils for the table out of pure gold: its plates and dishes, as well as its bowls and pitchers for pouring drink offerings.
- טָהֽוֹר׃ פtahoradjective · masculine singulartagged: pure
Then he made the lampstand out of pure hammered gold, all of one piece: its base and shaft, its cups, and its buds and petals.
- טָה֑וֹרtahoradjective · masculine singulartagged: pure
The buds and branches were all of one piece with the lampstand, hammered out of pure gold.
- טָהֽוֹר׃tahoradjective · masculine singulartagged: pure
He also made its seven lamps, its wick trimmers, and trays of pure gold.
- טָהֽוֹר׃tahoradjective · masculine singulartagged: pure
He made the lampstand and all its utensils from a talent of pure gold.
- טָה֖וֹרtahoradjective · masculine singulartagged: pure
And he overlaid with pure gold the top and all the sides and horns. Then he made a molding of gold around it.
- טָה֗וֹרtahoradjective · masculine singulartagged: pure
He also made the sacred anointing oil and the pure, fragrant incense, the work of a perfumer.
- טָה֑וֹרtahoradjective · masculine singulartagged: pure
For the breastpiece they made braided chains like cords of pure gold.
- טָהֽוֹר׃tahoradjective · masculine singulartagged: pure
They also made bells of pure gold and attached them around the hem between the pomegranates,
- טָה֑וֹרtahoradjective · masculine singulartagged: pure
They also made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and they engraved on it, like an inscription on a seal: HOLY TO THE LORD.
- טָה֑וֹרtahoradjective · masculine singulartagged: pure
the pure gold lampstand with its row of lamps and all its utensils, as well as the oil for the light;
- הַטְּהֹרָ֜הhatehorahthe definite article (“the”) + adjective · feminine singulartagged: the pure
Leviticus
twenty-one uses
all the rest of the bull—he must take outside the camp to a ceremonially clean place where the ashes are poured out, and there he must burn it on a wood fire on the ash heap.
- טָהוֹר֙tahoradjective · masculine singulartagged: pure
Then he must take off his garments, put on other clothes, and carry the ashes outside the camp to a ceremonially clean place.
- טָהֽוֹר׃tahoradjective · masculine singulartagged: pure
Meat that touches anything unclean must not be eaten; it is to be burned up. As for any other meat, anyone who is ceremonially clean may eat it.
- טָה֖וֹרtahoradjective · masculine singulartagged: pure
You must distinguish between the holy and the common, between the clean and the unclean,
- הַטָּהֽוֹר׃hatahorthe definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine singulartagged: the clean
And you and your sons and daughters may eat the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the contribution in a ceremonially clean place, because these portions have been assigned to you and your children from the peace offerings of the sons of Israel.
- טָה֔וֹרtahoradjective · masculine singulartagged: pure
Nevertheless, a spring or cistern containing water will remain clean, but one who touches a carcass in it will be unclean.
- טָה֑וֹרtahoradjective · masculine singulartagged: pure
If a carcass falls on any seed for sowing, the seed is clean;
- טָה֖וֹרtahoradjective · masculine singulartagged: pure
You must distinguish between the unclean and the clean, between animals that may be eaten and those that may not.’”
- הַטָּהֹ֑רhatahorthe definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine singulartagged: the pure
the priest shall examine him, and if the disease has covered his entire body, he is to pronounce the infected person clean. Since it has all turned white, he is clean.
- טָה֥וֹרtahoradjective · masculine singulartagged: pure
The priest will reexamine him, and if the infection has turned white, the priest is to pronounce the infected person clean; then he is clean.
- טָה֥וֹרtahoradjective · masculine singulartagged: pure
If, however, in his sight the scaly outbreak is unchanged and black hair has grown in it, then it has healed. He is clean, and the priest is to pronounce him clean.
- טָה֣וֹרtahoradjective · masculine singulartagged: pure
the priest shall examine them, and if the spots are dull white, it is a harmless rash that has broken out on the skin; the person is clean.
- טָה֥וֹרtahoradjective · masculine singulartagged: pure
Now if a man loses his hair and is bald, he is still clean.
- טָה֥וֹרtahoradjective · masculine singulartagged: pure
Or if his hairline recedes and he is bald on his forehead, he is still clean.
- טָה֥וֹרtahoradjective · masculine singulartagged: pure
the priest shall order that two live clean birds, cedar wood, scarlet yarn, and hyssop be brought for the one to be cleansed.
- טְהֹר֑וֹתtehorotadjective · feminine pluraltagged: pure
to determine when something is clean or unclean. This is the law regarding skin diseases and mildew.”
- הַטָּהֹ֑רhatahorthe definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine singulartagged: the pure
If the man with the discharge spits on one who is clean, that person must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening.
- בַּטָּה֑וֹרbatahorpreposition with the article + adjective · masculine singulartagged: on the pure
You are therefore to distinguish between clean and unclean animals and birds. Do not become contaminated by any animal or bird, or by anything that crawls on the ground; I have set these apart as unclean for you.
- הַטְּהֹרָה֙hatehorahthe definite article (“the”) + adjective · feminine singulartagged: the pure
- לַטָּהֹ֑רlatahorpreposition with the article + adjective · masculine singulartagged: and the pure
He shall tend the lamps on the pure gold lampstand before the LORD continually.
- הַטְּהֹרָ֔הhatehorahthe definite article (“the”) + adjective · feminine singulartagged: the pure
and set them in two rows—six per row—on the table of pure gold before the LORD.
- הַטָּהֹ֖רhatahorthe definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine singulartagged: the pure
Numbers
eight uses
But if the woman has not defiled herself and is clean, she will be unaffected and able to conceive children.
- וּטְהֹרָ֖הutehorahconjunction (“and”) + adjective · feminine singulartagged: and pure
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.
- טָה֜וֹרtahoradjective · masculine singulartagged: pure
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.
- טָה֥וֹרtahoradjective · masculine singulartagged: clean
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.
- טָה֥וֹרtahoradjective · masculine singulartagged: clean
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.
- טָה֗וֹרtahoradjective · masculine singulartagged: clean
- טָה֑וֹרtahoradjective · masculine singulartagged: clean
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.
- טָהוֹר֒tahoradjective · masculine singulartagged: clean
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.
- הַטָּהֹר֙hatahorthe definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine singulartagged: the clean
Deuteronomy
six uses
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,
- וְהַטָּהוֹר֙vehatahorconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine singulartagged: and the clean
Indeed, you may eat it as you would eat a gazelle or deer; both the ceremonially unclean and the clean may eat it.
- וְהַטָּה֔וֹרvehatahorconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine singulartagged: and the clean
You may eat any clean bird,
- טְהֹרָ֖הtehorahadjective · feminine singulartagged: clean
But you may eat any clean bird.
- טָה֖וֹרtahoradjective · masculine singulartagged: clean
Eat it within your gates; both the ceremonially unclean and clean may eat it as they would a gazelle or a deer.
- וְהַטָּהוֹר֙vehatahorconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine singulartagged: and the clean
If any man among you becomes unclean because of a nocturnal emission, he must leave the camp and stay outside.
- טָה֖וֹרtahoradjective · masculine singulartagged: clean
1 Samuel
two uses
Saul said nothing that day because he thought, “Something has happened to David to make him ceremonially unclean—surely he is unclean.”
- טָה֛וֹרtahoradjective · masculine singulartagged: clean
- טָהֽוֹר׃ סtahoradjective · masculine singulartagged: clean
1 Chronicles
one use
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;
- טָה֑וֹרtahoradjective · masculine singulartagged: pure
2 Chronicles
four uses
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.
- טָהֽוֹר׃tahoradjective · masculine singulartagged: pure
Additionally, the king made a great throne of ivory and overlaid it with pure gold.
- טָהֽוֹר׃tahoradjective · masculine singulartagged: pure
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.
- הַטָּה֗וֹרhatahorthe definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine singulartagged: the clean
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.
- טָה֔וֹרtahoradjective · masculine singulartagged: clean
Ezra
one use
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.
- טְהוֹרִ֑יםtehorimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: pure
Job
three uses
Who can bring out clean from unclean? No one!
- טָ֭הוֹרtahoradjective · masculine singulartagged: a clean
Yet a righteous one holds to his way, and the one with clean hands grows stronger.
- וּֽטֳהָר־utohor-conjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and clean of
Topaz from Cush cannot compare to it, nor can it be valued in pure gold.
- טָ֝ה֗וֹרtahoradjective · masculine singulartagged: pure
Psalms
three uses
The words of the LORD are flawless, like silver refined in a furnace, like gold purified sevenfold.
- טְהֹ֫ר֥וֹתtehorotadjective · feminine pluraltagged: pure
The fear of the LORD is pure, enduring forever; the judgments of the LORD are true, being altogether righteous.
- טְהוֹרָה֮tehorahadjective · feminine singulartagged: pure
Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
- טָ֭הוֹרtahoradjective · masculine singulartagged: pure
Proverbs
three uses
The LORD detests the thoughts of the wicked, but the words of the pure are pleasant to Him.
- וּ֝טְהֹרִ֗יםutehorimconjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine pluraltagged: and clean
He who loves a pure heart and gracious lips will have the king for a friend.
- טְהָרtehor-adjective · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: pure of
There is a generation of those who are pure in their own eyes and yet unwashed of their filth.
- טָה֣וֹרtahoradjective · masculine singulartagged: pure
Ecclesiastes
one use
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.
- וְלַטָּה֣וֹרvelatahorconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + adjective · masculine singulartagged: and to the clean
Isaiah
one use
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.”
- טָה֖וֹרtahoradjective · masculine singulartagged: pure
Ezekiel
three uses
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.
- לְטָה֖וֹרletahorpreposition + adjective · masculine singulartagged: and a clean
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.
- טְהוֹרִ֖יםtehorimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: pure
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.
- לְטָה֖וֹרletahorpreposition + adjective · masculine singulartagged: and a clean
Zechariah
two uses
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.
- טָה֖וֹרtahoradjective · masculine singulartagged: clean
- הַטָּה֜וֹרhatahorthe definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine singulartagged: the clean
Malachi
one use
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.
- טְהוֹרָ֑הtehorahadjective · feminine singulartagged: a pure
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 words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
