טָהוֹר
pure
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Part of speech
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
85 distinct verses where H2889 appears in the Absolute state, across 17 books. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Genesis 3 verses
- Genesis 7:2 הַ/טְּהוֹרָ֗ה טְהֹרָ֥ה ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective fs adj Adjective fs 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.
- Genesis 7:8 הַ/טְּהוֹרָ֔ה טְהֹרָ֑ה ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective fs adj Adjective fs Clean animals, animals that are not clean, birds, and everything that creeps on the ground
- Genesis 8:20 הַ/טְּהוֹרָ֗ה הַ/טָּהֹ֔ר ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective fs ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective ms Noah built an altar to Yahweh, and took of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
Exodus 28 verses
- Exodus 25:11 טָה֔וֹר adj Adjective ms You shall overlay it with pure gold. Inside and outside shall you overlay it, and shall make a gold molding around it.
- Exodus 25:17 טָה֑וֹר adj Adjective ms 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 breadth.
- Exodus 25:24 טָה֑וֹר adj Adjective ms You shall overlay it with pure gold, and make a gold molding around it.
- Exodus 25:29 טָה֖וֹר adj Adjective ms You shall make its dishes, its spoons, its ladles, and its bowls to pour out offerings with. Of pure gold shall you make them.
- Exodus 25:31 טָה֑וֹר adj Adjective ms "You shall make a lampstand of pure gold. Of hammered work shall the lampstand be made, even its base, its shaft, its cups, its buds, and its flowers, shall be of one piece with it.
- Exodus 25:36 טָהֽוֹר adj Adjective ms Their buds and their branches shall be of one piece with it, the whole of it one beaten work of pure gold.
- Exodus 25:38 טָהֽוֹר adj Adjective ms Its snuffers and its snuff dishes shall be of pure gold.
- Exodus 25:39 טָה֖וֹר adj Adjective ms It shall be made of a talent of pure gold, with all these accessories.
- Exodus 28:14 טָה֔וֹר adj Adjective ms and two chains of pure gold; you make them like cords shall, of braided work: and you shall put the braided chains on the settings.
- Exodus 28:22 טָהֽוֹר adj Adjective ms You shall make on the breastplate chains like cords, of braided work of pure gold.
- Exodus 28:36 טָה֑וֹר adj Adjective ms "You shall make a plate of pure gold, and engrave on it, like the engravings of a signet, 'HOLY TO YAHWEH.'
- Exodus 30:3 טָה֗וֹר adj Adjective ms You shall overlay it with pure gold, the top of it, the sides of it around it, and its horns; and you shall make a gold molding around it.
- Exodus 30:35 טָה֥וֹר adj Adjective ms and you shall make incense of it, a perfume after the art of the perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and holy:
- Exodus 31:8 הַ/טְּהֹרָ֖ה ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective fs the table and its vessels, the pure lampstand with all its vessels, the altar of incense,
- Exodus 37:2 טָה֖וֹר adj Adjective ms He overlaid it with pure gold inside and outside, and made a molding of gold for it round about.
- Exodus 37:6 טָה֑וֹר adj Adjective ms He made a mercy seat of pure gold. Its length was two and a half cubits, and a cubit and a half its breadth.
- Exodus 37:11 טָה֑וֹר adj Adjective ms He overlaid it with pure gold, and made a gold molding around it.
- Exodus 37:16 טָהֽוֹר adj Adjective ms 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.
- Exodus 37:17 טָה֑וֹר adj Adjective ms He made the lampstand of pure gold. He made the lampstand of beaten work. Its base, its shaft, its cups, its buds, and its flowers were of one piece with it.
- Exodus 37:22 טָהֽוֹר adj Adjective ms Their buds and their branches were of one piece with it. The whole thing was one beaten work of pure gold.
- Exodus 37:23 טָהֽוֹר adj Adjective ms He made its seven lamps, and its snuffers, and its snuff dishes, of pure gold.
- Exodus 37:24 טָה֖וֹר adj Adjective ms He made it of a talent of pure gold, with all its vessels.
- Exodus 37:26 טָה֗וֹר adj Adjective ms He overlaid it with pure gold, its top, its sides around it, and its horns. He made a gold molding around it.
- Exodus 37:29 טָה֑וֹר adj Adjective ms He made the holy anointing oil and the pure incense of sweet spices, after the art of the perfumer.
- Exodus 39:15 טָהֽוֹר adj Adjective ms They made on the breastplate chains like cords, of braided work of pure gold.
- Exodus 39:25 טָה֑וֹר adj Adjective ms They made bells of pure gold, and put the bells between the pomegranates around the skirts of the robe, between the pomegranates;
- Exodus 39:30 טָה֑וֹר adj Adjective ms They made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and wrote on it a writing, like the engravings of a signet: "HOLY TO YAHWEH."
- Exodus 39:37 הַ/טְּהֹרָ֜ה ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective fs the pure lampstand, its lamps, even the lamps to be set in order, all its vessels, the oil for the light,
Leviticus 20 verses
- Leviticus 4:12 טָהוֹר֙ adj Adjective ms even the whole bull shall he carry forth outside the camp to a clean place, where the ashes are poured out, and burn it on wood with fire. Where the ashes are poured out it shall be burned.
- Leviticus 6:11 טָהֽוֹר adj Adjective ms He shall take off his garments, and put on other garments, and carry the ashes outside the camp to a clean place.
- Leviticus 7:19 טָה֖וֹר adj Adjective ms "'The flesh that touches any unclean thing shall not be eaten. It shall be burned with fire. As for the flesh, everyone who is clean may eat it;
- Leviticus 10:10 הַ/טָּהֽוֹר ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective ms and that you are to make a distinction between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean;
- Leviticus 10:14 טָה֔וֹר adj Adjective ms 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.
- Leviticus 11:36 טָה֑וֹר adj Adjective ms Nevertheless a spring or a cistern in which water is a gathered shall be clean: but that which touches their carcass shall be unclean.
- Leviticus 11:37 טָה֖וֹר adj Adjective ms If part of their carcass falls on any sowing seed which is to be sown, it is clean.
- Leviticus 11:47 הַ/טָּהֹ֑ר ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective ms 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.'"
- Leviticus 13:13 טָה֥וֹר adj Adjective ms then the priest shall examine him; and, 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.
- Leviticus 13:17 טָה֥וֹר adj Adjective ms and the priest shall examine him; and, behold, if the plague has turned white, then the priest shall pronounce him clean of the plague. He is clean.
- Leviticus 13:37 טָה֣וֹר adj Adjective ms But if in his eyes the itch is arrested, and black hair has grown in it; the itch is healed, he is clean. The priest shall pronounce him clean.
- Leviticus 13:39 טָה֥וֹר adj Adjective ms then the priest shall examine them; and, 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.
- Leviticus 13:40 טָה֥וֹר adj Adjective ms "If a man's hair has fallen from his head, he is bald. He is clean.
- Leviticus 13:41 טָה֥וֹר adj Adjective ms If his hair has fallen off from the front part of his head, he is forehead bald. He is clean.
- Leviticus 14:4 טְהֹר֑וֹת adj Adjective fp then the priest shall command them to take for him who is to be cleansed two living clean birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop.
- Leviticus 14:57 הַ/טָּהֹ֑ר ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective ms to teach when it is unclean, and when it is clean. This is the law of leprosy.
- Leviticus 15:8 בַּ/טָּה֑וֹר prep det + Adjective Adjective ms "'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.
- Leviticus 20:25 הַ/טְּהֹרָה֙ לַ/טָּהֹ֑ר ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective fs prep det + Adjective Adjective ms "'You shall therefore make a distinction between the clean animal and the unclean, and between the unclean fowl and the clean: and 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.
- Leviticus 24:4 הַ/טְּהֹרָ֔ה ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective fs He shall keep in order the lamps on the pure gold lampstand before Yahweh continually.
- Leviticus 24:6 הַ/טָּהֹ֖ר ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective ms You shall set them in two rows, six on a row, on the pure gold table before Yahweh.
Numbers 7 verses
- Numbers 5:28 וּ/טְהֹרָ֖ה conj + Adjective Adjective fs If the woman isn't defiled, but is clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed.
- Numbers 9:13 טָה֜וֹר adj Adjective ms But the man who is clean, and is not on a journey, and fails to keep the Passover, that soul shall be cut off from his people. Because he didn't offer the offering of Yahweh in its appointed season, that man shall bear his sin.
- Numbers 18:11 טָה֥וֹר adj Adjective ms This is your: the heave-offering of their gift, even all the wave-offerings of the children of Israel; I have given them to you, and to your sons and to your daughters with you, as a portion forever; everyone who is clean in your house shall eat of it.
- Numbers 18:13 טָה֥וֹר adj Adjective ms The first-ripe fruits of all that is in their land, which they bring to Yahweh, shall be yours; everyone who is clean in your house shall eat of it.
- Numbers 19:9 טָה֗וֹר טָה֑וֹר adj Adjective ms adj Adjective ms A man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up outside of the camp in a clean place; and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a water for impurity: it is a sin-offering.
- Numbers 19:18 טָהוֹר֒ adj Adjective ms and a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the tent, and on all the vessels, and on the persons who were there, and on him who touched the bone, or the slain, or the dead, or the grave:
- Numbers 19:19 הַ/טָּהֹר֙ ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective ms and the clean person shall sprinkle on the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day: and on the seventh day he shall purify him; and he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at even.
Deuteronomy 6 verses
- Deuteronomy 12:15 וְ/הַ/טָּהוֹר֙ conj + ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective ms Notwithstanding, you may kill and eat flesh within all your gates, after all the desire of your soul, according to the blessing of Yahweh your God which he has given you: the unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle, and as of the hart.
- Deuteronomy 12:22 וְ/הַ/טָּה֔וֹר conj + ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective ms Even as the gazelle and as the hart is eaten, so you shall eat of it: the unclean and the clean may eat of it alike.
- Deuteronomy 14:11 טְהֹרָ֖ה adj Adjective fs Of all clean birds you may eat.
- Deuteronomy 14:20 טָה֖וֹר adj Adjective ms Of all clean birds you may eat.
- Deuteronomy 15:22 וְ/הַ/טָּהוֹר֙ conj + ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective ms You shall eat it within your gates: the unclean and the clean [shall eat it] alike, as the gazelle, and as the hart.
- Deuteronomy 23:10 טָה֖וֹר adj Adjective ms If there be among you any man, who is not clean by reason of that which happens him by night, then shall he go abroad out of the camp, he shall not come within the camp:
1 Samuel 1 verse
1 Chronicles 1 verse
2 Chronicles 4 verses
- 2 Chronicles 3:4 טָהֽוֹר adj Adjective ms The porch that was before [the house], the length of it, according to the breadth of the house, was twenty cubits, and the height one hundred twenty; and he overlaid it within with pure gold.
- 2 Chronicles 9:17 טָהֽוֹר adj Adjective ms Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with pure gold.
- 2 Chronicles 13:11 הַ/טָּה֗וֹר ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective ms and they burn to Yahweh every morning and every evening burnt offerings and sweet incense: the show bread also [set they] in order on the pure table; and the lampstand of gold with the lamps of it, to burn every evening: for we keep the charge of Yahweh our God; but you have forsaken him.
- 2 Chronicles 30:17 טָה֔וֹר adj Adjective ms For there were many in the assembly who had not sanctified themselves: therefore the Levites had the charge of killing the Passovers for everyone who was not clean, to sanctify them to Yahweh.
Ezra 1 verse
Job 2 verses
Psalms 3 verses
- Psalms 12:6 טְהֹ֫ר֥וֹת adj Adjective fp The words of Yahweh are flawless words, As silver refined in a clay furnace, purified seven times.
- Psalms 19:9 טְהוֹרָה֮ adj Adjective fs The fear of Yahweh is clean, enduring forever. Yahweh's ordinances are true, and righteous altogether.
- Psalms 51:10 טָ֭הוֹר adj Adjective ms Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.
Proverbs 2 verses
Ecclesiastes 1 verse
Isaiah 1 verse
Ezekiel 3 verses
- Ezekiel 22:26 לְ/טָה֖וֹר prep + Adjective Adjective ms Her priests have done violence to my law, and have profaned my holy things: they have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they caused men to discern between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my Sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.
- Ezekiel 36:25 טְהוֹרִ֖ים adj Adjective mp I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
- Ezekiel 44:23 לְ/טָה֖וֹר prep + Adjective Adjective ms They shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.
Zechariah 1 verse
Malachi 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, טהור (ṭâhôwr) means “pure.” Catalogued under 4 senses, its meaning is not single-sense. With 86 verses in 17 books, it is a moderately common word in the Hebrew Bible. Its uses concentrate in Exodus (33% of all occurrences). First canonically at Genesis 7:2, it enters the text early. Dig into 86-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H2889 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 86
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 86 distinct verses.
- 17 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 17 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #440
- by frequency
- Top 500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 440 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 86 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 86 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 64 verses · 74%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 15 verses · 17%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 7 verses · 8%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Pure 33×, Clean 22×, Is clean 5×
- American Standard Version: Pure 29×, Clean 21×, Is clean 6×
- Berean Standard Bible: Pure 34×, Clean 24×, Ceremonially clean 6×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Pure 38×, Clean 36×, Is clean 8×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H2889 across 93 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 14 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H2889 across 94 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 14 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H2889 across 89 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 11 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 5 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H2889 across 99 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 12 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 4 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- pure, clean
- clean (ceremonially - of animals)
- pure (physically)
- pure, clean (morally, ethically)
Word origin
טָהוֹר adj. clean, pure
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from טהר (ṭâhêr) (H2891) — to cleanse.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
טָהוֹר
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- 1. clean, pure; not subject to levitical uncleanness. B. Mets. 86ᵃ שגופך ט׳ … נשמתך בט׳ (Ms. בטהרה) thy body is pure, and thy soul expired with (the word) ‘pure’; Snh. 68ᵃ.—Kidd. 70ᵇ וסימניך טמא טמא ט׳ ט׳ and the sign (by which to remember which of the two families is of unblemished descent) is, that with the name of an unclean animal (raven) is unclean, that with the name of a clean animal (dove) is clean; B. Bath. 91ᵃ. Kel. III, 7 ובחרסית ט׳ and the person that touches the clay is clean (not affected by levitical uncleanness). Ib. IV, 1 ט׳ is not subject to levitical uncleanness; a. v. fr.—דג ט׳, עוף; בהמה טהורה a fish, a bird, a domestic animal permitted to eat. Ḥull. XII, 2. Ib. IV, 3 בטהורה טהור if it occurs with an animal of the clean class, the person is levitically clean; a. v. fr.—Pl. טְהוֹרִים, טְהוֹרִין; טְהוֹרוֹת. Kel. II, 1 פשוטיהן ט׳ the flat-surfaced among them are not subject to uncleanness.—Ber. 2ᵇ שהכהנים ט׳ וכ׳ Ms. M. (ed. מטוהרים) when the purified priests enter &c. B. Mets. 61ᵇ; a. v. fr.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 45 distinct written forms H2889 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H2889, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 78 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 86 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 7:2
- Exodus 25:11
- Leviticus 4:12
- Numbers 5:28
- Deuteronomy 12:15
- 1 Samuel 20:26
- 1 Chronicles 28:17
- 2 Chronicles 3:4
- Ezra 6:20
- Job 14:4
- Psalms 12:6
- Proverbs 15:26
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
