# טָהֵר (taher)

Israeli respelling: ta-her. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H2891. 80 Old Testament occurrences.

to be pure (physical sound, clear, unadulterated; Levitically, uncontaminated; morally, innocent or holy)

King James renderings: be (make, make self, pronounce) clean, cleanse (self), purge, purify(-ier, self).

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/taher-h2891

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 35:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/35/2) — Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change y…
- [Leviticus 11:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/11/32) — And upon whatsoever any of them, when they are dead, doth fall, it shall be unclean; whether it be any vessel of wood, or raiment, or skin,…
- [Leviticus 12:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/12/7) — Who shall offer it before the LORD, and make an atonement for her; and she shall be cleansed from the issue of her blood. This is the law f…
- [Leviticus 12:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/12/8) — And if she be not able to bring a lamb, then she shall bring two turtles, or two young pigeons; the one for the burnt offering, and the oth…
- [Leviticus 13:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/13/6) — And the priest shall look on him again the seventh day: and, behold, if the plague be somewhat dark, and the plague spread not in the skin,…
- [Leviticus 13:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/13/13) — Then the priest shall consider: and, behold, if the leprosy have covered all his flesh, he shall pronounce him clean that hath the plague:…
- [Leviticus 13:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/13/17) — And the priest shall see him: and, behold, if the plague be turned into white; then the priest shall pronounce him clean that hath the plag…
- [Leviticus 13:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/13/23) — But if the bright spot stay in his place, and spread not, it is a burning boil; and the priest shall pronounce him clean.
- [Leviticus 13:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/13/28) — And if the bright spot stay in his place, and spread not in the skin, but it be somewhat dark; it is a rising of the burning, and the pries…
- [Leviticus 13:34](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/13/34) — And in the seventh day the priest shall look on the scall: and, behold, if the scall be not spread in the skin, nor be in sight deeper than…
- [Leviticus 13:37](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/13/37) — But if the scall be in his sight at a stay, and that there is black hair grown up therein; the scall is healed, he is clean: and the priest…
- [Leviticus 13:58](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/13/58) — And the garment, either warp, or woof, or whatsoever thing of skin it be, which thou shalt wash, if the plague be departed from them, then…
- [Leviticus 13:59](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/13/59) — This is the law of the plague of leprosy in a garment of woollen or linen, either in the warp, or woof, or any thing of skins, to pronounce…
- [Leviticus 14:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/14/4) — Then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two birds alive and clean, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:
- [Leviticus 14:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/14/7) — And he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the living…
- [Leviticus 14:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/14/8) — And he that is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair, and wash himself in water, that he may be clean: and afte…
- [Leviticus 14:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/14/9) — But it shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shal…
- [Leviticus 14:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/14/11) — And the priest that maketh him clean shall present the man that is to be made clean, and those things, before the LORD, at the door of the…
- [Leviticus 14:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/14/14) — And the priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and the priest shall put it upon the tip of the right ear of him that…
- [Leviticus 14:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/14/17) — And of the rest of the oil that is in his hand shall the priest put upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon t…
- [Leviticus 14:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/14/18) — And the remnant of the oil that is in the priest’s hand he shall pour upon the head of him that is to be cleansed: and the priest shall mak…
- [Leviticus 14:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/14/19) — And the priest shall offer the sin offering, and make an atonement for him that is to be cleansed from his uncleanness; and afterward he sh…
- [Leviticus 14:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/14/20) — And the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the meat offering upon the altar: and the priest shall make an atonement for him, and he…
- [Leviticus 14:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/14/25) — And he shall kill the lamb of the trespass offering, and the priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and put it upon…
- [Leviticus 14:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/14/28) — And the priest shall put of the oil that is in his hand upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of…
- [Leviticus 14:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/14/29) — And the rest of the oil that is in the priest’s hand he shall put upon the head of him that is to be cleansed, to make an atonement for him…
- [Leviticus 14:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/14/31) — Even such as he is able to get, the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, with the meat offering: and the priest shal…
- [Leviticus 14:48](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/14/48) — And if the priest shall come in, and look upon it, and, behold, the plague hath not spread in the house, after the house was plaistered: th…
- [Leviticus 14:53](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/14/53) — But he shall let go the living bird out of the city into the open fields, and make an atonement for the house: and it shall be clean.
- [Leviticus 15:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/15/13) — And when he that hath an issue is cleansed of his issue; then he shall number to himself seven days for his cleansing, and wash his clothes…
- [Leviticus 15:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/15/28) — But if she be cleansed of her issue, then she shall number to herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean.
- [Leviticus 16:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/16/19) — And he shall sprinkle of the blood upon it with his finger seven times, and cleanse it, and hallow it from the uncleanness of the children…
- [Leviticus 16:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/16/30) — For on that day shall the priest make an atonement for you, to cleanse you, that ye may be clean from all your sins before the LORD.
- [Leviticus 17:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/17/15) — And every soul that eateth that which died of itself, or that which was torn with beasts, whether it be one of your own country, or a stran…
- [Leviticus 22:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/22/4) — What man soever of the seed of Aaron is a leper, or hath a running issue; he shall not eat of the holy things, until he be clean. And whoso…
- [Leviticus 22:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/22/7) — And when the sun is down, he shall be clean, and shall afterward eat of the holy things; because it is his food.
- [Numbers 8:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/8/6) — Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them.
- [Numbers 8:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/8/7) — And thus shalt thou do unto them, to cleanse them: Sprinkle water of purifying upon them, and let them shave all their flesh, and let them…
- [Numbers 8:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/8/15) — And after that shall the Levites go in to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation: and thou shalt cleanse them, and offer them…
- [Numbers 8:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/8/21) — And the Levites were purified, and they washed their clothes; and Aaron offered them as an offering before the LORD; and Aaron made an aton…
- [Numbers 19:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/19/12) — He shall purify himself with it on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean: but if he purify not himself the third day, the…
- [Numbers 19:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/19/19) — And the clean person shall sprinkle upon the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day: and on the seventh day he shall purify himse…
- [Numbers 31:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/31/23) — Every thing that may abide the fire, ye shall make it go through the fire, and it shall be clean: nevertheless it shall be purified with th…
- [Numbers 31:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/31/24) — And ye shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and ye shall be clean, and afterward ye shall come into the camp.
- [Joshua 22:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/22/17) — Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we are not cleansed until this day, although there was a plague in the congregation o…
- [2 Kings 5:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/5/10) — And Elisha sent a messenger unto him, saying, Go and wash in Jordan seven times, and thy flesh shall come again to thee, and thou shalt be…
- [2 Kings 5:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/5/12) — Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean? So he turned and…
- [2 Kings 5:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/5/13) — And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not hav…
- [2 Kings 5:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/5/14) — Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God: and his flesh came again like unto…
- [2 Chronicles 29:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/29/15) — And they gathered their brethren, and sanctified themselves, and came, according to the commandment of the king, by the words of the LORD,…
- [2 Chronicles 29:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/29/16) — And the priests went into the inner part of the house of the LORD, to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in th…
- [2 Chronicles 29:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/29/18) — Then they went in to Hezekiah the king, and said, We have cleansed all the house of the LORD, and the altar of burnt offering, with all the…
- [2 Chronicles 30:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/30/18) — For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim, and Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet did they eat the…
- [2 Chronicles 34:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/34/3) — For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he…
- [2 Chronicles 34:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/34/5) — And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.
- [2 Chronicles 34:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/34/8) — Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purged the land, and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, and Maaseiah the g…
- [Ezra 6:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezra/6/20) — For the priests and the Levites were purified together, all of them were pure, and killed the passover for all the children of the captivit…
- [Nehemiah 12:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/12/30) — And the priests and the Levites purified themselves, and purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.
- [Nehemiah 13:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/13/9) — Then I commanded, and they cleansed the chambers: and thither brought I again the vessels of the house of God, with the meat offering and t…
- [Nehemiah 13:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/13/22) — And I commanded the Levites that they should cleanse themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the sabbath day.…
- [Nehemiah 13:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/13/30) — Thus cleansed I them from all strangers, and appointed the wards of the priests and the Levites, every one in his business;
- [Job 4:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/4/17) — Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?
- [Job 17:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/17/9) — The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
- [Job 37:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/37/21) — And now men see not the bright light which is in the clouds: but the wind passeth, and cleanseth them.
- [Psalms 51:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/51/2) — Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
- [Psalms 51:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/51/7) — Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
- [Proverbs 20:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/20/9) — Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
- [Isaiah 66:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/66/17) — They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine’s flesh, and the abomination…
- [Jeremiah 13:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/13/27) — I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, and thine abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe unto…
- [Jeremiah 33:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/33/8) — And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, whereby they…
- [Ezekiel 22:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/22/24) — Son of man, say unto her, Thou art the land that is not cleansed, nor rained upon in the day of indignation.
- [Ezekiel 24:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/24/13) — In thy filthiness is lewdness: because I have purged thee, and thou wast not purged, thou shalt not be purged from thy filthiness any more,…
- [Ezekiel 36:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/36/25) — Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
- [Ezekiel 36:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/36/33) — Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day that I shall have cleansed you from all your iniquities I will also cause you to dwell in the cities, a…
- [Ezekiel 37:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/37/23) — Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but…
- [Ezekiel 39:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/39/12) — And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.
- [Ezekiel 39:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/39/14) — And they shall sever out men of continual employment, passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face…
- [Ezekiel 39:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/39/16) — And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.
- [Ezekiel 43:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/43/26) — Seven days shall they purge the altar and purify it; and they shall consecrate themselves.
- [Malachi 3:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/malachi/3/3) — And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they ma…