kaqarivzw kaqarivzw (Hellenistic for kaqaivrw, which classic writings use); Attic future (cf. Buttmann, 37 (32); Winer's Grammar, sec. 13, 1 c.; WH's Appendix, p. 163) kaqariw' (); aorist ejkaqavrisa (see below); present passive kaqarivzomai; 1 aorist passive ejkaqarivsqhn; perfect passive participle kekaqarismeno" ( T Tr WH; on the forms ejkaqerisqh, T WH in ; (ejkaqerisen, Tr in ; ) and kekaqerismeno" Lachmann in , cf. (Tdf. Proleg., p. 82; WH's Appendix, p. 150); Sturz, De dial. Maced. etc., p. 118; Delitzsch on ; Kr?ger, Part ii. sec. 2, 2, 6, p. 4; (Buttmann, 29 (25f); Winer's Grammar, 43)); (kaqarov"; the Septuagint mostly for rh'fi;1. to make clean, to cleanse; a. from physical stains and dirt: e. g. utensils, (figuratively, ); ; food, ; tina, a leper, to cleanse by curing, f; ; ; ; ; f; ; , (); to remove by cleansing: hJ levpra ejkaqarivsqh, (kaqariei'" tov ai|ma tov ajnaivtion ejx !Israhvl, ; ejkaqarize thvn periv tau'ta sunhvqeian, the custom of marrying heathen women, Josephus, Antiquities 11, 5, 4; kaqairei'n ai|ma, Homer, Iliad 16, 667; cf. ejkkaqaivrw). b. in a moral sense; a. to free from the defilement of sin and from faults; to purify from wickedness: eJautovn ajpov molusmou' sarkov", ; th'/ pivstei tav" kardiva", (kardivan ajpov aJmartiva", ); tav" cei'ra", to abstain in future from wrong-doing, . b. to free from the guilt of sin, to purify: tina ajpov pavsh" aJmartiva", ; (tina ajpov pavsh" ajdikiva", ); thvn suneivdhsin ajpov nekrw'n e[rgwn, ; thvn ejkklhsivan tw'/ loutrw'/ tou' u{dato" (instrumental dative), ; laovn eJautw'/, . g. to consecrate by cleansing or purifying: tiv ejn tivni, dative of instrumentality (Winer's Grammar, 388 (363)), ; equivalent to to consecrate, dedicate, tiv tivni (dative of instrumentality), ibid. 23.2. to pronounce clean in a levitical sense: ; (,,,). (Compare: diakaqarivzw.)*