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Lexicon :: Strong's H2889 - ṭâôr

Aa
טָהוֹר
Transliteration
ṭâôr
Pronunciation
taw-hore'
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Part of Speech
adjective
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 792d

Strong’s Definitions

טָהוֹר ṭâhôwr, taw-hore'; or טָהֹר ṭâhôr; from H2891; pure (in a physical, chemical, ceremonial or moral sense):—clean, fair, pure(-ness).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 94x

The KJV translates Strong's H2889 in the following manner: clean (50x), pure (40x), fair (2x), purer (1x), variant (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 94x
The KJV translates Strong's H2889 in the following manner: clean (50x), pure (40x), fair (2x), purer (1x), variant (1x).

  1. pure, clean

    1. clean (ceremonially - of animals)

    2. pure (physically)

    3. pure, clean (morally, ethically)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
טָהוֹר ṭâhôwr, taw-hore'; or טָהֹר ṭâhôr; from H2891; pure (in a physical, chemical, ceremonial or moral sense):—clean, fair, pure(-ness).
STRONGS H2889: Abbreviations
† טָהוֺר adjective clean, pure; — masculine absolute ט׳ Exodus 25:11 + 68 times; טָהֹר Leviticus 11:47 + 4 times; construct טְהוֺר Habakkuk 1:13; טְהָו֯ר [H2890 Proverbs 22:11]; טֳהָרֿ [H2890 Job 17:9]; feminine טְהוֺרָה Malachi 1:11 + 3 times; טְהֹרָה Genesis 7:2 + 8 times; masculine plural טְהוֺרִים Ezekiel 36:25; Ezra 6:20; טְהֹרִים Proverbs 15:26; feminine plural טְהֹרוֺת Leviticus 14:4; Psalm 12:7; —
1. ceremonially clean, of animals Genesis 7:2 (twice in verse); Genesis 7:8 (twice in verse); Genesis 8:20 (twice in verse) (all J), Leviticus 14:4 (P), Leviticus 20:25 (twice in verse) (H), Deuteronomy 14:11, 20; places Leviticus 4:12; Leviticus 6:4; Leviticus 10:14; Leviticus 11:36; Numbers 19:9 (all P); things Leviticus 10:10; Leviticus 11:37, 47; Leviticus 14:57 (P), Ezekiel 22:26; Ezekiel 44:23; Isaiah 66:20; Malachi 1:11; persons Leviticus 7:19; Leviticus 13:13, 17, 37, 39, 40, 41; Leviticus 15:8; Numbers 5:28; Numbers 9:13; Numbers 18:11, 13; Numbers 19:9, 18, 19 (all P), Deuteronomy 12:15, 22; Deuteronomy 15:22; Deuteronomy 23:11; 1 Samuel 20:26a + see 1 Samuel 20:26b MT but read טֹהַר Pu., see טָהֵר, 2 Chronicles 30:17; Ezra 6:20.
2. physically pure: of gold זָהָב Exodus 25:11, 17, 24, 29, 31, 36, 38, 39; Exodus 28:14, 22, 36; Exodus 30:3; Exodus 37:2, 6, 11, 16, 17, 22, 23, 24, 26; Exodus 39:15, 25, 30 (all P), 1 Chronicles 28:17; 2 Chronicles 3:4; 9:17; כֶּתֶם Job 28:19; of water מַיִם Ezekiel 36:25; of incense קְטֹרֶת Exodus 30:35; Exodus 37:29 (P); of lamp stand מְנֹרָה Exodus 31:8; Exodus 39:37 (P), Leviticus 24:4 (H); of the table שֻׁלְחָן Leviticus 24:6 (H), 2 Chronicles 13:11; clean, of turban Zechariah 3:5 (twice in verse).
3. ethically pure, clean Proverbs 30:12; Ecclesiastes 9:2; Job 14:4; of heart Psalm 51:12 [Psalm 51:10]; [H2890 Proverbs 22:11]; hands [H2890 Job 17:9]; eyes Habakkuk 1:13 (of God); words of men Proverbs 15:26; words of God Psalm 12:7; law of י׳ as object of reverential fear Psalm 19:10.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

7:2; 7:2; 7:8; 8:20

Exodus

25:11; 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; 6:4; 7:19; 10:10; 10:14; 11:36; 11:37; 11:47; 11:47; 13:13; 13:17; 13:37; 13:39; 13:40; 13:41; 14:4; 14:4; 14:57; 15:8; 20:25; 24:4; 24:6

Numbers

5:28; 9:13; 18:11; 18:13; 19:9; 19:9; 19:18; 19:19

Deuteronomy

12:15; 12:22; 14:11; 14:20; 15:22; 23:11

1 Samuel

20:26; 20:26

1 Chronicles

28:17

2 Chronicles

3:4; 9:17; 13:11; 30:17

Ezra

6:20; 6:20

Job

14:4; 28:19

Psalms

12:7; 12:7; 19:10; 51:10

Proverbs

15:26; 15:26; 30:12

Ecclesiastes

9:2

Isaiah

66:20

Ezekiel

22:26; 36:25; 36:25; 44:23

Habakkuk

1:13; 1:13

Zechariah

3:5

Malachi

1:11; 1:11

H2889

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H2889 matches the Hebrew טָהוֹר (ṭâôr),
which occurs 94 times in 86 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 2 / 2 (Lev 24:6–Mal 1:11)

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 24:6 - Arrange them in two stacks, six in each stack, on the table of pure gold before the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:28

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:28 - If, however, the woman has not made herself impure, but is clean, she will be cleared of guilt and will be able to have children.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:13 - But if anyone who is ceremonially clean and not on a journey fails to celebrate the Passover, they must be cut off from their people for not presenting the LORD’s offering at the appointed time. They will bear the consequences of their sin.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:11 - “This also is yours: whatever is set aside from the gifts of all the wave offerings of the Israelites. I give this to you and your sons and daughters as your perpetual share. Everyone in your household who is ceremonially clean may eat it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:13 - All the land’s firstfruits that they bring to the LORD will be yours. Everyone in your household who is ceremonially clean may eat it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:9 - “A man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer and put them in a ceremonially clean place outside the camp. They are to be kept by the Israelite community for use in the water of cleansing; it is for purification from sin.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:18 - Then a man who is ceremonially clean is to take some hyssop, dip it in the water and sprinkle the tent and all the furnishings and the people who were there. He must also sprinkle anyone who has touched a human bone or a grave or anyone who has been killed or anyone who has died a natural death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:19 - The man who is clean is to sprinkle those who are unclean on the third and seventh days, and on the seventh day he is to purify them. Those who are being cleansed must wash their clothes and bathe with water, and that evening they will be clean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:15 - Nevertheless, you may slaughter your animals in any of your towns and eat as much of the meat as you want, as if it were gazelle or deer, according to the blessing the LORD your God gives you. Both the ceremonially unclean and the clean may eat it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:22

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:22 - Eat them as you would gazelle or deer. Both the ceremonially unclean and the clean may eat.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:11 - You may eat any clean bird.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:20 - But any winged creature that is clean you may eat.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:22

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:22 - You are to eat it in your own towns. Both the ceremonially unclean and the clean may eat it, as if it were gazelle or deer.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:10 - If one of your men is unclean because of a nocturnal emission, he is to go outside the camp and stay there.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:26 - Saul said nothing that day, for he thought, “Something must have happened to David to make him ceremonially unclean—surely he is unclean.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 28:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 28:17 - the weight of pure gold for the forks, sprinkling bowls and pitchers; the weight of gold for each gold dish; the weight of silver for each silver dish;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 3:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 3:4 - The portico at the front of the temple was twenty cubits[fn] long across the width of the building and twenty[fn] cubits high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:17 - Then the king made a great throne covered with ivory and overlaid with pure gold.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:11 - Every morning and evening they present burnt offerings and fragrant incense to the LORD. They set out the bread on the ceremonially clean table and light the lamps on the gold lampstand every evening. We are observing the requirements of the LORD our God. But you have forsaken him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:17 - Since many in the crowd had not consecrated themselves, the Levites had to kill the Passover lambs for all those who were not ceremonially clean and could not consecrate their lambs[fn] to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:20 - The priests and Levites had purified themselves and were all ceremonially clean. The Levites slaughtered the Passover lamb for all the exiles, for their relatives the priests and for themselves.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:4 - Who can bring what is pure from the impure? No one!

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:19 - The topaz of Cush cannot compare with it; it cannot be bought with pure gold.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 12:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 12:6 - And the words of the LORD are flawless, like silver purified in a crucible, like gold[fn] refined seven times.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 19:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 19:9 - The fear of the LORD is pure, enduring forever. The decrees of the LORD are firm, and all of them are righteous.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 51:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 51:10 - Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:26

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:26 - The LORD detests the thoughts of the wicked, but gracious words are pure in his sight.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:11 - One who loves a pure heart and who speaks with grace will have the king for a friend.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:12 - those who are pure in their own eyes and yet are not cleansed of their filth;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:2 - All share a common destiny—the righteous and the wicked, the good and the bad,[fn] the clean and the unclean, those who offer sacrifices and those who do not. As it is with the good, so with the sinful; as it is with those who take oaths, so with those who are afraid to take them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:20 - And they will bring all your people, from all the nations, to my holy mountain in Jerusalem as an offering to the LORD—on horses, in chariots and wagons, and on mules and camels,” says the LORD. “They will bring them, as the Israelites bring their grain offerings, to the temple of the LORD in ceremonially clean vessels.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:26

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:26 - Her priests do violence to my law and profane my holy things; they do not distinguish between the holy and the common; they teach that there is no difference between the unclean and the clean; and they shut their eyes to the keeping of my Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:25

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:25 - I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your impurities and from all your idols.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:23 - They are to teach my people the difference between the holy and the common and show them how to distinguish between the unclean and the clean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 3:5

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 3:5 - Then I said, “Put a clean turban on his head.” So they put a clean turban on his head and clothed him, while the angel of the LORD stood by.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMal 1:11 - 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 brought to me, because my name will be great among the nations,” says the LORD Almighty.

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