katharizō · cleanse, purify

What it means

katharizō (καθαρίζω) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “cleanse, purify”.

To cleanse, purify; of a leper, to heal him and declare him clean.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To make something spotless, or pronounce it fit.
2. To heal a leper.
3. To cleanse the heart from sin.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• clean ×5
• cleanse ×4
• be made clean ×3
• cleansed ×3
• make clean ×3
• purified ×3
• are cleansed ×2
• has cleansed ×2
• purify ×2
• was cleansed ×2
• others ×2

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×7
• Mark×4
• Luke×7
• Acts×3
• 2 Corinthians×1
• Ephesians×1
• Titus×1
• Hebrews×4
• James×1
• 1 John×2

• Matthew 8:2

  And look, a leper came and was bowing down before him, saying, “Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean.”

• Matthew 8:3

  And stretching out his hand, he touched him, saying, “I am willing; be made clean.” And at once his leprosy was cleansed.

• Matthew 10:8

  Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, drive out demons. Freely you received; freely give.

• Matthew 11:5

  the blind receive their sight and the lame walk, lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear, and the dead are raised, and the poor have good news proclaimed to them.

• Matthew 23:25

  Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you clean the outside of the cup and of the dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.

• Matthew 23:26

  Blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of the dish, so that the outside of it may also become clean.

• Mark 1:40

  And a man with leprosy comes to him, begging him and kneeling, and saying to him, “If you are willing, you can make me clean.”

• Mark 1:41

  And becoming angry, he stretched out his hand and touched him and says to him, “I am willing; be made clean.”

• Mark 1:42

  And at once the leprosy left him, and he was made clean.

• Mark 7:19

  because it does not go into his heart but into the stomach, and goes out into the latrine?” —declaring clean all foods.

• Luke 4:27

  And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, and none of them was cleansed, except Naaman the Syrian.”

• Luke 5:12

  And it happened, while he was in one of the towns, look, there was a man full of leprosy; and when he saw Jesus, he fell on his face and begged him, saying, “Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean.”

• Luke 5:13

  And stretching out his hand, he touched him, saying, “I am willing; be made clean.” And at once the leprosy left him.

• Luke 7:22

  And he answered and said to them, “Go and report to John what you have seen and heard: the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, the poor have the good news proclaimed to them.

• Luke 11:39

  But the Lord said to him, “Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and of the dish, but your inside is full of greed and wickedness.

• Luke 17:14

  And seeing them, he said to them, “Go and show yourselves to the priests.” And it happened that as they were going, they were cleansed.

• Luke 17:17

  And Jesus answered and said, “Were not the ten cleansed? But the nine, where are they?

• Acts 10:15

  And a voice came to him again a second time: “What God has cleansed, you must not call profane.”

• Acts 11:9

  But a voice answered a second time from heaven, ‘What God has cleansed, you must not call profane.’

• Acts 15:9

  and he made no distinction between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.

• 2 Corinthians 7:1

  Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of flesh and spirit, completing holiness in the fear of God.

• Ephesians 5:26

  so that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,

• Titus 2:14

  who gave himself for us so that he might redeem us from all lawlessness and purify for himself a people of his own, zealous for good works.

• Hebrews 9:14

  how much more will the blood of the Messiah, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to worship the living God!

• Hebrews 9:22

  And according to the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.

• Hebrews 9:23

  It was necessary, then, for the copies of the things in the heavens to be purified with these rites, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

• Hebrews 10:2

  Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, because the worshipers, once purified, would have no consciousness of sins any longer?

• James 4:8

  Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

• 1 John 1:7

  but if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.

• 1 John 1:9

  If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous, so as to forgive us the sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

And 1 more times.