Words the Bible translates as purifying
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 3 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- katharismosκαθαρισμόςpurification: the act, or the required rite, that removes what makes a person or thing unfit and restores them to acceptable standing before God
- tohorahטׇהֳרָהpurification: the process that restores someone to the clean standing worship requires, and the cleanness that process secures
- toharטֹהַרpurity: being in the clear before God, named as a condition a person is in, together with the counted days that condition covers
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- brightness: the clear, shining look of something with nothing clouding it
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