καθαρός

kaqarov" kaqarov",
kaqarav,
kaqarovn; (akin to Latin castus, incestus, English chaste, chasten; Curtius, sec. 26; Vanicek, p. 177); from Homer down; the Septuagint mostly for r/hf;; clean, pure (free from the admixture or adhesion of anything that soils, adulterates, corrupts); a. physically: ; ; (23); ; ,, and Rec. in ;
crusivon, purified by fire, ,; in a similitude, like a vine cleansed by pruning and so fitted to bear fruit, ;
oJ
leloumevno" ...
kaqarov"
o{lo" (where the idea which Christ expresses figuratively is as follows: `he whose inmost nature has been renovated does not need radical renewal, but only to be cleansed from every several fault into which he may fall through contact with the unrenewed world'), . b. in a levitical sense; clean, i. e. the use of which is not forbidden, imparts no uncleanness:
pavnta
kaqarav, ; . c. ethically; free from corrupt desire, from sin and guilt: ;
uJmei'"
kaqaroiv, (11);
oiJ
kaqaroiv
th'/
kardiva (as respects heart (Winer's Grammar, sec. 31, 6 a.)), (
kaqarov"
cei'ra", Herodotus 1, 35;
katav
tov
sw'ma
kaiv
katav
thvn
yuchvn, Plato, Crat., p. 405 b.); free from every admixture of what is false, sincere,
ejk
kaqara'"
kardiva", ; , and R G in ;
ejn
kaqarav
suneidhvsei, ; ; genuine (joined with
ajmivanto")
qrhskeiva, ; blameless, innocent, . Hebraistically with the addition of
ajpov
tivno", pure from, i. e. unstained with the guilt of, anything (Winer's Grammar, sec. 30, 6 a.; Buttmann, 157f (137f)):
ajpov
tou'
ai{mato", ; Alexandrian LXX, cf. ; ;
kaqara'"
e[cein
tav"
cei'ra"
ajpov
tou'
fovnou, Josephus, Antiquities 4, 8, 16; in classical Greek with a simple genitive, as
fovnou, Plato, legg. 9, p. 864 e.; cf. Passow, under the word, p. 1528{a}; (Liddell and Scott, under the word, 3); K?hner, sec. 421, 4 ii., p. 344. d. in a levitical and ethical sense:
pavnta
kaqarav
uJmi'n, , on which see
e[neimi. (Synonym: see
eijlikrinhv"; cf. Westcott on .)*