zach · pure

What it means

zach (זַךְ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “pure”.

Clean, unmixed.

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. With nothing to soil or mix it; also an upright conduct.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• pure ×9
• clean ×2

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Exodus×2
• Leviticus×2
• Job×4
• Proverbs×3

• Exodus 27:20

  And you shall command the sons of Israel that they bring you pure olive oil, beaten, for the light, to make burn a lamp continually.

• Exodus 30:34

  YHWH said to Moses, “Take for yourself fragrant spices: resin, onycha, and galbanum, fragrant spices with pure frankincense; in equal parts it shall be.

• Leviticus 24:2

  “Command the sons of Israel to bring you pure oil of olives, beaten, for the light, to make a lamp burn continually.

• Leviticus 24:7

  And you shall put pure frankincense on each row, and it shall be for the bread as a memorial portion, a fire offering to YHWH.

• Job 8:6

  if you are pure and upright, surely now he will rouse himself for you and restore the dwelling of your righteousness.

• Job 11:4

  You say, ‘My teaching is pure, and I have been spotless in your eyes.’

• Job 16:17

  although there is no violence in my palms, and my prayer is pure.

• Job 33:9

  ‘Pure I am, without transgression; spotless I am, and there is no iniquity in me.

• Proverbs 16:2

  All the ways of a man are clean in his eyes, but YHWH weighs the spirits.

• Proverbs 20:11

  Even by his deeds a youth makes himself known, whether clean and whether upright is his work.

• Proverbs 21:8

  Twisted is the way of a guilty man, but the pure, upright is his work.