G2511 – katharizo – καθαρίζω to cleanse

Strong’s ID:
G2511
Greek Word:
καθαρίζω
Transliteration:
katharizo
Pronunciation:
kath-ar-id’-zo
Part of Speech:
verb
Etymology:
from G2513
Comparables:
H2212, to refine, purify
Usage Count:
30
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Equip God’s People Greek Lexicon

to cleanse

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Strong’s Greek Lexicon

from G2513; to cleanse (literally or figuratively):—(make) clean(-se), purge, purify.

Owing to changes in the enumeration while in progress, there were no words left for numbers 2717 and 3203–3302, which were therefore silently dropped out of the vocabulary and references as redundant.

Thayer’s Greek Definitions

1) to make clean, cleanse
1a) from physical stains and dirt
1a1) utensils, food
1a2) a leper, to cleanse by curing
1a3) to remove by cleansing
1b) in a moral sense
1b1) to free from defilement of sin and from faults
1b2) to purify from wickedness
1b3) to free from guilt of sin, to purify
1b4) to consecrate by cleansing or purifying
1b5) to consecrate, dedicate
2) to pronounce clean in a levitical sense

Thayer’s Definitions are as edited by the Online Bible of Winterbourne, Ontario. They removed the etymology, cross-references, and Greek phrases and changed some of Thayer’s Unitarian doctrinal positions concerning the work and person of Christ.