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# טׇהֳרָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2893

**purifying** — used 13 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

purifying [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2893/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

טָֽהֳרָה: n.f. purifying, cleansing [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2893/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. purifying, cleansing;—abs. ט׳ Lv 12:4 + 2 times; cstr. טָהֳרַת 1 Ch 23:28 2 Ch 30:19; sf. טָהֳרָתוֹ Lv 13:7 + 7 times;— purifying, menstruation Lv 12:4, 5. cleansing, purification, of leper Lv 13:7, 35; 14:2, 23, 32; of Nazirite Nu 6:9: from an issue Lv 15:13 (all P); from contact with the dead Ez 44:26; of sacred things in gen. 1 Ch 23:28; of persons for the passover 2 Ch 30:19; מִשְׁמֶרֶת הַטָּהֳרָה Ne 12:45 the charge, requirement of purification.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 13 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: purification (7); his purification (2); of purification (2).

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 44:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.44.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.44.26/#tree)

וְאַחֲרֵ֖י טָֽהֳרָת֑וֹ שִׁבְעַ֥ת יָמִ֖ים יִסְפְּרוּ־לֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and after purification his seven days people.will.count for him

*JPS 1917:* And after he is cleansed, they shall reckon unto him seven days.

[Leviticus 13:35](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.13.35/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.13.35/#tree)

וְאִם־פָּשֹׂ֥ה יִפְשֶׂ֛ה הַנֶּ֖תֶק בָּע֑וֹר אַחֲרֵ֖י טָהֳרָתֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and if truly.(spread) it.will.spread the scall in the skin after purification his

*JPS 1917:* But if the scall spread abroad in the skin after his cleansing,

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2893.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2893/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).