ΚΑΘΑΡΣΙΝ, καθαρσιν
KATHARSIN, katharsin
Sounds Like: kah-THAR-sin
Translations: purification, a purification, cleansing, a cleansing
From the root: ΚΑΘΑΡΣΙΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to the act or process of making something clean or pure. It can be used in a literal sense for physical cleansing, or more commonly in a religious or moral sense for ritual purification or spiritual cleansing from sin or defilement. It is often used as the direct object of a verb, indicating what is being purified.
Inflection: Singular, Accusative, Feminine
Strong’s number: G2512 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Ezekiel — 15:4
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΚΑΘΑΡΣΙΣ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΚΑΘΑΡΣΕΙ — purification, cleansing, a cleansing, a purification
- ΚΑΘΑΡΣΕΣΙ — to purification, to cleansing, to purging, to purification rites
- ΚΑΘΑΡΣΕΩΣ — (of) purification, (of) cleansing
- ΚΑΘΑΡΣΙ — purification, cleansing, a cleansing, a purification
- ΚΑΘΑΡΣΙΣ — purification, cleansing, purgation, a purification, a cleansing
- ΚΑΘΑΡΣΙΩΝ — of purification, of cleansing, of purging
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