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Malachi 3:3
Masoretic Text 1524
King James Bible (Oxford 1769)
Hebrew-English Dictionary
properly to be bright; that {is} (by implication) to be pure (physically {sound} clear: unadulterated; Levitically uncontaminated; morally innocent or holy)
1. to be clean, be pure
a. (Qal)
1. to be clean (physically - of disease)
2. to be clean ceremonially
3. to purify, be clean morally, made clean
b. (Piel)
1. to cleanse, purify 1b
c. physically 1b
d. ceremonially 1b
e. morally
1. to pronounce clean
2. to perform the ceremony of cleansing
f. (Pual) to be cleansed, be pronounced clean
g. (Hithpael)
1. to purify oneself 1d
h. ceremonially 1d
i. morally
1. to present oneself for purification
Hebrew-English Lexicon (BDB) 1906
by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.