טָהוֹר
ta.hor (H2889)
pure
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# The Hebrew Word for Purity: טָהוֹר (tahor) The Hebrew term *tahor* appears 94 times throughout the biblical text and carries the primary sense of "pure." This frequency indicates that the concept it represents held considerable importance in ancient Hebrew thought and religious practice. The word functions as a fundamental descriptor for states, objects, and conditions that meet particular standards of cleanliness or acceptability. While the provided data establishes only the basic definition and occurrence count, the 94 instances suggest the word was applied across diverse contexts—likely encompassing physical cleanliness, ritual acceptability, and possibly moral or spiritual dimensions. This broad distribution implies that "purity" was not a marginal concern but rather an integral category in how ancient Hebrew speakers understood their world and religious obligations. The exact range of these applications would require examination of individual passages, but the sheer number of occurrences points to the pervasiveness of purity concepts in biblical thought. Without access to specific usage examples or contextual data, the precise boundaries between literal and figurative applications of *tahor* remain undetermined by the lexicon information provided. Nevertheless, the term's frequency and basic semantic field suggest it was essential vocabulary for describing what was considered clean, acceptable, or fit for purpose within biblical contexts.
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You shall take seven pairs of every clean animal with you, the male and his female. Of the animals that are not clean, take two, the male and his female.
Clean animals, unclean animals, birds, and everything that creeps on the ground
Noah built an altar to Yahweh, and took of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
You shall overlay it with pure gold. You shall overlay it inside and outside, and you shall make a gold molding around it.
You shall make a mercy seat of pure gold. Two and a half cubits shall be its length, and a cubit and a half its width.
You shall make its dishes, its spoons, its ladles, and its bowls to pour out offerings with. You shall make them of pure gold.
“You shall make a lamp stand of pure gold. The lamp stand shall be made of hammered work. Its base, its shaft, its cups, its buds, and its flowers shall be of one piece with it.
Their buds and their branches shall be of one piece with it, all of it one beaten work of pure gold.
It shall be made of a talent of pure gold, with all these accessories.
and two chains of pure gold; you shall make them like cords of braided work. You shall put the braided chains on the settings.
You shall make on the breastplate chains like cords, of braided work of pure gold.
“You shall make a plate of pure gold, and engrave on it, like the engravings of a signet, ‘HOLY TO YAHWEH.’
You shall overlay it with pure gold, its top, its sides around it, and its horns; and you shall make a gold molding around it.
You shall make incense of it, a perfume after the art of the perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and holy.
the table and its vessels, the pure lamp stand with all its vessels, the altar of incense,
He overlaid it with pure gold inside and outside, and made a molding of gold for it around it.
He made a mercy seat of pure gold. Its length was two and a half cubits, and a cubit and a half its width.
He overlaid it with pure gold, and made a gold molding around it.
He made the vessels which were on the table, its dishes, its spoons, its bowls, and its pitchers with which to pour out, of pure gold.
He made the lamp stand of pure gold. He made the lamp stand of beaten work. Its base, its shaft, its cups, its buds, and its flowers were of one piece with it.
Their buds and their branches were of one piece with it. The whole thing was one beaten work of pure gold.
He made its seven lamps, and its snuffers, and its snuff dishes, of pure gold.
He made it of a talent of pure gold, with all its vessels.
He overlaid it with pure gold: its top, its sides around it, and its horns. He made a gold molding around it.
He made the holy anointing oil and the pure incense of sweet spices, after the art of the perfumer.
They made on the breastplate chains like cords, of braided work of pure gold.
They made bells of pure gold, and put the bells between the pomegranates around the skirts of the robe, between the pomegranates;
They made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and wrote on it an inscription, like the engravings of a signet: “HOLY TO YAHWEH”.
the pure lamp stand, its lamps, even the lamps to be set in order, all its vessels, the oil for the light,
—all the rest of the bull—outside of the camp to a clean place where the ashes are poured out, and burn it on wood with fire. It shall be burned where the ashes are poured out.
He shall take off his garments, and put on other garments, and carry the ashes outside the camp to a clean place.
“ ‘The meat that touches any unclean thing shall not be eaten. It shall be burned with fire. As for the meat, everyone who is clean may eat it;
You are to make a distinction between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean.
The waved breast and the heaved thigh you shall eat in a clean place, you, and your sons, and your daughters with you: for they are given as your portion, and your sons’ portion, out of the sacrifices of the peace offerings of the children of Israel.
Nevertheless a spring or a cistern in which water is gathered shall be clean, but that which touches their carcass shall be unclean.
If part of their carcass falls on any sowing seed which is to be sown, it is clean.
to make a distinction between the unclean and the clean, and between the living thing that may be eaten and the living thing that may not be eaten.’ ”
then the priest shall examine him. Behold, if the leprosy has covered all his flesh, he shall pronounce him clean of the plague. It has all turned white: he is clean.
The priest shall examine him. Behold, if the plague has turned white, then the priest shall pronounce him clean of the plague. He is clean.
But if in his eyes the itch is arrested and black hair has grown in it, then the itch is healed. He is clean. The priest shall pronounce him clean.
then the priest shall examine them. Behold, if the bright spots on the skin of their body are a dull white, it is a harmless rash. It has broken out in the skin. He is clean.
“If a man’s hair has fallen from his head, he is bald. He is clean.
If his hair has fallen off from the front part of his head, he is forehead bald. He is clean.
then the priest shall command them to take for him who is to be cleansed two living clean birds, cedar wood, scarlet, and hyssop.
to teach when it is unclean, and when it is clean. This is the law of leprosy.
“ ‘If he who has the discharge spits on him who is clean, then he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
“ ‘You shall therefore make a distinction between the clean animal and the unclean, and between the unclean fowl and the clean. You shall not make yourselves abominable by animal, or by bird, or by anything with which the ground teems, which I have separated from you as unclean for you.
He shall keep in order the lamps on the pure gold lamp stand before Yahweh continually.
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