noun · feminine
katharotas
Strong’sG2514
cleanness, purity
stem katharot-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
καθαρότης, -ητος, ἡ
(< καθαρός), [in LXX: Ex 24:10 (טֹהַר), Wi 7:24*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2514 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkath-ar-ot'-ace
cleanness (ceremonially)
Fromfrom G2513;
King Jamespurification.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
purity of αἰθήρ as compared with ἀήρ, LXX+5th c.BC+; ἡ τῶν εἰδῶν κ. Refs 5th c.AD+
2 cleanliness, of a town, Refs 5th c.BC+
3 clearness, ὀφθαλμῶν Refs 5th c.BC+
4 moral purity, ψυχῆς Refs
5 honesty, ἡ περὶ τὰ χρήματα κ. Refs 2nd c.BC+; ἐπιείκεια καὶ κ. Refs 4th c.AD+; πίστις καὶ κ. Refs 2nd c.BC+
6 purity, lucidity, of literary style, Refs
7 as a title, Rectitude, Holiness, Refs 4th c.AD+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | katharotas | katharotais |
| object accusative | katharotan1×καθαρότητα | katharotain |
| direct address vocative | katharotar | katharotair |
| of, belonging to genitive | katharotau | katharotaiu |
| to, for dative | katharota | katharotai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
katharota is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
katharotan“purification”objectaccusative singular1×
Hebrews 9:13“purification”… koinorēntoin hagiazatō pros tan tau sarkau katharotan,… bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who are ceremonially unclean sanctify them so …