thora · purification

What it means

thora (טׇהֳרָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “purification”.

The passage from unclean to clean, and the time it lasts.

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. Becoming fit again under the law.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• purification ×11
• cleansing ×3
• purity ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Leviticus×10
• Numbers×1
• 1 Chronicles×1
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Nehemiah×1
• Ezekiel×1

• Leviticus 12:4

  She shall remain thirty days and three days in the blood of purification; she shall not touch any holy thing and she shall not come into the sanctuary until the days of her purification are completed.

• Leviticus 12:5

  But if she gives birth to a female, she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her menstruation; and she shall remain sixty days and six days in the blood of purification.

• Leviticus 12:6

  When the days of her purification are completed, for a son or for a daughter, she shall bring a lamb a year old for a burnt offering and a young pigeon or a turtledove for a sin offering, to the entrance of the tent of meeting, to the priest.

• Leviticus 13:7

  But if the eruption spreads widely in the skin after he has shown himself to the priest for his purification, he shall show himself a second time to the priest.

• Leviticus 13:35

  But if the ringworm spreads widely in the skin after his purification,

• Leviticus 14:2

  “This shall be the instruction for the leper on the day of his purification: he shall be brought to the priest.

• Leviticus 14:23

  On the eighth day for his purification he shall bring them to the priest, to the entrance of the tent of meeting, before YHWH.

• Leviticus 14:32

  This is the instruction for one who has a leprous sore, whose means do not reach for his purification.”

• Leviticus 15:13

  And when the man with the discharge becomes clean from his discharge, he shall count for himself seven days for his cleansing, and wash his garments and bathe his body in living water, and he shall be clean.

• Numbers 6:9

  And if someone dies beside him very suddenly and makes unclean his consecrated head, he shall shave his head on the day of his cleansing; on the seventh day he shall shave it.

• 1 Chronicles 23:28

  For their post was at the side of the sons of Aaron for the service of the house of YHWH, over the courts and over the chambers, and over the purification of every holy thing, and the work of the service of the house of Elohim,

• 2 Chronicles 30:19

  everyone who has set his heart to seek Elohim, YHWH, the Elohim of his fathers, even though it is not according to the purity of the sanctuary.”

• Nehemiah 12:45

  And they kept the charge of their Elohim and the charge of the purification, and the singers and the gatekeepers, according to the commandment of David and of Solomon his son.

• Ezekiel 44:26

  And after his cleansing they shall count seven days for him.

And 1 more times.