Lexical Summary tohar: purity, purifying Original Word: טֹהַרTransliteration: tohar Phonetic Spelling: (to'-har) Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: purity, purifying Meaning: brightness, ceremonially purification Strong's Concordance clearness, glory, purifying From taher; literally brightness; ceremonially purification -- clearness, glory, purifying. see HEBREW taher Brown-Driver-Briggs H2892. tohar טֹּ֫הַר noun [masculine] purity, purifying — 1 purity, לָטֹּ֫הַר הַשָּׁמַיִם כְּעֶצֶם Exodus 24:10 (JE), as the body of heavens for purity. 2 suffix טָהֳרָהּ יְמֵי Leviticus 12:4, 6 the days of her purifying (menstruation). [טֳהָר] (see Ges§ 10. 2. B), or [טְהָר] (Ol§ 173 b Bö§ 386), noun [masculine] clearness, lustre (dubious word; below טֹהַר Hup Pe SS; so Thes, reading מִטָּהֳרוֺ) — only מִטֳּהָרוֺ הִשְׁבַּתָּ Psalm 89:45; De Hup Pe Sch thou hast made (him) to cease from his lustre; ᵑ9 ᵑ6 made his lustre to cease, so AE Ki and others reading noun מִטְהָרוֺ or מִטְּהָרוֺ (dagesh forte according to Ges§ 20. 2. 2 b), and SchrSK 1868, 642 who reads טְהָרוֺ הִשְׁבַּתָּה; Gr proposes עטרתוֺ his crown; Bae מִיָּדוֺ מַטֶּה sceptre from his hand. |
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