Strong H1740דּוּחַ
to wash
- Transliteration
- dûach
- Pronunciation
- doo'-akh
- Morphology
- Hebrew Verb
Definition
A primitive root; to thrust away; figuratively to cleanse: - cast {out} {purge} wash.
Detailed definition
1) to rinse, cleanse away by rinsing, cast out, purge, wash, washing
1a) (Hiphil)
1a1) to rinse
1a2) to cleanse (by washing) (fig.)
1a) (Hiphil)
1a1) to rinse
1a2) to cleanse (by washing) (fig.)
In the Bible
Strong H1740 appears in 4 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- wash2
- cast1
- purge1
First verses
- 2 Chronicles 4:6He made also ten lavers, and put five on the right hand, and five on the left, to wash in them: such things as they offered for the burnt offering they washed in them; but the sea was for the priests to wash in.
- Isaiah 4:4When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.
- Jeremiah 51:34Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicates, he hath cast me out.
- Ezekiel 40:38And the chambers and the entries thereof were by the posts of the gates, where they washed the burnt offering.