Strong G2513καθαρός
clean
- Transliteration
- katharos
- Pronunciation
- kath-ar-os'
- Morphology
- Greek Adjective
Definition
Of uncertain affinity;
clean (literally or figuratively): - clean clear pure.
clean (literally or figuratively): - clean clear pure.
Detailed definition
καθαρός, -ά, -όν
[in LXX chiefly for טָהוֹר;]
pure, clean.
1. Physically: Mat.23:26 27:59, Jhn.13:10-11 (fig.), Jhn.15:3 (figuratively, as of a vine cleansed by pruning), Heb.10:22, Rev.15:6 19:8, 14 21:18, 21.
2. Ceremonially: Luk.11:41, Rom.14:20, Tit.1:15.
3. Ethically;
__(a) of persons: Jhn.13:16, Act.18:6, Tit.1:15; ό κ. τῇ καρδίᾳ (καθαρὸς χεῖρας, Hdt., i, 35), Mat.5:8; before ἀπό (cl. with genitive simp.; ΒΙ., § 36, 11; Deiss., BS, 196; MM, Exp., xv), Act.20:26;
__(b) of things: καρδία, 1Ti.1:6, 2Ti.2:22; συνείδησις, 1Ti.3:9, 2Ti.1:3; θρησκεία, Jas.1:27.†
SYN.: see: ἁγνός. (AS)
[in LXX chiefly for טָהוֹר;]
pure, clean.
1. Physically: Mat.23:26 27:59, Jhn.13:10-11 (fig.), Jhn.15:3 (figuratively, as of a vine cleansed by pruning), Heb.10:22, Rev.15:6 19:8, 14 21:18, 21.
2. Ceremonially: Luk.11:41, Rom.14:20, Tit.1:15.
3. Ethically;
__(a) of persons: Jhn.13:16, Act.18:6, Tit.1:15; ό κ. τῇ καρδίᾳ (καθαρὸς χεῖρας, Hdt., i, 35), Mat.5:8; before ἀπό (cl. with genitive simp.; ΒΙ., § 36, 11; Deiss., BS, 196; MM, Exp., xv), Act.20:26;
__(b) of things: καρδία, 1Ti.1:6, 2Ti.2:22; συνείδησις, 1Ti.3:9, 2Ti.1:3; θρησκεία, Jas.1:27.†
SYN.: see: ἁγνός. (AS)
In the Bible
Strong G2513 appears in 24 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- pure15
- clean9
- clear1
First verses
- Matthew 5:8Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
- Matthew 23:26Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.
- Matthew 27:59And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth,
- Luke 11:41But rather give alms of such things as ye have; and, behold, all things are clean unto you.
- John 13:10Jesus saith to him, He that is washed needeth not save to wash his feet, but is clean every whit: and ye are clean, but not all.
- John 13:11For he knew who should betray him; therefore said he, Ye are not all clean.
- John 15:3Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.
- Acts 18:6And when they opposed themselves, and blasphemed, he shook his raiment, and said unto them, Your blood be upon your own heads; I am clean: from henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles.
- Acts 20:26Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men.
- Romans 14:20For meat destroy not the work of God. All things indeed are pure; but it is evil for that man who eateth with offence.
- 1 Timothy 1:5Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:
- 1 Timothy 3:9Holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.
- 2 Timothy 1:3I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day;
- 2 Timothy 2:22Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
- Titus 1:15Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.
- Hebrews 10:22Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
- James 1:27Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
- 1 Peter 1:22Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
- Revelation 15:6And the seven angels came out of the temple, having the seven plagues, clothed in pure and white linen, and having their breasts girded with golden girdles.
- Revelation 19:8And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
κᾰθᾰρ-ός, ά, όν,
Doric dialect καθαρός [Refs 5th c.AD+ (“Tab.Heracl.” 1.103, 5th-6th c.AD: Orphica “Fragmenta” 32c. 1)], Aeolic dialect κόθ- [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus “Supp.” 7.3)]; compare ἀνακαθαίρω, κάθαρσις:
1 physically clean, spotless (not in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad”), εἵματα 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 6.61, 7th c.BC: Archilochus Lyricus 12, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Cyclops” 35, 562, etc.)]; of persons, cleanly, κ. περὶ ἐσθῆτα [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Virtutibus et Vitiis” 1250b28, compare “Rh.” 1416a23 (nisi to be read καθάριος).)]
2 clear of admixture, clear, pure, especially of water, Βορυσθένης ῥέει καθαρὸς παρὰ θολεροῖσι [LXX+5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.53; κ. ὕδατα 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 209 (_anapaest meter_); ὕδωρ κ. ζῶν LXX.Num.5.17; δρόσοι 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 96 (_anapaest meter_); κ. καὶ διαφανῆ ὑδάτια 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 229b; οὖρον 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἐπιδημίαι” 1.3; διαχώρημα [prev. author] “Coac.” 640)]; κ. φάος, φέγγος, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 6.14, 9.90; πνεῦμα κ. οὐρανοῦ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 867; κ. ἄρτος 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.40)]; of white bread, Wilcken [LXX+3rd c.BC+ (“Chr.” 30i17 (3rd-2nd c.BC), LXX.Jdt.10.5, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 6.482, 19.137)]; ἄλευρον κ. [Refs (Diocl.fragment 139)]; χρυσίον, ἀργύριον -ώτατον, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.166, compare 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 15.36, 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 1.190, etc.; σῖτος 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 18.8; σῖτος κ. ἀπὸ πάντων “PHib.” 1.84 (a). 6 (4th-3rd c.BC): frequently of grain,)]winnowed, πυρὸς κ. ἄδολος [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (“POxy.” 1124.11 (1st c.AD),compare “PTeb.” 93.36 (2nd c.BC))], etc.; of metals, etc., σίδηρος [Refs 5th c.AD+ (“Sammelb.” 4481.13 (5th c.AD))], etc.; ἀρωμάτων, καθαρῶν, λαχάνων, uncertain meaning in [Refs 4th c.AD+ (“PLond.” 2.429.6 (4th c.AD))]; ἄκρατος καὶ κ. νοῦς [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.7.30; χρόαι 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Sensu” 440a5; φωναί [prev. author] “Aud.” 801b28)]; of feelings, unmixed, μῖσος τῆς ἀλλοτρίας φύσεως [Refs 6th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Menexenus” 245d, compare 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 89)]; serene, φρήν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 1120 (Lyric poetry).)]
3 clear of objects, free, ἐν καθαρῷ (i.e. τόπῳ) in an open space, ἐν κ., ὅθι δὴ νεκύων διεφαίνετο χῶρος [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.491; ἐν κ., ὅθι κύματ᾽ ἐπ᾽ ἠϊόνος κλύζεσκον 23.61, compare 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 2.535 (_superlative_))]; πάξαις Ἄλτιν ἐν κ. in a clearing, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 10 (11). 45)]; ἐν κ. βῆναι to leave the way clear, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1575 (Lyric poetry))]; ἐν τῷ κ. οἰκεῖν live in the clear sunshine, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 520d)]; διὰ καθαροῦ ῥέειν, of a river whose course is clear and open, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.202: with)] substantive, κελεύθῳ ἐν κ[Refs 5th c.BC+ (. 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 6.23)]; χῶρος κ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.132; ἐν κ. λειμῶνι 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 26.5)]; ἐν ἡλίῳ κ. in the open sun, opposed to σκιά, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 239c)]; ὥς σφι τὸ ἐμποδὼν ἐγεγόνεε κ. was cleared away, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.183)]; κ. ποιεῖσθαι τὰς ἀρκυστασίας set up the nets in open ground, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 6.6)]; frequently of land, free from weeds, etc., παραδώσω τὸν κλῆρον κ. ἀπὸ θρύου καλάμου ἀγρώστεως κτλ. [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (“PTeb.” 105.59 (2nd c.BC))]; παραδώσω τὰς ἀρούρας κ. ὡς ἔλαβον [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (“BGU” 1018.25 (3rd c.AD): with _genitive_, γλῶσσα καθαρὴ τῶν σημηΐων)] clear of the marks, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.38)]; καθαρὸν τῶν προβόλων, of a fort, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Anabasis” 2.21.7)]; of documents, free from mistakes, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (POxy. 1277.13 (3rd c.AD))]; χειρόγραφον κ. ἀπὸ ἐπιγραφῆς καὶ ἀλείφαδος free from interlineation and erasure, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (“PLond.” 2.178.13 (2nd c.AD).)]
3.b metaphorically, free, clear of debt, liability, etc., κ. ἀπὸ δημοσίων καὶ παντὸς εἴδους [Refs 1st c.AD+ (“BGU” 197.14 (1st c.AD); κ. ἀπό τε ὀφειλῆς καὶ ὑποθήκης καὶ παντὸς διεγγυήματος [prev. work] 112.11 (1st c.AD))]; γῆ κ. ἀπὸ γεωργίας βασιλικῆς [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (“POxy.” 633 (2nd c.AD))]; καθαρὰ ποιῆσαι to give a discharge, [Refs (PAvrom. 1 A 22)]; in moral sense, free from pollution, καθαρῷ θανάτῳ an honourable death, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.462; θάνατον οὐ κ., τὸν δι᾽ ἀγχόνης 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 2.491; ψυχαὶ ἀρηΐφατοι καθαρώτεραι ἢ ἐνὶ νούσοις 1st c.AD(?): Heraclitus 136)]; frequently free from guilt or defilement, pure, χεῖρες [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 313 (_anapaest meter_); καθαρὸς χεῖρας 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.35, 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 5.11, 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.95; κ. παρέχειν τινὰ κατὰ τὸ σῶμα καὶ κατὰ τὴν ψυχήν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 405b)]; ἔρχομαι ἐκ κοθαρῶν κοθαρά Orph[Refs (“fragment” 32c.1, +others)]; of ceremonial purity, καθαρὰ καὶ ἁγνή εἰμι ἀπό τε τῶν ἄλλων τῶν οὐ καθαρευόντων καὶ ἀπ᾽ ἀνδρὸς συνουσίας Jusj. cited in [LXX+4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 59.78, compare “UPZ” 78.28 (2nd c.BC), LXX.Num.8.7, +others; ἀπὸ τάφου καὶ ἐκφορᾶς καθαροί “SIG” 982.9 (2nd c.BC))]; especially of persons purified after pollution, ἱκέτης προσῆλθες κ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 474, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 548, etc.)]; also of things, βωμοί, θύματα, δόμος, μέλαθρα, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 654 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 1163, 1231 (troch.), 693)]: with genitive, clear of or from.. , κ. ἐγκλημάτων [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 2.4.11)]; ἀδικίας, κακῶν, [NT+5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 496d, “Cra.” 404a; ὁ τῶν κακῶν κ. τόπος [prev. author] “Tht.” 177a; κ. τὰς χεῖρας φόνου [prev. author] “Lg.” 864e; Κόρινθον.. ἀποδεῖξαι τῶν μιαιφόνων καθαράν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 4.4.6; κ. εἰμι ἀπὸ τοῦ αἵματος πάντων NT.Act.20.26, compare 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 37.24; κ. ἀπὸ ὅρκου LXX.Gen.24.8)]; ceremonially pure, of food, ὄσπριον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.37)]; of victims, [LXX+2nd c.AD+ (LXX.Gen.7.2, +others, “PGen.” 32.9 (2nd c.AD))], etc.; κ. ἡμέραι, opposed to ἀποφράδες, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 800d.)]
3.c in active sense, purifying, cleansing, λέβης [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 1.26; θέειον 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 24.96.)]
4 of birth, pure, genuine, σπέρμα θεοῦ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 3.15)]; πόλις [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 673)]; τῶν Ἀθηναίων ὅπερ ἐστράτευε καθαρὸν ἐξῆλθε, i.e. were citizens of pure blood, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.8)]; οἱ τῷ γένει μὴ κ. [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ἀθηναίων Πολιτεία” 13.5)]; κ. ἀστοί [Refs 5th c.BC+ (Scholia 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 506)]; καθαρόν a real, genuine saying, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 1015)]; κ. Τίμων a Timon pure and simple, [Refs 4th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Av.” 1549; κ. δοῦλος 4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 9 (glossed by ἀπηκριβωμένος, “Anecdota Graeca - Bekker” 105))]; ζημία κ., of a person, Alciphro 3.21.
5 of language, pure, ὀνόματα, λέξις, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Compositione Verborum” 1, 3; διάλεκτος [prev. author] “Dem.” 5)]; so of writers, [Λυσίας] κ. τὴν ἑρμηνείαν [Refs ([prev. author] “Lys.” 2; [Ξενοφῶν] κ. τοῖς ὀνόμασι [prev. author] “Pomp.” 4)]; also, clear, simple, σεμνὸς καὶ κ. [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th c.AD: Julianus Imperator “Orationes” 2.77a.)]
5.b Grammars, preceded by a vowel, pure, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Dionysius Thrax Grammaticus 635.10, 639.5, Hdn.Gr. 2.930, +others)]; containing a 'pure' syllable, [Refs ([prev. work] 928.)]
6 without blemish, sound, ὁ κ. στρατός, τὸ κ. τοῦ στρατοῦ, the sound portion of the army, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.211, 4.135; see above 4.)]
7 clear, exact, ἂν κ. ὦσιν αἱ ψῆφοι if the accounts are exactly balanced, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.227 (sed compare καθαιρέω 11.5).)]
II adverb purely, ἁγνῶς καὶ καθαρῶς [Refs 8th c.BC+ (“hymnus ad Apollinem” 121, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 337)]: comparative -ωτέρως[Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD: Porphyrius Tyrius Philosophus “de Abstinentia - Porphyrii Opuscula” 2.44.)]
II.2 of birth, κ. γεγονέναι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.147; αἱ κ. Ἑλληνίδες 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 1.112, compare 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Rh. Pr.” 24.)]
II.3 with clean hands, honestly, σὺν δίκῃ.. καὶ κ. [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 198)]; δικαίως καὶ κ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 9.62; κ. τε καὶ μετρίως τὸν βίον διεξελθεῖν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 108c.)]
II.4 clearly, plainly, λέγειν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 631, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Rhesus” 35 (_anapaest meter_); λέξις κ. καὶ ἀκριβῶς ἔχουσα 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 5.4; κ. γνῶναι 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 1045, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 66e; εἴσεσθαι [prev. passage]; καθαρώτατα ἀποδεῖξαι [prev. author] “Cra.” 426b.)]
II.5 of language, purely, correctly, -ώτερον διαλέγεσθαι [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.1116e, compare 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Im.” 15.)]
II.6 entirely, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 591; κ. τις ὢν ἀόργητος 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Ir.” p.71 W.; κ. ἐς ἐφήβους τελεῖν 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 36.25, compare “Codex Justinianus [4th-6th c.AD]” 1.4.34.9: _superlative_ -ώτατα)] in its purest form, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “de Pietate - Herkulanische Studien” 66.)]
Doric dialect καθαρός [Refs 5th c.AD+ (“Tab.Heracl.” 1.103, 5th-6th c.AD: Orphica “Fragmenta” 32c. 1)], Aeolic dialect κόθ- [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus “Supp.” 7.3)]; compare ἀνακαθαίρω, κάθαρσις:
1 physically clean, spotless (not in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad”), εἵματα 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 6.61, 7th c.BC: Archilochus Lyricus 12, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Cyclops” 35, 562, etc.)]; of persons, cleanly, κ. περὶ ἐσθῆτα [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Virtutibus et Vitiis” 1250b28, compare “Rh.” 1416a23 (nisi to be read καθάριος).)]
2 clear of admixture, clear, pure, especially of water, Βορυσθένης ῥέει καθαρὸς παρὰ θολεροῖσι [LXX+5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.53; κ. ὕδατα 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 209 (_anapaest meter_); ὕδωρ κ. ζῶν LXX.Num.5.17; δρόσοι 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 96 (_anapaest meter_); κ. καὶ διαφανῆ ὑδάτια 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 229b; οὖρον 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἐπιδημίαι” 1.3; διαχώρημα [prev. author] “Coac.” 640)]; κ. φάος, φέγγος, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 6.14, 9.90; πνεῦμα κ. οὐρανοῦ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 867; κ. ἄρτος 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.40)]; of white bread, Wilcken [LXX+3rd c.BC+ (“Chr.” 30i17 (3rd-2nd c.BC), LXX.Jdt.10.5, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 6.482, 19.137)]; ἄλευρον κ. [Refs (Diocl.fragment 139)]; χρυσίον, ἀργύριον -ώτατον, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.166, compare 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 15.36, 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 1.190, etc.; σῖτος 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 18.8; σῖτος κ. ἀπὸ πάντων “PHib.” 1.84 (a). 6 (4th-3rd c.BC): frequently of grain,)]winnowed, πυρὸς κ. ἄδολος [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (“POxy.” 1124.11 (1st c.AD),compare “PTeb.” 93.36 (2nd c.BC))], etc.; of metals, etc., σίδηρος [Refs 5th c.AD+ (“Sammelb.” 4481.13 (5th c.AD))], etc.; ἀρωμάτων, καθαρῶν, λαχάνων, uncertain meaning in [Refs 4th c.AD+ (“PLond.” 2.429.6 (4th c.AD))]; ἄκρατος καὶ κ. νοῦς [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.7.30; χρόαι 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Sensu” 440a5; φωναί [prev. author] “Aud.” 801b28)]; of feelings, unmixed, μῖσος τῆς ἀλλοτρίας φύσεως [Refs 6th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Menexenus” 245d, compare 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 89)]; serene, φρήν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 1120 (Lyric poetry).)]
3 clear of objects, free, ἐν καθαρῷ (i.e. τόπῳ) in an open space, ἐν κ., ὅθι δὴ νεκύων διεφαίνετο χῶρος [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.491; ἐν κ., ὅθι κύματ᾽ ἐπ᾽ ἠϊόνος κλύζεσκον 23.61, compare 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 2.535 (_superlative_))]; πάξαις Ἄλτιν ἐν κ. in a clearing, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 10 (11). 45)]; ἐν κ. βῆναι to leave the way clear, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1575 (Lyric poetry))]; ἐν τῷ κ. οἰκεῖν live in the clear sunshine, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 520d)]; διὰ καθαροῦ ῥέειν, of a river whose course is clear and open, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.202: with)] substantive, κελεύθῳ ἐν κ[Refs 5th c.BC+ (. 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 6.23)]; χῶρος κ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.132; ἐν κ. λειμῶνι 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 26.5)]; ἐν ἡλίῳ κ. in the open sun, opposed to σκιά, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 239c)]; ὥς σφι τὸ ἐμποδὼν ἐγεγόνεε κ. was cleared away, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.183)]; κ. ποιεῖσθαι τὰς ἀρκυστασίας set up the nets in open ground, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 6.6)]; frequently of land, free from weeds, etc., παραδώσω τὸν κλῆρον κ. ἀπὸ θρύου καλάμου ἀγρώστεως κτλ. [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (“PTeb.” 105.59 (2nd c.BC))]; παραδώσω τὰς ἀρούρας κ. ὡς ἔλαβον [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (“BGU” 1018.25 (3rd c.AD): with _genitive_, γλῶσσα καθαρὴ τῶν σημηΐων)] clear of the marks, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.38)]; καθαρὸν τῶν προβόλων, of a fort, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Anabasis” 2.21.7)]; of documents, free from mistakes, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (POxy. 1277.13 (3rd c.AD))]; χειρόγραφον κ. ἀπὸ ἐπιγραφῆς καὶ ἀλείφαδος free from interlineation and erasure, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (“PLond.” 2.178.13 (2nd c.AD).)]
3.b metaphorically, free, clear of debt, liability, etc., κ. ἀπὸ δημοσίων καὶ παντὸς εἴδους [Refs 1st c.AD+ (“BGU” 197.14 (1st c.AD); κ. ἀπό τε ὀφειλῆς καὶ ὑποθήκης καὶ παντὸς διεγγυήματος [prev. work] 112.11 (1st c.AD))]; γῆ κ. ἀπὸ γεωργίας βασιλικῆς [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (“POxy.” 633 (2nd c.AD))]; καθαρὰ ποιῆσαι to give a discharge, [Refs (PAvrom. 1 A 22)]; in moral sense, free from pollution, καθαρῷ θανάτῳ an honourable death, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.462; θάνατον οὐ κ., τὸν δι᾽ ἀγχόνης 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 2.491; ψυχαὶ ἀρηΐφατοι καθαρώτεραι ἢ ἐνὶ νούσοις 1st c.AD(?): Heraclitus 136)]; frequently free from guilt or defilement, pure, χεῖρες [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 313 (_anapaest meter_); καθαρὸς χεῖρας 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.35, 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 5.11, 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.95; κ. παρέχειν τινὰ κατὰ τὸ σῶμα καὶ κατὰ τὴν ψυχήν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 405b)]; ἔρχομαι ἐκ κοθαρῶν κοθαρά Orph[Refs (“fragment” 32c.1, +others)]; of ceremonial purity, καθαρὰ καὶ ἁγνή εἰμι ἀπό τε τῶν ἄλλων τῶν οὐ καθαρευόντων καὶ ἀπ᾽ ἀνδρὸς συνουσίας Jusj. cited in [LXX+4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 59.78, compare “UPZ” 78.28 (2nd c.BC), LXX.Num.8.7, +others; ἀπὸ τάφου καὶ ἐκφορᾶς καθαροί “SIG” 982.9 (2nd c.BC))]; especially of persons purified after pollution, ἱκέτης προσῆλθες κ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 474, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 548, etc.)]; also of things, βωμοί, θύματα, δόμος, μέλαθρα, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 654 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 1163, 1231 (troch.), 693)]: with genitive, clear of or from.. , κ. ἐγκλημάτων [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 2.4.11)]; ἀδικίας, κακῶν, [NT+5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 496d, “Cra.” 404a; ὁ τῶν κακῶν κ. τόπος [prev. author] “Tht.” 177a; κ. τὰς χεῖρας φόνου [prev. author] “Lg.” 864e; Κόρινθον.. ἀποδεῖξαι τῶν μιαιφόνων καθαράν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 4.4.6; κ. εἰμι ἀπὸ τοῦ αἵματος πάντων NT.Act.20.26, compare 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 37.24; κ. ἀπὸ ὅρκου LXX.Gen.24.8)]; ceremonially pure, of food, ὄσπριον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.37)]; of victims, [LXX+2nd c.AD+ (LXX.Gen.7.2, +others, “PGen.” 32.9 (2nd c.AD))], etc.; κ. ἡμέραι, opposed to ἀποφράδες, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 800d.)]
3.c in active sense, purifying, cleansing, λέβης [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 1.26; θέειον 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 24.96.)]
4 of birth, pure, genuine, σπέρμα θεοῦ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 3.15)]; πόλις [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 673)]; τῶν Ἀθηναίων ὅπερ ἐστράτευε καθαρὸν ἐξῆλθε, i.e. were citizens of pure blood, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.8)]; οἱ τῷ γένει μὴ κ. [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ἀθηναίων Πολιτεία” 13.5)]; κ. ἀστοί [Refs 5th c.BC+ (Scholia 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 506)]; καθαρόν a real, genuine saying, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 1015)]; κ. Τίμων a Timon pure and simple, [Refs 4th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Av.” 1549; κ. δοῦλος 4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 9 (glossed by ἀπηκριβωμένος, “Anecdota Graeca - Bekker” 105))]; ζημία κ., of a person, Alciphro 3.21.
5 of language, pure, ὀνόματα, λέξις, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Compositione Verborum” 1, 3; διάλεκτος [prev. author] “Dem.” 5)]; so of writers, [Λυσίας] κ. τὴν ἑρμηνείαν [Refs ([prev. author] “Lys.” 2; [Ξενοφῶν] κ. τοῖς ὀνόμασι [prev. author] “Pomp.” 4)]; also, clear, simple, σεμνὸς καὶ κ. [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th c.AD: Julianus Imperator “Orationes” 2.77a.)]
5.b Grammars, preceded by a vowel, pure, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Dionysius Thrax Grammaticus 635.10, 639.5, Hdn.Gr. 2.930, +others)]; containing a 'pure' syllable, [Refs ([prev. work] 928.)]
6 without blemish, sound, ὁ κ. στρατός, τὸ κ. τοῦ στρατοῦ, the sound portion of the army, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.211, 4.135; see above 4.)]
7 clear, exact, ἂν κ. ὦσιν αἱ ψῆφοι if the accounts are exactly balanced, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.227 (sed compare καθαιρέω 11.5).)]
II adverb purely, ἁγνῶς καὶ καθαρῶς [Refs 8th c.BC+ (“hymnus ad Apollinem” 121, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 337)]: comparative -ωτέρως[Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD: Porphyrius Tyrius Philosophus “de Abstinentia - Porphyrii Opuscula” 2.44.)]
II.2 of birth, κ. γεγονέναι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.147; αἱ κ. Ἑλληνίδες 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 1.112, compare 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Rh. Pr.” 24.)]
II.3 with clean hands, honestly, σὺν δίκῃ.. καὶ κ. [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 198)]; δικαίως καὶ κ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 9.62; κ. τε καὶ μετρίως τὸν βίον διεξελθεῖν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 108c.)]
II.4 clearly, plainly, λέγειν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 631, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Rhesus” 35 (_anapaest meter_); λέξις κ. καὶ ἀκριβῶς ἔχουσα 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 5.4; κ. γνῶναι 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 1045, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 66e; εἴσεσθαι [prev. passage]; καθαρώτατα ἀποδεῖξαι [prev. author] “Cra.” 426b.)]
II.5 of language, purely, correctly, -ώτερον διαλέγεσθαι [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.1116e, compare 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Im.” 15.)]
II.6 entirely, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 591; κ. τις ὢν ἀόργητος 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Ir.” p.71 W.; κ. ἐς ἐφήβους τελεῖν 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 36.25, compare “Codex Justinianus [4th-6th c.AD]” 1.4.34.9: _superlative_ -ώτατα)] in its purest form, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “de Pietate - Herkulanische Studien” 66.)]