Clean, Cleanness, Cleanse, Cleansing
Clean, Cleanness, Cleanse, Cleansing
“free from impure admixture, without blemish, spotless,” is used (a) physically, e.g., Mat 23:26; Mat 27:59; Joh 13:10 (where the Lord, speaking figuratively, teaches that one who has been entirely “cleansed,” needs not radical renewal, but only to be “cleansed” from every sin into which he may fall); Joh 15:3; Heb 10:22; Rev 15:6; Rev 19:8, Rev 19:14; Rev 21:18, Rev 21:21; (b) in a Levitical sense, Rom 14:20; Tit 1:15, “pure;” (c) ethically, with the significance free from corrupt desire, from guilt, Mat 5:8; Joh 13:10-11; Act 20:26; 1Ti 1:5; 1Ti 3:9; 2Ti 1:3; 2Ti 2:22; Tit 1:15; Jam 1:27; blameless, innocent (a rare meaning for this word), Act 18:6; (d) in a combined Levitical and ethical sense ceremonially, Luk 11:41, “all things are clean unto you.” See CLEAR, C, Note (2), PURE.
akin to A, signifies (1) “to make clean, to cleanse” (a) from physical stains and dirt, as in the case of utensils, Mat 23:25 (figuratively in Mat 23:26); from disease, as of leprosy, Mat 8:2; (b) in a moral sense, from the defilement of sin, Act 15:9; 2Co 7:1; Heb 9:14; Jam 4:8, “cleanse” from the guilt of sin, Eph 5:26; 1Jo 1:7; (2) “to pronounce clean in a Levitical sense,” Mar 7:19, RV; Act 10:15; Act 11:9; “to consecrate by cleansings,” Heb 9:22-23; Heb 10:2. See PURGE, PURIFY.
“to cleanse thoroughly,” is used in Mat 3:12, RV.
Note: For kathairo, Joh 15:2, RV, See PURGE, No. 1. For diakathairo, Luk 3:17, RV, see PURGE, No. 3.
akin to A, denotes “cleansing,” (a) both the action and its results, in the Levitical sense, Mar 1:44; Luk 2:22, “purification;” Luk 5:14, “cleansing;” Joh 2:6; Joh 3:25, “purifying;” (b) in the moral sense, from sins, Heb 1:3; 2Pe 1:9, RV, “cleansing.” See PURGE, PURIFICATION, PURIFYING.
akin to B, “cleannes, purity,” is used in the Levitical sense in Heb 9:13, RV, “cleanness.” See PURIFY.
Note: In 2Pe 2:18, some inferior mss. have ontos, “certainly” (AV, “clean”), for oligos, “scarcely” (RV, “just”).