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Strong's G2511 καθαρίζω (katharizo)

Katharizo means “purge” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H2511 — challaq (“smooth”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G2511
Language Greek
Linked Usages 142
Books 37

Strong's G2511 Quick Answer

Strong's G2511 καθαρίζω (katharizo) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. katharizo (kath-ar-id'-zo) v. 1. to cleanse {literally or figuratively} It has 142 linked Bible usages across 37 books. Visible English usage signals include make, cleanse, clean, purifying, and purify. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.

Meaning
katharizo (kath-ar-id'-zo) v. 1. to cleanse {literally or figuratively}
Usage
142 linked usages
Books
37 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch
Usage Words
make, cleanse, clean, purifying, and purify

Meaning and Definition

katharizo (kath-ar-id'-zo) v. 1. to cleanse {literally or figuratively} [from G2513] KJV: (make) clean(-se), purge, purify Root(s): G2513

Original Word
καθαρίζω
Transliteration
katharizo
Derivation
Root: καθαρός R1: 2513
Morphology
verb

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G2511. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

to clean

Usage: καθαρίζω (Hellenistic-FlJ, Inscr.-for Attic καθαίρω, which see, on the vulgar -ερ-, Mat.8:3, Mrk.1:42, see Bl., § 6, 1; Thackeray, Gr., 74) [in LXX chiefly for טָהֵר ;] to cleanse, make clean. __1. In physical sense: with accusative of thing(s), figuratively, Mat.23:25-26, Luk.11:39; of disease (leprosy), with accusative of person(s), Mat.8:2-3 10:8 11:5, Mrk.1:40-42 Luk.4:27 5:12-13 7:22 17:14, 17; ἡ λέπρα ἐκαθερίσθη (on the spelling see supr.), Mat.8:3. __2. In ethical sense: τ. καρδίας, Act.15:9 (cf. Sir.38:10);

τ. χεῖρας, Jas.4:8; λαὸν ἑαυτῷ, Tit.2:14; τ. ἐκκλησίαν, Eph.5:26; with accusative of person(s) (of thing(s)), before ἀπό (131., § 36, 9; Deiss., BS, 216 f.), 2Co.7:1, Heb.9:14, 1Jn.1:7 Jn 1:9. __3. In ceremonial sense: Mrk.7:19, Act.10:15 11:9, Heb.9:22-23 10:2 (cf. δια-καθαρίζω).† (AS)

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How Strong's G2511 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render katharizo, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

make Matthew 8:2 cleanse Matthew 10:8 clean Matthew 8:3 purge Hebrews 9:14 purify Titus 2:14 purifying Acts 15:9

How Strong's G2511 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 95 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.
  • 1 Enoch rows are separated from the other corpora rather than being hidden inside a generic apocrypha bucket.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G2511 (καθαρίζω) appears 119 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G2511 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G2511 in the New Testament

29 indexed usages in New Testament.

Matthew 8:2 KJV

And, behold, there came a leper and worshipped him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.

Matthew 8:3 KJV

And Jesus put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will; be thou clean. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.

Matthew 10:8 KJV

Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.

Strong's G2511 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

95 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Genesis 5:8 Septuagint / Brenton

And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years, and he died.

Genesis 35:2 Septuagint / Brenton

And Jacob said to his house, and to all that were with him, Remove the strange gods that are with you from the midst of you, and purify yourselves, and change your clothes.

Exodus 20:7 Septuagint / Brenton

Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord thy God will not acquit him that takes his name in vain.

Strong's G2511 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

16 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Strong's G2511 in 1 Enoch

2 indexed usages in 1 Enoch.

Usage Excerpts

First 120 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G2511.

Genesis 5:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years, and he died.
Genesis 35:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Jacob said to his house, and to all that were with him, Remove the strange gods that are with you from the midst of you, and purify yourselves, and change your clothes.
Exodus 20:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord thy God will not acquit him that takes his name in vain.
Exodus 29:36 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou shalt sacrifice the calf of the sin offering on the day of purification, and thou shalt purify the altar when thou dost perform consecration upon it, and thou shalt anoint it so as to sanctify it.
Exodus 29:37 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Seven days shalt thou purify the altar and sanctify it; and the altar shall be most holy, everyone that touches the altar shall be hallowed.
Exodus 30:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And once in the year Aaron shall make atonement on its horns, he shall purge it with the blood of purification for their generations: it is most holy to the Lord.
Exodus 34:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and keeping justice and mercy for thousands, taking away iniquity, and unrighteousness, and sins; and he will not clear the guilty; bringing the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and to the children’s children, to the third and fourth generation.
Leviticus 8:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he slew it; and Moses took of the blood, and put it on the horns of the altar round about with his finger; and he purified the altar, and poured out the blood at the bottom of the altar, and sanctified it, to make atonement upon it.
Leviticus 12:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he shall present it before the Lord, and the priest shall make atonement for her, and shall purge her from the fountain of her blood; this is the law of her who bears a male or a female.
Leviticus 12:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And if she cannot afford a lamb, then shall she take two turtledoves or two young pigeons, one for a whole burnt offering, and one for a sin offering; and the priest shall make atonement for her, and she shall be purified.
Leviticus 13:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the priest shall look upon him the second time on the seventh day; and, behold, if the spot be dark, and the spot have not spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean; for it is a mere mark, and the man shall wash his garments and be clean.
Leviticus 13:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But if the bright spot should have changed and spread in the skin, after the priest has seen him for the purpose of purifying him, then shall he appear the second time to the priest,
Leviticus 13:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
then the priest shall look, and, behold, the leprosy has covered all the skin of the flesh; and the priest shall pronounce him clean of the plague, because it has changed all to white, it is clean.
Leviticus 13:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and the priest shall see him, and, behold, if the plague is turned white, then the priest shall pronounce the patient clean: he is clean.
Leviticus 13:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But if the bright spot should remain in its place and not spread, it is the scar of the ulcer; and the priest shall pronounce him clean.
Leviticus 13:28 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But if the bright spot remain stationary, and be not spread in the skin, but the sore should be dark, it is a scar of inflammation; and the priest shall pronounce him clean, for it is the mark of the inflammation.
Leviticus 13:34 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the priest shall see the scurf on the seventh day; and, behold, if the scurf is not spread in the skin after the man’s being shaved, and the appearance of the scurf is not hollow beneath the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean; and he shall wash his garments, and be clean.
Leviticus 13:35 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But if the scurf be indeed spread in the skin after he has been purified,
Leviticus 13:37 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But if the scurf remain before him in its place, and a dark hair should have arisen in it, the scurf is healed: he is clean, and the priest shall pronounce him clean.
Leviticus 13:59 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
This is the law of the plague of leprosy of a woolen or linen garment, either of the warp, or woof, or any leathern article, to pronounce it clean or unclean.
Leviticus 14:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
This is the law of the leper: in whatsoever day he shall have been cleansed, then shall he be brought to the priest.
Leviticus 14:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the priest shall give directions, and they shall take for him that is cleansed two clean live birds, and cedar wood, and spun scarlet, and hyssop.
Leviticus 14:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he shall sprinkle seven times upon him that was cleansed of his leprosy, and he shall be clean; and he shall let go the living bird into the field.
Leviticus 14:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the man that has been cleansed shall wash his garments, and shall shave off all his hair, and shall wash himself in water, and shall be clean; and after that he shall go into the camp, and shall remain out of his house seven days.
Leviticus 14:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the priest that cleanses shall present the man under purification, and these offerings before the Lord, at the door of the tabernacle of witness.
Leviticus 14:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the priest shall take of the blood of the trespass offering, and the priest shall put it on the tip of the right ear of the person under cleansing, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the great toe of his right foot.
Leviticus 14:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the remaining oil that is in his hand, the priest shall put on the tip of the right ear of him that is under cleansing, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the great toe of his right foot, on the place of the blood of the trespass offering.
Leviticus 14:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the remaining oil that is on the hand of the priest, the priest shall put on the head of the cleansed leper, and the priest shall make atonement for him before the Lord.
Leviticus 14:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the priest shall sacrifice the sin offering, and the priest shall make atonement for the person under purification to cleanse him from his sin, and afterward the priest shall slay the whole burnt offering.
Leviticus 14:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the priest shall offer the whole burnt offering, and the sacrifice upon the altar before the Lord; and the priest shall make atonement for him, and he shall be cleansed.
Leviticus 14:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he shall bring them on the eighth day, to purify him, to the priest, to the door of the tabernacle of witness before the Lord.
Leviticus 14:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he shall slay the lamb of the trespass offering; and the priest shall take of the blood of the trespass offering, and put it on the tip of the right ear of him that is under purification, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the great toe of his right foot.
Leviticus 14:28 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the priest shall put of the oil that is on his hand on the tip of the right ear of him that is under purification, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the great toe of his right foot, on the place of the blood of the trespass offering.
Leviticus 14:29 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And that which is left of the oil which is on the hand of the priest he shall put on the head of him that is purged, and the priest shall make atonement for him before the Lord.
Leviticus 14:31 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
the one for a sin offering, the other for a whole burnt offering with the meat offering, and the priest shall make an atonement before the Lord for him that is under purification.
Leviticus 14:48 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And if the priest shall arrive and enter and see, and behold the plague be not at all spread in the house after the house has been plastered, then the priest shall declare the house clean, because the plague is healed.
Leviticus 14:57 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and of declaring in what day it is unclean, and in what day it shall be purged: this is the law of the leprosy.
Leviticus 15:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And if he that has the issue should be cleansed of his issue, then shall he number to himself seven days for his purification; and he shall wash his garments, and bathe his body in water, and shall be clean.
Leviticus 15:28 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But if she shall be cleansed from her flux, then she shall number to herself seven days, and afterward she shall be esteemed clean.
Leviticus 16:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he shall sprinkle some of the blood upon it seven times with his finger, and shall purge it, and hallow it from the uncleanness of the children of Israel.
Leviticus 16:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he shall finish making atonement for the sanctuary and for the tabernacle of witness, and for the altar; and he shall make a cleansing for the priests, and he shall bring the living goat;
Leviticus 16:30 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For in this day he shall make an atonement for you, to cleanse you from all your sins before the Lord, and ye shall be purged.
Leviticus 22:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the man of the seed of Aaron the priest, if he should have leprosy or issue of the reins, shall not eat of the holy things, until he be cleansed; and he that touches any uncleanness of a dead body, or the man whose seed of copulation shall have gone out from him,
Numbers 6:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And if anyone should die suddenly by him, immediately the head of his vow shall be defiled; and he shall shave his head in whatever day he shall be purified: on the seventh day he shall be shaved.
Numbers 8:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And afterward the Levites shall go in to perform the works of the tabernacle of witness; and thou shalt purify them, and present them before the Lord.
Numbers 12:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Miriam was separated without the camp seven days; and the people moved not forward till Miriam was cleansed.
Numbers 14:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The Lord is long-suffering and merciful, and true, removing transgressions and iniquities and sins, and he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation.
Numbers 30:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But if her father straitly forbid her in the day in which he shall hear all her vows and her obligations, which she has contracted upon her soul, they shall not stand; and the Lord shall hold her guiltless, because her father forbade her.
Numbers 30:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But if her husband should straitly forbid her in the day in which he should hear her, none of her vows or obligations which she has contracted upon her soul shall stand, because her husband has disallowed her, and the Lord shall hold her guiltless.
Numbers 30:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But if her husband should utterly cancel the vow in the day in which he shall hear it, none of the things which shall proceed out of her lips in her vows, and in the obligations contracted upon her soul, shall stand to her; her husband has canceled them, and the Lord shall hold her guiltless.
Numbers 31:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
everything that shall pass through the fire shall so be clean, nevertheless it shall be purified with the water of sanctification; and whatsoever will not pass through the fire shall pass through water.
Numbers 31:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And on the seventh day ye shall wash your garments, and be clean; and afterward ye shall come into the camp.
Deuteronomy 5:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain, for the Lord thy God will certainly not acquit him that takes his name in vain.
Deuteronomy 19:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thine eye shall not spare him; so shalt thou purge innocent blood from Israel, and it shall be well with thee.
Joshua 22:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Is the sin of Peor too little for you, whereas we have not been cleansed from it until this day, though there was a plague among the congregation of the Lord?
1 Kingdoms 20:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Saul said nothing on that day, for he said, It seems to have fallen out that he is not clean, because he has not purified himself.
4 Kingdoms 5:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, Go and wash seven times in Jordan, and thy flesh shall return to thee, and thou shalt be cleansed.
4 Kingdoms 5:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not go and wash in them, and be cleansed? and he turned and went away in a rage.
4 Kingdoms 5:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And his servants came near and said to him, Suppose the prophet had spoken a great thing to thee, wouldest thou not perform it? yet he has but said to thee, Wash, and be cleansed.
4 Kingdoms 5:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
So Naaman went down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according to the word of Elisha: and his flesh returned to him as the flesh of a little child, and he was cleansed.
2 Chronicles 29:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they gathered their brethren, and they purified themselves according to the king’s command by the order of the Lord, to purify the house of the Lord.
2 Chronicles 34:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And in the eighth year of his reign, and he being yet a youth, he began to seek the Lord God of his father David: and in the twelfth year of his reign he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the ornaments for the altars, and the molten images.
2 Chronicles 34:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he burned the bones of the priests upon the altars, and purged Judah and Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 34:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And in the eighteenth year of his reign, after having cleansed the land, and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, and Maaseiah prefect of the city, and Joah son of Joahaz his recorder, to repair the house of the Lord his God.
Ezra 6:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For the priests and the Levites were purified together, all of them were pure, and killed the passover for all the children of the captivity, and for their brethren the priests, and for themselves.
Nehemiah 12:30 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the priests and the Levites purified themselves, and purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.
Nehemiah 13:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Then I commanded, and they cleansed the chambers: and thither brought I again the vessels of the house of God, with the meat offering and the frankincense.
Nehemiah 13:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I commanded the Levites that they should cleanse themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the sabbath day. Remember me, O my God, concerning this also, and spare me according to the greatness of thy mercy.
Nehemiah 13:30 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thus cleansed I them from all strangers, and appointed the wards of the priests and the Levites, every one in his business;
Job 1:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And when the days of the banquet were completed, Job sent and purified them, having risen up in the morning, And offered sacrifices for them, according to their number, And one calf for a sin offering for their souls: For Job said, Lest peradventure my sons have thought evil in their minds against God. Thus then Job did continually.
Psalms 11:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The oracles of the Lord are pure oracles; As silver tried in the fire, proved in a furnace of earth, Purified seven times.
Psalms 18:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Who will understand his transgressions? Purge thou me from my secret sins.
Psalms 18:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And spare thy servant the attack of strangers: If they do not gain the dominion over me, then shall I be blameless, And I shall be clear from great sin.
Psalms 50:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity, And cleanse me from my sin.
Psalms 50:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou shalt sprinkle me with hyssop, and I shall be purified: Thou shalt wash me, and I shall be made whiter than snow.
Proverbs 32:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Isaiah 53:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The Lord also is pleased to purge him from his stroke. If ye can give an offering for sin, your soul shall see a long-lived seed:
Isaiah 57:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they shall say, Clear the ways before him, and take up the stumbling blocks out of the way of my people.
Isaiah 66:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
They that sanctify themselves and purify themselves in the gardens, and eat swine’s flesh in the porches, and the abominations, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the Lord.
Jeremiah 13:27 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
thine adultery also, and thy neighing, and the looseness of thy fornication: on the hills and in the fields I have seen thine abominations. Woe to thee, O Jerusalem, for thou hast not been purified so as to follow me; how long yet shall it be?
Jeremiah 32:29 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For I am beginning to afflict the city whereon my name is called, and ye shall by no means be held guiltless: for I am calling a sword upon all that dwell upon the earth.
Jeremiah 40:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will cleanse them from all their iniquities, whereby they have sinned against me, and will not remember their sins, whereby they have sinned against me, and revolted from me.
Lamentations 4:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Her Nazirites were made purer than snow, They were whiter than milk, They were purified as with fire, Their polishing was superior to sapphire stone.
Ezekiel 24:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Her scum shall become shameful, because thou didst defile thyself: and what if thou shalt be purged no more until I have accomplished my wrath?
Ezekiel 36:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be purged from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols, and I will cleanse you.
Ezekiel 36:33 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thus saith the Lord God; In the day wherein I shall cleanse you from all your iniquities I will also cause the cities to be inhabited, and the waste places shall be built upon:
Ezekiel 37:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
that they may no more defile themselves with their idols; and I will deliver them from all their transgressions whereby they have sinned, and will cleanse them; and they shall be to me a people, and I the Lord will be to them a God.
Ezekiel 39:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the house of Israel shall bury them, that the land may be cleansed in the space of seven months.
Ezekiel 39:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they shall appoint men continually to go over the land, to bury them that have been left on the face of the earth, to cleanse it after the space of seven months, and they shall seek them out.
Ezekiel 39:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For the name of the city shall be Burial place: so shall the land be cleansed.
Ezekiel 43:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and they shall make atonement for the altar, and shall purge it; and they shall consecrate themselves.
Ezekiel 44:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And after he has been cleansed, let him number to himself seven days.
Daniel 8:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he said to him, Evening and morning there shall be two thousand and four hundred days; and then the sanctuary shall be cleansed.
Hosea 8:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Cast off thy calf, O Samaria; mine anger is kindled against them: how long will they be unable to purge themselves in Israel?
Malachi 3:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
He shall sit to melt and purify as it were silver, and as it were gold: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and refine them as gold and silver, and they shall offer to the Lord an offering in righteousness.
Matthew 8:2 New Testament, KJV
And, behold, there came a leper and worshipped him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.
Matthew 8:3 New Testament, KJV
And Jesus put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will; be thou clean. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.
Matthew 10:8 New Testament, KJV
Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.
Matthew 11:5 New Testament, KJV
The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.
Matthew 23:25 New Testament, KJV
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.
Matthew 23:26 New Testament, KJV
Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.
Mark 1:40 New Testament, KJV
And there came a leper to him, beseeching him, and kneeling down to him, and saying unto him, If thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.
Mark 1:41 New Testament, KJV
And Jesus, moved with compassion, put forth his hand, and touched him, and saith unto him, I will; be thou clean.
Mark 1:42 New Testament, KJV
And as soon as he had spoken, immediately the leprosy departed from him, and he was cleansed.
Mark 7:19 New Testament, KJV
Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?
Luke 4:27 New Testament, KJV
And many lepers were in Israel in the time of Eliseus the prophet; and none of them was cleansed, saving Naaman the Syrian.
Luke 5:12 New Testament, KJV
And it came to pass, when he was in a certain city, behold a man full of leprosy: who seeing Jesus fell on his face, and besought him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.
Luke 5:13 New Testament, KJV
And he put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will: be thou clean. And immediately the leprosy departed from him.
Luke 7:22 New Testament, KJV
Then Jesus answering said unto them, Go your way, and tell John what things ye have seen and heard; how that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, to the poor the gospel is preached.
Luke 11:39 New Testament, KJV
And the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness.
Luke 17:14 New Testament, KJV
And when he saw them, he said unto them, Go shew yourselves unto the priests. And it came to pass, that, as they went, they were cleansed.
Luke 17:17 New Testament, KJV
And Jesus answering said, Were there not ten cleansed? but where are the nine?
Acts 10:15 New Testament, KJV
And the voice spake unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.
Acts 11:9 New Testament, KJV
But the voice answered me again from heaven, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.
Acts 15:9 New Testament, KJV
And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.
2 Corinthians 7:1 New Testament, KJV
Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
Ephesians 5:26 New Testament, KJV
That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
Titus 2:14 New Testament, KJV
Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
Hebrews 9:14 New Testament, KJV
How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
Hebrews 9:22 New Testament, KJV
And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G2511, grouped by book.

Genesis 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Exodus 5 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Leviticus 36 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Numbers 9 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Deuteronomy 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Joshua 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
1 Kingdoms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
4 Kingdoms 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Chronicles 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezra 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Nehemiah 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Job 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 5 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Proverbs 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Isaiah 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jeremiah 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Lamentations 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezekiel 9 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Daniel 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Hosea 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Malachi 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Matthew 6 usages, New Testament
Mark 4 usages, New Testament
Luke 7 usages, New Testament
Acts 3 usages, New Testament
2 Corinthians 1 usage, New Testament
Ephesians 1 usage, New Testament
Titus 1 usage, New Testament
Hebrews 3 usages, New Testament
James 1 usage, New Testament
1 John 2 usages, New Testament
Judith 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
1 Maccabees 5 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
2 Maccabees 4 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
4 Maccabees 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Sirach 4 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
1 Enoch 2 usages, 1 Enoch

Strong's G2511 FAQ

What does katharizo (καθαρίζω) mean?

Katharizo (Strong's G2511) is a Greek word most simply glossed "purge". katharizo (kath-ar-id'-zo) v. 1. to cleanse {literally or figuratively}

How many times is katharizo (καθαρίζω) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 142 linked usages for Strong's G2511 across 37 books.

Where can I study katharizo (καθαρίζω) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G2511 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.

What English words translate katharizo (καθαρίζω)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as make, cleanse, clean, purifying, purify, and purge. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G2511 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 95 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, 16 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 2 in 1 Enoch for Strong's G2511, with linked reader references where each row is available.